tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29698883429104683922024-03-05T07:11:38.130-08:00two bugs in a rugtwo bugs in a rugParker & Chelsey DeMillehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04753140257112122115noreply@blogger.comBlogger106125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2969888342910468392.post-15595046557750646072011-11-10T18:04:00.001-08:002011-12-07T09:31:24.529-08:00good news minute [sealed with a Kip]<div style="text-align: center;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">remember these two little lovebirds?</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I don't.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">Just kidding!!!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I totally do.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">It is just amazing to me how <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">busy</span> our lives seem to be these days.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">All of us.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 20px;">{</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 20px;">i tend to jump from A to C to D. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">[parker says it's only C because stress makes me "mean-sassy" instead of "hot-sassy"...</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">whatever that means</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 20px;">]</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 20px;">but B is typically a constant in the equation regardless of the stress-level.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 20px;">I could be lazing away in a Swedish spa for a year-long retreat and still be craving bapples.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">it's the hippo in me...</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 20px;">}</span></div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I wonder sometimes if we'd even be able to out-swim the </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>tides of life</b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> that so frequently test the bonds of our friendships by sweeping one couple or another </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><i>off the social beach</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> and </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">out to sea</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> if we were neighbors.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">As much as my perpetually optimistic <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">[and oftentimes unrealistic]</span> alter-ego attempts to answer that with a yes, the more rational part of my brain takes over and offers up a resounding <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">"<b>no.</b>"</span> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">{considering our track record with the friendlings that live a whole half-mile away is about as great as the Sparks girls' driving records </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;">—</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">ahem </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;">—</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> nicole, jillian, tiffany, danielle, kayla </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">[who is simply guilty by association </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">— I believe I was en route to a certain Abacus Court the day of the infamous bus run-in...]</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 20px;">and maybe me too.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;"><i>maybe</i>.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;">:) </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">anyway, this busyness of life has a way of sending me through a spiral of emotions.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">poor parker...</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">It begins with </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large; line-height: 20px;"><i>well-intentioned denial</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">"We just saw </span><i style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">so-and-so</i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"> in October right baby? October may </span><i style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">feel</i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"> far away but it really isn't. I mean, with how fast these years go, it'll be here again before we know it!"</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"Plus, we've been friends </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">forever</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">."</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 20px;">{Parker: "sometimes even forever friends grow apart Chels..."}</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><b>"</b></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><b>not us.</b></span></span><b style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></b></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">Our friendships will transcend time and space and everything in between.</span></div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">We're not the friends that have to chat every single day to keep the maintain </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">the </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large; line-height: 20px;">b</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">, the </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large; line-height: 20px;">f</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">, or the other </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large; line-height: 20px;">f</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> in </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">BFF</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">We have a kind of </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">F-ESP</span> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 20px;">{friend-ESP}</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">We <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><b>know</b></span> we love each other."</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">Which segues to </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 20px;"><b>skepticism</b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"> and a slew of </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 20px;"><b>irrational assumptions & insecurities</b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">"Oh man Park </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">— I don't know. What if they've just been waiting for us to call and are now convinced I am the most terribly self-absorbed, unpredictably flaky, incredibly apathetic friend in the world?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">Oh I bet they just <i>hate</i> me!!!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">wait a minute...</span>"</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">"Friendship <i>is</i> a <i style="font-size: x-large;"><b>two-way street</b> </i>right?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">In which case, why haven't <i>I </i>heard from anybody?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">bums...</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">not like we had any time for that nonsense anyway.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 20px;">unless...</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">"</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">"Oh my goodness!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">We've been replaced.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">Park </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;">— </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">my besties totally have new besties!!!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">{gasp!}</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">How did I let it come to this?"</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">And finally concludes with Parker's attempts to comfort this </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">heartbroken, dejected,inconsolable</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">little bucket of despair.</span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">"</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">I deserve a straight-up </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large; line-height: 20px;">F</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"> in </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">BFF 101</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">."</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">"How could I be so foolish to think our</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"> friendships could self-sustain through such inattentiveness and neglect?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">I </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">could've-should've-would've</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"> done </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">x, y & z</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"> approximately </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">15 - 50 times</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"> more each week.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">I just </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;">—</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"> I just never thought we'd grow apart like this you know?"</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">Whatever happened to best friends </span><i style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"><b>forever</b></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 20px;">{a trembling finger points to an old picture}</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">I don't even know who these people are anymore.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">I mean, they could like Crocs for all I know now.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">or even...</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 20px;">{gasp}</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large; line-height: 20px;">uggs.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">and now </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">we can't ever be friends again...</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">{cue hysteria</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 20px;">}</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">[the end]</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">{i hope you appreciated the melodramatic recounting of these episodes.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">it may or may not be a fully accurate account...}</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Needless to say, my teeny tiny little brain seems to have a knack for sparking ideas that force me to overcome my fears about the status of those friendships that seem to have fallen in the </span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">black abyss</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> of life's busyness and make a call.</span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">These calls typically follow a fairly standard format.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">take my call with Nicole today:</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">"hey!"</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">"hey you! it's been forever!"</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">"i know, right?</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">what've you two been up to?"</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">"nothing really </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 20px;">— just finals craziness.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 20px;"> i'm so over school. how's life for you & parker?"</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">"busy </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">— as always. i think i need to kind of come to terms with that fact. it's seeming to be the adjective i default to whenever anyone asks how we are."</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 20px;">"i know what you mean. i feel like we kind of do the same thing every day."</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">"so no life-altering events?"</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">"nope. you?"</span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">"none that i can think of."</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 20px;">"haha </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 20px;">— we sound so sad...</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 20px;">"</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">"i know...it could be worse though. i could be a hobo living under a bridge by the next time we chat."</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 20px;">"i could see that...</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 20px;">"</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">"hey..."</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 20px;">"bahaha</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 20px;">"</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">aside to parker: "hey bebe! </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><b>we're still friends!"</b></span></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">whatever Parker.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">this is real happiness.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">{as is this...}</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">Long story short, it's okay to be busy</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">because there really is such a thing as BFF's.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">And this girl,</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">I'll have you know,</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">is <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">exactly</span></b> that.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">Which is what brings us here today.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">On </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">December 1, 2011</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">,</span></i></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">Nicole Faye celebrated a very special anniversary. </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Just </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>five</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> months ago,</span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">on a sunny </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>July</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> morning,</span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><b>Nicole</b> was sealed with a <b>Kip</b></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 20px;">{and a kiss}</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">for </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large; line-height: 20px;"><i>time</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"> and all </span><i style="color: #333333; line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">eternity</span></i><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">in the Salt Lake Temple.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">And has spent every blissfully happy day since beaming at the thought that they are,</span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">and forever will be, </span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;">Mr. & Mrs. Kip Andrew Stromberg</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">.</span></i></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">In celebration of this proverbial milestone</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">{and by this I mean marriage.</span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 20px;">sorry kiddos...kudos on the 5-month mark, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 20px;">but let's be honest </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 20px;">— </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 20px;">you still have a ways to go until you secure veteran status.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 20px;">I mean, I would know...</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 20px;">}</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 20px;">:)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">I decided to take a brief glimpse into the lives of these two newlyweds.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">But before I let Kip & Nicole take it away,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">let me just say<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">,</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">I have <i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">never</span></i> seen Nicole look more beautiful than she did on her wedding day.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">And I don't think it had a thing to do with the </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">uncharacteristic volume</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"> in her hair, the </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>perfectly flushed cheeks</b></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"> or the </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><i>subtle shimmer and sparkle</i></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"> surrounding her vibrant green eyes, or even the </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><b>cascades of white chiffon</b></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"> that mirrored her every step.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">no </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 20px;">—</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> I think every ounce of her beauty that day stemmed from a feature that isn't quite as easily achieved.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">{a facet of beauty no hairspray, bronzer or glamorous gown could recreate}</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>happiness</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">I know what it looks like now.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">And I'm convinced it is one of the most beautiful things I've ever seen.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><i>"There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness."</i></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">—</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><b>Lady Marguerite Blessington</b></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">{too true!</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 20px;">This beauty tip will transcend time ladies.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 20px;">my advice</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 20px;">—</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><b><i>Learn</i></b> it. <b><i>Live</i></b> it. <b><i>Love</i></b> it.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 20px;">}</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Congratulations</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-weight: bold;"> </span></i></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Kip & Nicole Stromberg!!!</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I'd wish you two all the happiness in the world,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">but I think it's safe to say you've found it.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">{and thanks again for the exclusive.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">}</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>What's been the hardest thing about these first five months of marriage?</b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">{Nicole}</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"I don't know if this is a lame answer</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">—but just kind of taking on the </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><i>"wife"</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> role. Like being the one who makes the house a home or the little housewife who's on top of all the domestic duties. Ever since we got married I've felt like I needed to be the one doing all those things. I felt this pressure to cook dinner every night and clean the house every week and make everything look perfect</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">—but then I wouldn't and would feel</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"> like this horrible person and wonder why I couldn't do everything. And then, of course, I start to be more realistic and start being like</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">—<i>wait...we're in exactly the same position</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">—w</span><i style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">e both work, we both go to school. Why should I be the one who has to do everything?</i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"> I mean, Kip never expected that </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">at all</i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">. I'd just brought it upon myself because of societal expectations surrounding marriage and whatnot. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">{Why is this so often the case?</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">That new wives [and veterans too] develop an unreasonably guilty conscience for not taking on 120% of the work 100% of the time?</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">It always seems so self-imposed too.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Whoever said we had to be the ones to carry the weight of the world?</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 20px;">It puzzles me...}</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">Anyway, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">so I guess that's been the hardest thing</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">—j</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">ust figuring out my role."</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">{Kip}</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"Having to get up at </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;">six</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> each morning when Nicole gets to sleep in all the time."</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Nicole in the background: "hey!!!"</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Kip: "well you <i>do</i>..."</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Nicole: "you would too if you could."</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Kip: "of course I would!"</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Nicole: "it just makes me sound so lazy..."</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Kip: "well..."</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Nicole: "hey!!!"</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">{fade to laughter}</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>What was the most surprising thing about marriage?</b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">{Nicole}</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"Most surprising? I think the most the surprising thing was like, how easy it was to transition<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">. I guess I always thought of it as being really hard. I like had this idea that I was going to discover all these things that were tough to deal with or hard to adjust to.</span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">actually</span>...that wasn't the most surprising.</span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">{rewind}</span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">The most surprising thing was discovering this whole new side to Kip I hadn't seen before. We spent a lot of time together before so I knew him, but spending every second with him and living together and making decisions together let me see a completely different side to him that I never saw when we were dating."</span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 20px;">{Can you give us an example?}</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">"What's an example...oh! Just that he is the snuggliest person <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><b>ever!!!</b> </span>He was like that when we were dating</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">—like he liked to cuddle and stuff</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">—but now he'll come home from school and cuddle up by me on the couch where I'm doing homework and be like, "Let's just snuggle </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">— like just for a little minute." </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">And I'm like, "I'm busy!" </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">And he's like, "No, we need to snuggle. Just for a minute</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">—t</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">hat's all."</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">He's like an <i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">extreme</span></i> cuddler now. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">It's pretty cute." </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 20px;">{I have to agree.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 20px;">Between nicole's kip and my parker, I'm beginning to see a trend.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 20px;">any other closet cuddlers out there?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 20px;">do tell...}</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">{Kip}</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"Everything people say about marriage </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">— that's kind of how it is. Which means there really haven't been too many surprises.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 20px;">{What most surprised you about Nicole then?}</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">"I didn't know this 'til we were married </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">— but Nicole is definitely not a morning person. If it's before 9 o'clock and there's no alarm set, <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>don't wake her up</b></span>." </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 20px;">{why's that?}</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">"She will be very angry with you."</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Nicole: "hey!!!"</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Chelsey: "no moderating Cole."</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Nicole: "boo..."</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">{not to worry </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 20px;">—</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> I git chu girl.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Parker would say the same thing about me.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I think husbands think that liking sleep like every other human being on this planet and/or not popping up out of bed each morning like a little spring chicken is the equivalent of "not being a morning person."</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">But just because they say it doesn't mean it's true...</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">in this case I kind of think it is though.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">lame...}</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>What would you say is the the funniest thing about marriage?</b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">{Nicole}</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"I think the funniest thing about marriage is that everything they say is </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><b>true!</b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">You <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">do</span></b> stay in on Friday nights because you're too tired and too apathetic to make plans. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">You <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">do</span></b> become each other's best friends. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">And you </span><b style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">do</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> forget what life was like before all this.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Realizing that those things are true and that there are legitimate reasons for all those stereotypes made me laugh. It's like, "oh...<i>that's</i> why." I guess I think it's funny just because I get it now."</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">{Kip}</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"Well, you definitely see a different side of each other. You know, the walls come down and you don't care as much about censoring yourself or putting a face on like you do when you're dating. I mean, Cole's definitely done a lot more dumb things since we've been married than she did while we were dating. Like the other day when she tried to call me a rough snuggler but accidentally called me a</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;"> "</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;">rugly snuffer"</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> instead."</span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 20px;">{I'm guessing you couldn't really take her seriously after she said that.}</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"Not really. That's probably why I kept rugly snuffing her."</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 20px;">{Let's save the elaboration on that one for later.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 20px;">next question...}</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>What is the dumbest thing you two fight about?</b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 20px;">{speaking of dumb...</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 20px;">is anyone else in love with Tiff's face in this photo sequence?}</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 20px;">{</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 20px;">oh how I miss this girl!}</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">{Nicole}</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">"<b>Taylor Swift vs. Carried Underwood</b>"</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 20px;">{That is so dumb.}</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"I know it's dumb </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">— but we fight about it all the time."</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 20px;">{Would you care to share your position?}</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"I like Taylor Swift more than Carrie Underwood. And if you're talking in terms of who is the better all-around musician, it's totally Taylor. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>She writes her own songs. </b></span></i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>She's super popular. </b></span></i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>Everyone loves her. </b></span></i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">He thinks Carrie's better because he's only basing it on voice."</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">{Kip}</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"Let's just say that as a musician, I know every song of Taylor Swift's only consists of about <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><b>three chords</b></span>."</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 20px;">{Do you think you'll ever resolve the fight?}</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"We already have </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">— well kind of. We agreed to disagree and just don't talk about it anymore. Tell me this though, who would you pick?</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 20px;">{I'm going to leave this one open to all of you.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 20px;">I made my decision, but only after changing the question to,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 20px;">"If you could only have one artist on your iPod, who would be on it?"</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 20px;">I was a total fence-sitter 'til I broke it down like that.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 20px;">I could see how it could escalate...}</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Which marriage stereotype have you found to be absolutely true?</b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">{Nicole}</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"Probably the </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;">antisocial</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> thing. I mean, we do stuff </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">— we just don't do it with other people as much anymore. Once you're married, you definitely don't have the social life that you did as a single person. That's why thinking people think married people are so boring. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">except we're not.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;"> </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">We just trade doing things in big groups or parties for things we can do together. Besides, who better to spend the weekend with than your best friend?"</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 20px;">{Do you watch lots of movies?}</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">"Oh yes </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">— we <i>love</i> movies!"</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 20px;">{Classic...}</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">{Kip}</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"Probably that you really have no life </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">— and by that I mean </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;">no social life</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">. You don't have any friends. I mean you do. But you find yourself being lazy on the weekends quite a bit more. I think for guys, once you're married, you start to think, "I've got a girl. I don't have to work for it anymore." It's like the social network's a tool."</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 20px;">{so you're saying we're no longer of use to you?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 20px;">huh Kip?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 20px;">Is that what you're saying?!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 20px;">bahaha.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 20px;">i's keeding.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 20px;">jus' keeding.}</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>What is the best thing about marriage?</b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">{Nicole}</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"I think it's just always having somebody there to support you. They're always there. They're always home. They're always around to make you feel better if you're having a stupid day. I don't know...they're just always <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">there</span>. And you never have to worry because you know they are and always will be."</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">{Kip}</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"Just always being able to <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">see</span> her. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">When I have a hard day, she's the one I get to come home to </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">— and just the thought of that make it that much easier."</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>How do you split the housework? </b></span><b style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">Do you have exclusive ownership over any of the chores?</b><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">{Nicole}</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"It's pretty even actually. He does do the trash though </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">— I </span><i style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">hate</i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> the trash. He has to kill the spiders too. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;">I don't do spiders.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> But ya...I think all the other one's are pretty even. We do the dishes the same; we cook the same. Oh but I do dust. Kip never dusts."</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">{Kip}</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"Well, the garbage is mine. If there's ever a spider to kill, that's mine. That's about it though. We kind of just take turns with all the other stuff.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">"</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Would you say you love each other more now than when you first got married? </b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">And because I already have a good idea of how you'll answer, could you please tell us why that's the case</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">?</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">{Nicole}</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">"Yes!</span> I love him so much more. I think it's because I've seen all these new sides to him and learned so much more about him. Plus it's all good things too. I just love him so much more for it you know?"</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">{Kip}</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"I'd definitely say <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">yes</span>. And I think it's probably because I know her so much better now than I did before. When we were dating, we didn't <i>really</i> know each other. We did, but we didn't. We didn't really have any fights. But now that we've had those, we've grown together, and grown closer because of it. It's cool to find out all those things about her too that validate how good we are for each other. That's really cool actually."</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>How do most of your fights end? </b></span><b style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">How do you resolve the problem?</b><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">{Kip & Nicole}</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"Most of the time we just agree to disagree and then move on. Our arguments are usually over little things that can be overlooked, so that's what we do. We drop it."</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 20px;">{so what about when it's something big?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 20px;">like, you <i>have</i> to<i> </i>make a compromise or concession.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">Like what if your future little boy wanted more than ANYTHING to be a dancer and Nicole was like, "We need to support him honey!"</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">Nicole: "Really? A dancer?"</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">This is my hypothetical. Quiet now.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">anyway...</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">But you're like, "No. If we sign him up for Little League and Junior Jazz he'll forget all about it."</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">But she's adamant that you should just go along with jazz class {not Junior Jazz practice} and support him.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">What do you do then?</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">Kip: "When that time comes</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">— I can't imagine it will, but who knows </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">—</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"> we'll work together to find a good solution. We'll be good."</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">{so much for my attempt at stirring the pot.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">this picture-perfect pair is kind of too perfect...</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">I should've focused my attention on T-Swift & Carrie...}</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Do you have any traditions? </b></span><b style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">Any cute little quirks or routines that are unique to just the two of you?</b><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">{Nicole}</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"We do always take a nap on Sunday. Other than that I don't think we really have any...oh! We have </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><i>the kissing one!</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> If one of us puckers our lips, we have a rule that the other one has to kiss them. Even if they're mad at them. Kip coined the term, "Cole kisses" for the little abrupt ones I give him when I'm mad. He says Cole kisses are the lame kisses haha."</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Kip from the kitchen: "because they are..."</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">{Kip}</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">{can you tell us how the pucker rule came about?}</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"Oh I don't know. I think it was just that Cole wouldn't kiss me so I had to find a way that she would. It started way back when we were dating."</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large; line-height: 20px;"><b>What would you say was your favorite thing about your wedding day?</b></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">{Nicole}</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"I'd have to say sitting together in the temple just before we were sealed just because </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">— I don't know </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">—</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> I was just so nervous and so scared getting ready that morning and I hadn't slept well the night before. But as soon as I was there </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">— as soon as we were together and I could just see him and talk to him and be with him </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">— </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><i>it all went away</i></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">. It was the craziest thing and is definitely one of my favorite memories of that day.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">{Kip}</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"Honestly, everything was great. I think the best part was being around family though. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">That was awesome.</span> Just because Cole has a super solid family and I love my family. H</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">aving all of them there and just being able to be around them all at the same time was great. Oh </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">— and the night of, of course."</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Nicole: "Kip you can't say that!"</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Kip: "but I did..."</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Nicole: "oh my gosh. it's on the record."</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Kip: "and cole in her hot lingerie..."</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Nicole: "Kip!"</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Chelsey: "bahaha </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">—</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> that's on the record too!"</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Nicole: "do <b><i>not</i></b> write that."</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">{not to worry my dear friend,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">nobody reads this far into these posts anyway.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I'll honestly be shocked if <i>you</i> even get this far...}</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">:)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>What is the cutest thing about Kip?</b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">{Nicole}</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"Just that he's always doing sweet little things for me. He'll buy me my favorite candy bar or make me breakfast </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">— </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">just little random things like that. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Wait </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">— I changed my mind. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">The cutest thing about Kip is how he always gets my car door and won't let me walk on the road side of the sidewalk. His <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>chivalry</b></span> I guess. It's nice to know it wasn't just a show while we were dating. He still does it and it's still every bit as sweet."</span><br />
<b style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">What is the cutest thing about Nicole?</b><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">{Kip}</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"That's a hard question because I just feel like everything she does is cute. That's what I would say </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">— just</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>everything</b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">."</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">{Nicole}</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"I admire his <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>optimism</b></span>. Nothing really gets him down and he's always very positive and just happy all the time. You don't see that that often in people."</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">{Kip}</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"Probably just that she makes me want to be <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">better</span></b>. I always want to be better for her and work harder for her. She gives me a reason to want to do it because she <i>is</i> the reason I want to do it </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">— if that makes any sense.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Is there anything you'd like to add?</b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">{Nicole}</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><i><b>"Kip is my favorite and I love him!"</b></i></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Kip: "That's a lie."</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Nicole: "hey!!!"</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">{bahaha}</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">{Kip}</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><b>"Marriage is the best! It's sweet!</b></span> </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">And </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">— </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I don't know. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">There's not much else to say...</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">No need Kip </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">— I think you summed it up right there.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><i>Congratulations again you two!!!</i></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Thank you for giving us all a reason to celebrate each </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">July 1st</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">{according to my Canadian marketing buddy, that's Canada too.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">but I figured that doesn't really count}</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">and thank you for letting us be a part of such a perfect start to your forever!</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>loved</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> seeing you so happy then </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">and just </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">love</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> that you're so happy still.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Oh and Kip </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">— thanks for being such a good BFF to my bestie.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">I hope you know I'm only okay with it because</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">a. I think you're cool and</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">b. I know I'm still technically number one.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">{if you're judging by seniority;</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">which i am...}</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i>My dearest Colie,</i></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i>best. friends. forever.</i></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">remember this picture perfect pair?</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">I've realized they're a tough pair to pin.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">for reals!</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><b>Operation Latest Flame</b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">mission:</span> Track down Jilly's new beau. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">investigate.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> </span></div>
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">interrogate.</span></b></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><i>evaluate.</i></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">subjecting the prospect to the most intense levels of </span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">BFF</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> scrutiny</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">{</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">she's </span><i style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: small;">ours</i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">...</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">until we decide she's <i>yours</i>.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">}</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> That is the official position of </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">the </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Bureau of Forever Friends</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">{No, her father did not hire us.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">And yes, we are the final authority on this.}</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><b>Do not cross us.</b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">It took weeks for us to track the duo down,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">[at a Halloween party no less]</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">only to learn that time had diluted the </span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">BFF</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> endorsement's impact and influence down to </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><i>diddley</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> and </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">squat.</span></i></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>she was smitten.</i></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">And there was not a single thing we could say or do to change her mind.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">If we'd needed to, that is.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Lucky for Aaron </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">— he</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> would've passed.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">{with flying colors too}</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">But do note: T</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">he </span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">BFF</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> doesn't take kindly to those who circumvent our process.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">{We'll be cracking down when Tiff's time comes.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Boys </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">— c</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">onsider yourselves warned.}</span></div>
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<b style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-large;">Operation Mr. Right</b></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">mission:</span> Befriend the boyfriend.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">You.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">will.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">learn.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">to.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">like us.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">and love us!</span></div>
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<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">or </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">else...</span></i></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>"If you wanna be her lover,</i></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>gotta get wit' her friends.</i></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>Make it last forever;</i></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><i style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">friendship </i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">NEVER</span></b><i style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> ends."</i></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">never never ever!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">sorry Aaron;</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">i hate to be the one to tell you this,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">but you are </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">stuck with us.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>I know, I know.</i></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">this can't be real...</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">this can't be happening...</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">you feel so honored...</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">etc. etc. etc.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Being welcomed into the real Kardashian family can be a bit overwhelming.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">{don't worry, we'll keep you for more than 72 hours</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">—</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I mean days.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">}</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">side note: Did anyone else think that the lyrics were "naked lasts forever?"</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">You know you did...</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I know you know you did...</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">and even if you say you didn't I will continue thinking you did.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">[I refuse to be ridin' solo in this shameful bandwagon.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">And no, this does not explain my naughty blogs/lack of censorship.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">That is just a product of who I be peeps</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">—</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">true story...]</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Of course, we met resistance with this phase of the process as well.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Whoever knew nearly-engaged couples could be so elusive?!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">{</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">me? </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Parker? </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: x-small;"><i>never</i>...</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">}</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Luckily, we liked what we saw on the rare occasions we'd seen it.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>they were happy.</i></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">And happy friends make for happy days at the </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>BFF</b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">. </span></div>
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<b style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-large;">Operation Mawwage</b></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">aliases</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">: Edward & Bella Cullen</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">{In Bella's pre-vamp days of course...</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">we tried to tide her over with a witch hat and some botox but she was back to the whole "bite me!" bit about 2 milliseconds after the pic.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Whoever thought early 20-somethings would have such hang-ups with their age?} </span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">wedding?!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">woo-hoo-hoo!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">{the </span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">BFF</span></b> <i style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">loves </i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">weddings...</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">mostly because the </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>BFF</b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> loves real love.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">and wedding plans.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">and married friends.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">and seeing their </span><b style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">BFF</b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">'s finding, finishing, and becoming all of the above!}</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Needless to say, the</span><b style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">bride </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">and </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">groom </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">didn't need our help.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">The happy couple was <i>more</i> than ready to get the {Mr. and Mrs. Prado} show on the road, </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">riding off into the Rancho San Rafael sunset toward the start of their forever together.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>Congratulations</i></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>Mr. & Mrs. Aaron Michael Prado!!!</i></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">{your wedding was every bit as sweet and perfect as the pair of you}</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">don't believe me?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">check it:</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 20px;">Jillian Rose Proulx</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">and</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-style: italic;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Aaron Michael Prado</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">were sealed for</span> </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">time</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif;"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">and all</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><i>eternity</i></span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">on Friday, the fifth of August</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">Two thousand and eleven</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">{note: a number of the fabulous photos in this post are the work of <i>KayLynne Kroshus Photography.</i></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">{I'm praying the endorsement will mask the major copyright infringements.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>so sorry</i>.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>beautiful</i> work.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">not to mention the <i>handsome</i> couple.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">ow! ow!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">check it...}</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">We loved every minute of this day </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">and love every minute of the forever friendship we have with these two.</span></div>
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<i style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: small;">that is,</i><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">:)</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">{FYI Life: We'd all be totally okay with two seconds of free time.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">three?</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">that's debatable.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">but two we could <i>totally</i> do.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Think about it please...</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">we miss each of-ver!}</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>I just love you to pieces</i></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">{even if he is your new BFF...}.</span><br />
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</div>Parker & Chelsey DeMillehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04753140257112122115noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2969888342910468392.post-32801239097065728902011-11-06T01:52:00.000-07:002011-11-06T11:41:43.020-08:00good news minute [DeMille en Chile]<div style="text-align: center;">
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Well all you heartbroken boys can stop wondering why she hasn't returned your calls for the last seven months...</div>
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Hermana DeMille has been <b>WAY </b>south of our borders serving a mission in <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Chile</b></span>.</div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">{As for anyone waiting 7+ months for that call,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">I don't know what to say other than that it's likely she just wasn't that into you.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Don't take it too personally</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal;">—</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">I'm sure you're not <i><b>totally</b></i> unattractive, socially challenged and creepy.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">You're likely just one or two of the three...</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">}</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">With that said, I would like to take this moment to acknowledge how </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>absolutely</b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">positively</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">, </span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">120-percent</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"> [plus some]</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> </span><b style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">right</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> I was in my prediction that Kaitlin would be an </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">incredible</span> </i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">missionary.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">[then again, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">when am I not absolutely, positively, 120-percent right about something?</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">right sweetie?]</span></div>
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seriously...</div>
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my spiritual giant of a sister-in-law had <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><b>five</b></span> convert baptisms this weekend.</div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">I had to resort to using an image to do it justice.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">The bump in font size just wasn't cuttin' it.}</span></div>
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I realize she is simply acting on inspiration and sharing the Gospel with those the Lord has prepared to receive it,</div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">and I know she'd be so embarrassed to see me announcing this to the world</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">{especially now that she's spent the last 7 months of her life learning and teaching humility...</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">not to worry,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">I'm the top priority pupil on her post-mission list}</span></div>
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yet I still cannot keep to myself when it comes to expressing how incredibly proud of her I am.</div>
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I <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">know</span></b> her testimony has had an impact on these people.</div>
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I am <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">certain</span></b> they've grown in their faith through her example.</div>
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I am <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>convinced</b> </span>her genuine love for those she teaches has helped them better understand their Savior's love.</div>
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And I am <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">positive<i> </i></span></b>they have been inspired by her love for the Lord and His Gospel and the sacrifices she's made to be there to share it.</div>
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How am I <i>positive</i>?</div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Because </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>i</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> am inspired anytime I think of the lives she is blessing and forever changing because of her </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>decision</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i> </i>to be that instrument in the Lord's hands.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"> </span>I could go on and on and on,</div>
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but all you really need to know is that we are so, <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">so</span></b> proud and thankful, </div>
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in this month of November, </div>
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for missionaries like Kaitlin who dedicate this precious time in their lives to sharing and spreading this message of hope and happiness.</div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">[My family forever changed because of this missionary effort.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">You can learn why <a href="http://mormon.org/" target="_blank">here</a> and <a href="http://lds.org/?lang=eng" target="_blank">here</a>.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">And <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ddXNF29goo" target="_blank">here</a> too!]</span></div>
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In case you'd like a recap on Kaitlin's mission so you can be up to speed when you write her and tell her how fabulous she is,</div>
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here's a few fun facts about the DeMille in Chile.</div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">It's more fun, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">and makes my title seem more clever, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">if you pronounce it {DeMee-lay} in {Chee-lay}.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">[like the natives!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">get it?!]</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">note: My narcissistic alter-ego may have slipped a bit of commentary into the post as well...</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">whatever will we do with me?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">:)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">happy reading!!!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">[updates]</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Kaitlin is serving in the </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><i>Chile </i><i>Vi<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 30px;">ñ</span>a del Mar</i></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> mission which covers about 428 km. </span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">[Which is about 265 miles for all of us Americans or</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">the distance from Salt Lake to Cedar City for anyone like me who has no concept of distance, space, or time unless it's quantified in terms of people, places or things I <i>do </i>know and understand.]</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">She spent her first 3 transfers </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">in a town called </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">San Francisco</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">[not to be confused with the SF in California's Bay Area]</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">and just transferred 7 hours north to </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">La Serena</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">She had a tough time leaving San Francisco because of how much she'd come to love the people there</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">[there may have been a few tearful goodbyes]</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">but she's already loving La Serena for the people <b>AND</b> the breeze.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">[I guess it's on the coast.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">According to Kaits the breeze is the greatest blessing considering how HOT HOT HOT it is right now.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Which leads me to our next point...]</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The seasons in Chile are exactly </span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">opposite</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> ours.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">It's like Christmas in July</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">{Christmas weather at least}</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">with the sweltering heat settling in just as the snow starts to fall in SLC.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I love this weather blip from Kaitlin's email:</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;">"O</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: normal;">h boy, summer is here! </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: normal;">Well, no...it's not. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: normal;">But holy cow is it <b>HOT</b>.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: normal;"> I want winter back. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: normal;">haha</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">—</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: normal;">I never thought I'd say that one. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">It's going to stay super hot like this until December and then be <b>WAY</b> hotter until at least March. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">It's just so hot already. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I sweat like crazy</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">—</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">dripping</span><i style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">.</i></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I can't imagine what summer is going to be like if I'm already dripping sweat."</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Lol</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">—don't you just love her?!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">She paints such a vivid picture.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I'm burning up just reading it!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">[wait...no...</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">that's from the </span><i style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: small;">mountain </i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">of blankets I've burrowed under to stay warm.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Why is there snow on our front lawn in <i><b>November</b></i>?</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">And why is my husband so bent on sleeping with the windows open when there is snow on our front lawn in <b><i>November</i></b>?</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Oh of course.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Because he's lost touch with reality and is convinced he lives in a sauna.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">No steam rooms here baby...</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">just your wife's lungs pooling with fluid as she surrenders to a serious case of pneumonia.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">And I thought waking up to an apartment so freezing that I began to consider a reputation of poor punctuality at work a positive alternative to climbing out of bed was bad.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">{Let's note too how this has created an environment in which a smooth shave is so speedily undermined that I've started to wonder if I should forgo the frustration and effort and just embrace my more primal instincts.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">When I'm shunned from society I can at least get a gig with Geico for the "so easy a cave</span><i style="font-size: small;"><b>woman</b></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"> can do it" campaign</span> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">— </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">oh so sexy!}</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">:)</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I thought so...]</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Chile lies on the convergent plate boundary of the Nazca and South American tectonic plates, making it a </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">hotspot</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">for</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">mega-thrust earthquakes</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> for over 500 million years.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Chile_earthquake" target="_blank">2010 Chile earthquake</a> was the strongest earthquake worldwide </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">until the </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_T%C5%8Dhoku_earthquake" target="_blank">2011 Tōhoku earthquake</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> hit Japan earlier this year.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">It is still considered the sixth largest earthquake ever measured.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I realize sixth doesn't seem all that impressive, but considering it was 501 times more forceful than the tragic earthquake that devastated Haiti in January of that year, I respect its rank.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Chile also holds the record for the largest measured earthquake of all time</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">{<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1960_Valdivia_earthquake" target="_blank">the 1960 Valdivia earthquake</a>}</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">for those of you who can't appreciate anything less than #1.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">While these city-shifting earthquakes occur every few years,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">tremors are a regular occurrence in Chile.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Our little missionary is now very aware of that fact.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">{Here's an email excerpt documenting her first experience with an earthquake...}</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: normal;">"So the scary part first. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: normal;">We had a little earthquake...nothing big. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: normal;">They have two names for earthquakes here: a</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: normal;"> temblor, which is 6 magnitude and under, and a terromoto which is anything above that. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: normal;">Wednesday morning, a little after 4, I woke up because I needed the bathroom. Within seconds everything started shaking. We have a lot of temblors here during the night and I've felt a lot that have woken me up, but they're super short and not very strong. But this one (although it wasn't very long) was a <b><i>lot</i></b> longer and a <b><i>lot</i></b> stronger. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: normal;">A few things fell in the house next to ours and listening to that and the sound of all our dishes going everywhere was eerie. Plus t</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: normal;">he sound the earth makes is seriously horrible! </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: normal;">I was terrified. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: normal;">It was probably only 15 seconds but it felt like a lot longer than that. I was just praying the whole time that it wouldn't get worse because it start out pretty strong and just got stronger and stronger the longer it went. I couldn't sleep after that and I didn't dare go to bathroom because I was so scared haha."</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">As every missionary serving in a foreign country eventually faces the grand inquisition about the food, here's a few insights on Kaitlin's experiences with Chilean cuisine.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">the Columbian completo</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"Only one picture this week [pictured above]. This was the result of our P-day district activity. Gross huh? It's a Columbian completo. Here in Chile, the completos are the hotdog, bun, a <b>TON</b> of mayo, a <b>TON</b> of guacamole (not like good homemade stuff; this kind's super runny) and ketchup. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Sounds tasty right? </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Ha, no, I don't like them. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">My first time they all teased me saying my completo wasn't complete because I left off all the mayo and only had a tiny bit of guacamole and ketchup. The Columbian one actually wasn't too bad though. It looks disgusting but it was okay. It's the hot dog, bun, onions, crushed up potato chips, pineapple sauce with chunks of pineapple, melted cheese and ketchup. They tried to feed us two but I quit after the first. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><b>so. much. food!!!</b>"</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"So you will never believe this one...I like tomatoes. Like, not love. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">{I love that clarification.}</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">They're there pretty much in every meal and they make me eat them. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I used to dread it. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I still don´t love it when it's just tomatoes. I like them with lettuce at least. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">So I guess I still don't love them but they´re okay now. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">:) </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I still don't like fish though. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">So far there hasn't been a ton of fish, but I still remember my first week I had a "salad" which turned out to be straight up tomatoes and tuna. And that's when i didn't like tomatoes yet. It was awful..."</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">{If it's any consolation Kaits, tuna is so not fish.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">It is cat food in a can.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">And any of you who disagree can go eat your mayo-slathered kitty-cat food and breathe your faux-fishy criticisms on a tuna-hater who cares to <strike>smell</strike> hear them.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"We had Churi-pan for lunch. It's like a hot dog but the meat is better. The Latins load it up with mayo and usually with a salsa called pebre, but there's lots of cilantro in it so it's a no-go for me. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">{Note: Kaits is allergic to cilantro}</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I stick to ketchup and mustard."</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"Yes, I´m still gaining weight. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">{<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #333333;">¡</span>ay, ay, ay!}</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">But on the bright side, I might have an excuse to tell the members here that I can't eat much.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">{<span class="hps" style="color: #333333; text-align: -webkit-auto;">¿Cómo</span><span class="" style="color: #333333; text-align: -webkit-auto;">?</span></span><span class="" style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #333333; text-align: -webkit-auto;">}</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> I keep getting sick...like not the flu but my stomach <i>kills</i> me. It started out when I got here then stopped for about two weeks, but it's started back up again and is so bad. It's my stomach </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">— </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">it feels like someone is wringing it out like a rag then soaking it in acid. It hurts so badly. And then I feel like puking all day long til we get home and I do puke and then finally I feel fine. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">But yesterday we were eating with the Alvarado and I had to run to the bathroom to throw up. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I was so embarrassed.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Anyway, normally we have P-days off from almuerzo {lunch}, but there's an Hermana here that "always" eats with the missionaries on her birthday and gets super, super offended and really easily too, so we pretty much had to go. Luckily I had an excuse not to eat because my stomach is still a little eh, but holy cow my poor companion! We dread eating there every week</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">1. because it´s like Thanksgiving dinner after you've fasted </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">and 3. the cat is always in the kitchen eating the food. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">It's <i>really</i> dirty in there...</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">So we spent our P-day there today but I didn't really have to eat, which means my stomach doesn't hurt</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">—h</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">appy day! </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">We're not sure if my stomach is still adjusting to the food or portion sizes or what but we're going to wait it out longer before we go see if anything's wrong. I'll keep you updated. For now I really think I am going to try and tell the members that I can't eat everything and just see if that helps. I'm about 99% sure that it will."</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"So my stomach has been better since I started telling the members to give me a little less. Thank goodness! One or two of them were a little weird about it at first, but I think they're good now...I hope. I don't want to offend them, but I don't want to be sick all day throwing up either. I haven't had as much pain, so it looks like we might have found the answer. No more grande portion sizes for me.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">p.s. My jeans still fit! <b>SO</b> happy about that one." </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Hermana DeMille has earned herself a nickname in Chile:</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">It appears that the people of La Serena are fixated on making it stick:</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"In less than 24 hours here, I've been called Barbie 3 times. And now, it's an everyday occurrence. I hate it. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">{How dare someone give you this multi-billon dollar moniker or compare you to the beaming plastic icon of idealized beauty!!! </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">oh the <i>nerve...</i>}</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I have never wanted to dye my hair so bad. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">But at the same time I can't. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">:(</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I would miss it too much and would probably look funny.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">In my last area I only got called Barbie once. It was mostly my eyes that people would comment on, but here, it's creepy guys calling me Barbie. I've never felt so uncomfortable in a place."</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">{oh...<i>that's</i> why you hate it.</span><br />
<i style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">little creepers!</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">}</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">I wonder if flea collars work on missionaries too...</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I do.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Especially now that poor Kaitlin has fleas!!!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Oh it's so comical but oh so sad too.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I wonder if she'd think it's funny if we sent her a flea collar for Christmas.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">[What a genius idea!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">How have we not thought of this before?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I bet we can find a bunch that could totally pass as anklets and bracelets and play it all off as a new U.S. fashion trend. And what if it caught? </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">We could save a nation people! </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Think about it...]</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Come to find out, flea collars are <u>not</u> such a genius idea.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Apparently they can make you sterile.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Be advised.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I love how enthusiastic she is about her wingless friends:</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: normal;">"2 months in Chile!!!! And I can officially say I have fleas. Yay!!!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: normal;">Last Sunday we had ward counsel and my neck just started itching like crazy! I went and checked afterwards and found about 20 bites on my neck and chest. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: normal;">I have about 20 other random bites on my arms & feet too. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: normal;">It's lovely."</span></div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">We hoped she'd be free of fleas by the time she moved to La Serena, but apparently the warmer spring weather accompanies an increase in flea population. Here's the latest:</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: normal;">"We still have days when it's a little cold but lots of days when it's really hot and it's only going to get worse. The fleas are getting worse too. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: normal;">I need to take a picture for you guys sometime. The ward members laugh because we're in skirts everyday and they can see all my bright red flea bites and dark bite scars on my legs too. It's ugly. Not to mention how big the flea bites are. It's gross. T</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: normal;">he mosquitos are coming out now too and they're <b>MASSIVE</b>. The ones in Utah are tiny compared to these suckers. The only real plus about spring is that there's is light in the morning and in the night. I love that."</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">While we're on the subject of creepy crawlies, let's visit the spider story.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Of course I still vote <a href="http://parker-and-chelsey.blogspot.com/2010/07/creepy-crawlies.html" target="_blank">my spider story</a> as the more scarring of the two.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">[I may be a <i>teeny</i> bit biased...</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">]</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">:)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Even still </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">—</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> whoever thought that terming these blasted arachnids with cutesy adjectives like "itsy bitsy" and "eensy weensy" would make them any less creepy was seriously misled.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Take it away Kaits...</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"We should have taken a picture before we killed it, but we found a spider in our pension that was so </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">seriously massive and creepy that we couldn't run the risk of a getaway</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">. It wasn't a brown recluse or anything like that but <b>holy creepy</b>! </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I went in to go into the bathroom one night after planning and it was just hanging out on the wall in front of me. I almost touched it by accident. <b>SO gross!!!</b> </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Hermana Stallings said it's not normal to have a bunch of spiders in pensions so hopefully that's the last we'll see of them. It was seriously like the size of 4 quarters all spread out on a table though. Ewww..."</span><br />
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Kaitlin's only been out in the field for a few months now and she's likely a thousand times better at Spanish than I've ever been.</div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">[Which is super sad considering I studied the language for oh...7 years.]</span></div>
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Just like any new missionary, she had to fight through the transition from the MTC to the field, but she's doing so awesome! </div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: normal;">But it is so nice to be able to understand and converse with people. I even have a little personality now! haha. I don't know that I ever made you guys laug</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: normal;">h but I have never had so much fun making people laugh here. Maybe it's my Spanish..."</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">In fact, Kaitlin is so immersed in the language that she's developed that endearing missionary Spanglish.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: normal;">A few of my favorite substitutions:</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">divisions</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: normal;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: normal;">for</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: normal;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">splits</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">cambios</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: normal;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: normal;">for</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: normal;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">transfers</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">direction</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: normal;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: normal;">for</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: normal;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">address</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">assisting</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: normal;"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">for</span> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">attending</span></span></div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I love the way she's started placing the noun in front of the adjective like Spanish too.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">i.e. the family Alvarado</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Here's a funny excerpt from an email evidencing the momentary memory loss of the English word for "peach":</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">The 18th of September in Chile is like our 4th of July on steroids. They celebrate for 4 days!!! What's great is that gave us plenty of time for our ward activity. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">The ward is small here so the activity was super fun and low key. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">There was music (just like the Spanish music that is out on that ranch near Chris' house). We played soccer, basketball, and a bunch of other little games too. One of the members brought a bike that lets two people sit and pedal [a tandem bike perhaps?] and there were kites and jump ropes and a huge tug-o-war with all the women against all the men. It was fun and so funny. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">And, of course, there was </span><i style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b>lots</b></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> of food.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">One of the members here cooks for her work. Because empenadas are huge for this holiday she had to make about 400 of them. Crazy! So we decided to help out. It was fun but <b><i>holy cow</i></b> she works fast. We could hardly keep up! </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">For</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> dessert we had something that is special to Chile. It's called mote con huesillo. It has...oh I can´t remember the name in English...</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">durazno in Spanish...</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I'm going to start a new email and hopefully I remember by then...</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">[new email...]</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><b>PEACH</b>!!!</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">haha sorry."</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">"Special Musical Numbers" are truly special in Chile.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> "Yesterday I played a number on the piano in Church. The bishop asked me last week to play one so I ended up playing 'Praise to the Man.' It's kind of funny and sad at the same time because all of the members here know and love that song, but after sacrament meeting every single person that talked to me asked me what song I'd played haha. It's sad because really, they don't ever get anything like that here. It is one of the many reasons that I feel so blessed. There are so many things that are normal for us that most people here only dream about. Knowing how to play the piano is SUPER, SUPER rare here. I'm so happy I have the opportunity to change that, at least for awhile."</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">FYI: This is a picture of Kaitlin's last district and her fabulous companion Sister Jacobo from her last transfer in San Francisco.</span></td></tr>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Does anyone else think missionary companionship quarrels sound a bit like marriage at times?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I see it!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">To date, Kaitlin's had great companions. Of course all roommates have their quirks, but she's so easy-going and kind that she's never made much mention of it. She's just appreciated their kindness and patience with her as she's acclimated to the country.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Her switch to La Serena brought with it a fun challenge</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">{and no, I'm not talking about being nicknamed Barbie}.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Hermana DeMille finally has one of <i>those</i> companions.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">She such a trooper!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">She's so good about the whole situation too.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Notice how kindly she highlights their differences:</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"Well, I am still learning lots of patience this week. We still have had a little bit of a hard time in our companionship. We are both a little stubborn and headstrong.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">{Is she talking about me and Parker?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I'm so confused...}</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Before it was only about how I could change and I am fine to try to change things, but it was really hard to have the right attitude about it because she wasn't very tactful in how she stated things and she didn't seem willing to make concessions or change at all.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">{Is anyone else picturing a marital tiff?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I think the resemblance is uncanny.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">too funny...}</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">We had a good talk last night and I think we finally figured things out. I think we're still going to have bumps along the way, but now that she's willing to do something to work towards better unity I feel more willing too. I have been trying to have a lot of patience these last two weeks, but it has been so hard. I know I haven't had the patience that I've needed, but I hope it's getting better. I feel like I know what everyone is talking about when they talk about companions that make them stretch and grow. I feel like this will be one of those times, but I am worried about getting the companions that <b>REALLY</b> make you stretch and grow.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">{If that's the case, you may want to rethink the whole marriage thing once you're home girly...</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">jus' kiddin'!!!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Marriage is a million-and-one moments of </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">pure bliss.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I mean, we <i><b><a href="http://parker-and-chelsey.blogspot.com/2010/11/behind-closed-doors.html" target="_blank">never</a></b></i> fight...</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">}</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Chile just celebrated </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><b>50</b> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">years of missionary work!</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> </span></div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I didn't realize it was such a production!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Because Kaitlin transferred to La Serena <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">[a seven hour bus ride away]</span> the week prior, she unfortunately wasn't able to attend.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I still think it's sweet she's in Chile for such a big anniversary</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">{hence my recording it}.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The final even was a spectacular celebration in the Santa Laura stadium in Santiago. "Creemos"</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">[We Believe]</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Check out the pics I borrowed from the mission blog!</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I love this aspect of missionary work!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">[and Church callings, and volunteering, and wifing...</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">]</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">{Cristian, Ada and little Cristian hijo became members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints this October</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">!</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">}</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"It was really special. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I was on the verge of tears (of joy of course) the whole night. I just can't help but think that this is just the beginning. You should hear how they talk about the temple. They are so excited to go and I am so happy I will still be here to see them sealed together forever. Ah, I am just so excited for this family! He'</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">s going to be a future bishop, she's going to be the future Relief Society president and Cristian hijo is going to go on a mission. He's already thought about it! It's just all so amazing...</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Anyway, sorry that I'm rambling on but I am so happy for them. Seeing them and how happy they are to have and live the Gospel has changed me. I know why I wanted to serve a mission and I knew why I was here but seriously, seeing this process step by step and seeing their change and how happy they are has really change my perspective on why I am here. Not that I had the wrong reasons for coming...nothing like that. It's just that being a part of this for them and seeing how the Gospel does change lives has changed me too. They were happy before. They were fine before. But just having the Gospel in their lives now...they have even more joy, more unity, more perspective, more everything. It's made me more excited to share my testimony and the Book of Mormon and this Gospel. I love it. I'm so happy I'm here."</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">And, like every great missionary, Kaitlin is growing too.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">What I love most about Hermana DeMille's letters is seeing how clearly she is growing in her understanding of Gospel.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Kaits loves<i> </i>what she's doing because she loves the message she's there to share.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">She knows it's true, </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">she always has, </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">but she's being reminded of that fact every day.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">And I <i>love</i> that!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I am so happy she has this opportunity and so happy she made the decision to take it.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">We're so proud of her and love her more than she knows and will probably ever care to know.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">{I'm serious.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Poor Parker is smothered on a daily basis.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I kind of feel like this little heart of mine feels a little too much.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">It can't be healthy...}</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">And because I can't think of a better way to close than with her words, that's exactly what I'm going to do.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Take it away Kaits...</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"I have been thinking this week especially in how lucky I am to have the Gospel in my life. I started reading the Book of Mormon over again, but this time I'm focusing only on the Atonement. It is crazy how many things I'm seeing that I haven't ever seen or thought of before. I thought about all the times in my life when I haven't been happy or was suffering for some reason or another as I read the BOM with this focus and realized...<i>we</i> create our own misery. <i>We</i> create our own pain and suffering. I knew that, but I don't know...I'm kind of getting a different perspective on it. I feel so lucky to have the Gospel in my life and I know it's why I'm happy. I am so happy. I am so grateful. The Lord is seriously stretching me so much and sometimes I think I can't go there and that I don't want to, but then I think well, if I don't let Him, I won't progress. I am so grateful for the opportunity to serve a mission and help others receive the Gospel but I also see now and am so grateful for all that it is doing for me. I have a LOT to learn and to grow but I already feel so different than before because of the way I've tried to let the Gospel stretch me and change me. That's something I don't think I really did a lot before in my life, and I hope I don't ever stop. I am so happy."</span><br />
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</div>Parker & Chelsey DeMillehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04753140257112122115noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2969888342910468392.post-55631233995987679692011-11-03T12:38:00.000-07:002011-11-06T02:00:51.323-08:00good news minute [meet caden]<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">but now he has sweet little non-webbed fingers and toes and is <b>WAY</b> bigger than a kidney bean.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><b>Caden Michael Chandler</b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">8 pounds 2 ounces</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">21 inches long</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">and stealing the hearts of his loving parents</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Michael & Kayla</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"Baby Caden is here! He is so handsome and absolutely perfect!!!"</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">This little guy is spunky and spirited and the wiggliest wiggle worm</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">{all signs of an athlete in the making}.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I'm nearly certain he's a baby Einstein too</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">{like a legit mini-genius}.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">{while his infant peers spend their first weeks in a half coma}</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">and we are absolutely, positively in love with him!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">He is, without question, the cutest litte conehead we know!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><b>congratulations</b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">We love you all to pieces! </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"Michael & Kayla make parenting look easy. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">We're lucky they're the ones pioneering this whole parenting thing." </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>"Why's that sweetie?"</i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"They make me feel like we could totally pull it off..."</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"...like when it happens..."</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">[longer pause]</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"...not like right this second..."</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">[even longer pause]</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"...'cause we can't even get ourselves on a schedule</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">and babies <i><b>need</b></i> schedules."</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"<i>Ok...</i>"</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">[a <i>pregnant</i> pause]</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">hehehe--i'm so punny!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"Or maybe our baby will be as bad at schedules as we are.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">If they're anything like you they'll never make their due dates."</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">[silence]</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"...or maybe they will?"</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">[more silence]</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"...because they'll be so excited to see you!"</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">[still silent]</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"Oh bebe, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">all I'm sayin' is Caden is one lucky baby...</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I <u><i>absolutely</i></u> agree.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">[but remain silent nonetheless]</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"...and that someday we'll have lucky babies too."</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">bingo!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>"someday...</i></span><br />
<i style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: small;">let's just enjoy their lucky baby for now though k?"</i><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"k...</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">hey bebe?"</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>"Yes?"</i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> "Maybe we can start practicing your bedtime too..."</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">[</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">here we go...]</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">To whomever sent the <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">best</span></b> baby to the <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">best</span></b> parents, making for the <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">best</span></b> and sweetest little family on our besties list...</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">thank you</span><b style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> </b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-</span><b style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> </b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>thank you - </i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">thank you</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-weight: bold;">!</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">[maybe we'll plan a little girl for 2014 so we can marry them off and make this best friends forever thing a reality...</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Allow for a subconscious {love-at-first-sight} moment by bringing 3-year-old Caden to see the little one at the hospital</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>"What do you say to the baby Caden?"</i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>"I wuv you bebe."</i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Plan for 2014 baby girl Chandler too so the girls can grow up as BFF's, always keeping her in his peripheral.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> Schedule loads of play dates before Caden learns about cooties and wants nothing to do with girls.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Move away for a few years while the two work through their awkward phases;</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">no </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">need to let those images taint their impressions of one another...</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">{Caden will likely skip this phase altogether.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I wish I could confidently say the same for ours...</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">the best I can do is spare them from visor bangs and hope their teeth come in quickly like their daddy's so we can all avoid the drama of high school orthodontics.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">If you've ever developed a bucky beaver smile after years with a straight one and then been forced to use ortho was to weakly camouflage the chasm between your two fron teeth you know </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">it's traumatizing.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I still wonder how I managed to keep all my friends...}</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">A few years pass</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">—</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">we send her off to her sophomore year of college just as he's wrapping up the post-mission adjustment period,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">execute covert operation "first date" under the guise of an Amazing-Race themed "family" date in celebration of the two of you,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">deliberately pull all the cliche embarrassing-parent stunts to give them a reason to ally together and sympathize with one another</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">set things in motion for a classic little love story</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">{where the unsuspecting children chalk the marriage up to fate}</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">then literally "seal the deal" in the SLC Temple</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">{or maybe a destination wedding?}</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">and wait for the next generation of ridiculously good-looking little people.]</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I mean, we'll have to talk details.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">It's not like I've really thought anything through...</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">remember </span><a href="http://parker-and-chelsey.blogspot.com/2011/03/good-news-minute.html" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;" target="_blank">this</a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> post?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I do.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">It's the day I was </span><b style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">shocked</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> to find people welcoming a reprieve from the</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"Look at me! </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Would you take a look at this</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;">LIFE</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">???</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">oh......my heck.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">It is so</span> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>awesome</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Isn't it so </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>awesome</b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">?</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Probably because the people living them are so </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><u>AWESOME</u></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">!</span></b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">and so ridiculously good-looking too.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">There are so many people who would </span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">KILL</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> </span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">[and/or have major reconstructive surgery] </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">to have Spongebob's Square-body.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">We are seriously so blessed." </span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">{gasp!!!</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">}</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">I know right?</span></span></div>
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<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;"><b>un-be-lievable</b></span></i></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">[think of how many times you've seen this picture people...</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">whatever the number is I'm sure it's too many.]</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I'm typically not one to encourage bad behavior</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">[why I don't drink milk with cereal floaties</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">]</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">perpetuate unhealthy habits</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">[why I sleep for at <i>least</i> 2 hours when I nap]</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">or condone any degree of indulgence in guilty pleasures</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">[why I never eat the </span><i style="font-size: small;">whole</i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"> tub of s'mores ice cream </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">in one sitting]</span>.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">And I'm never one willing to be party to playing to the masses.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">But I suppose</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">...just this once...</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>maybe-might-will</b></span> sell out for readership.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">You <b>may-can-will</b> thank me later.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">introducing the only sequel you'll ever enjoy more than the original</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">[other than Shrek 2]</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">good news minute:</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">2 much 2 say 2 day</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">-so we're breaking it up-</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">no Kardashian-esque marriages.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">really?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Bing</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Aleph</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Kal-el</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Puma</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Banjo</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Sosie</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">the list goes on...</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">no apocalyptic natural disasters</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">our South American sisters seem to be safe and sound</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">minus the earthquakes,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">flooded streets, </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">donkey stampedes, </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">and bus-boarding dangers of course.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">it's a genuinely <i><b>good</b></i> good news minute.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">happy reading!!!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">{literally}</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">There are so many wonderful things happening in our lives that I would absolutely <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>LOVE</b></span> to share.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">i.e. If you insist on writing a <b>NOVEL</b> of a post that'll drive even the most dedicated reader to skimming, </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">be judicious in selecting the main titles for each section.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">When read out of context, the shock factor section may be a bit much.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(sorry if I scarred you for life dear little sister...</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">and sorry to those who've since flagged my blog as containing explicit adult content</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">).</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">i.e. Sleeping in and snug-buggling up on the couch with my sweet hubby for the first time in weeks.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">And check this...we were actually <i><b>civil</b></i>!!!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">No pushing, no shoving, no smacking, no slapping, no fighting over sheets/blankets/remotes, etc.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Just a peaceful, quiet little cuddlefest to reconnect after a crazy busy week.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">i.e. When we returned from our muddy 26-mile biking adventure just in time for the BYU game.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I informed Parker we'd be having company </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">and gave him a quizzical look as he put on his best pouty face.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"Is that a problem sweetie?"</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"No...it's just that I wanted to watch the game naked..."</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">This has never happened before.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Our college game day attire never has been </span><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt;">— </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">and never will be </span><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt;">— </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">our birthday suits.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Nevertheless, I feign understanding with a sympathetic smile.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"And now you have to wear clothes?"</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">He responds with a sad nod.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Gotta love the little exhibitionist.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">i.e. When I lost it with Parker for intentionally passing up Iceberg when he knew I wanted french fries.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"Maybe if you hadn't been on your phone you would've seen it..."<br />"Maybe if you hadn't been too 'tuff' to watch a chick flick I wouldn't have had to read the plot summary on my phone while trying to find the one redbox in the Valley that has your man movie..."</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"Beeder think of all the calories I saved you!"</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"What are you trying to say sweetheart?"</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Slowly the background noises begin to fade. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">the hum of the AC</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">the rustling leaves</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">the rev of the accelerator</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">even the crickets sense the need for retreat.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">'Til finally it takes over</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>silence</i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">okay...it may not have been quite so dramatic.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">And we may even have laughed about it all moments later.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Until...</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">yes, <i>until</i>...</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> karma came to play.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px;">— </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">in the midst of our giggles </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px;">—</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"Honey...weren't you supposed to turn on Highland?"</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Yup. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Poor Parker came face-to-face with the cruel irony of the situation when he realized the french fry debate made him miss the turn-off to the last redbox with an available copy of Thor.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Poor baby... ;)</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">i.e. When I tried to wedge my desk away from the wall to feed a cord down to the outlet only to discover,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">A. the desk was bolted to said wall,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">B. I looked ridiculous trying to leverage my body weight against it in sky-high stilettos,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">and C. my boss was watching his genius protege the whole time.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">This includes his seeing, firsthand, my bright idea to revert to the primitive cavewoman approach of whacking the plug against the teeny gap in hopes that it might shape-shift and wriggle its way through.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Yes, I did this.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">And yes, I did look every bit as ridiculous as I've made it sound.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"square peg no go in round hole? say whaaaaa???"</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">i.e. Parker & Chelsey's adventures along the Wasatch Crest Trail.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">A 26-mile ride that traces the "Backbone of Utah" and is highlighted by o</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">ne adjective-loving trail reviewer for its "sun-dappled woods to climb, luxuriant basins to cross, steep hills to conquer, and tricky sections that require a full repertoire of bike handling skills."</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">While I fully agree it's a sick ride with sweet views, the above convinced me to commit to being absolutely </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">anti-cheese on the recap. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">This list is a bit overwhelming.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Here's a quick list of the many soon-to-be-featured visits and mini-vacays you'll be seeing on the blog.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Take a deep breath.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Go!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><b>Provo :: </b>BFF Mission Farewell</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><b>Provo</b> <b>:: </b>BFF Bridal Shower</span><br />
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<b style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: small;">Reno :: </b><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Prado Wedding</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I'm sure there's more.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">But that'd just give me more to do.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">so I'm calling it.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">What you see is what you'll get.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">whether. you. like it. or. not.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">deets to come.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">:)</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(or should I say tails???</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">anyone here watch this week's Parks & Rec?)</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">i.e. Or lack thereof.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Did you know this Halloween baby let more than HALF of October fly by without so much as a glance at anything even remotely resembling a pumpkin?! </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I'm not sure life's ever been so busy...</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">or that I've ever had a weaker excuse for letting my happy birth month go by unnoticed and uncelebrated.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Poor thing.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Luckily, we realized our misstep early enough to make a change and say hello and Happy Halloween to some fall fun including, but not limited to,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">fabulous fall weather for a Moab couples' trip,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">duck races and inflatable bouncy horses at Cornbelly's,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Jay-Z & Beyonce's Provo Halloween party,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">a few costume blunders,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">and a semi-legal and happy happy <i>happy </i>birthday to me :)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">so many details to come.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I'm so ready to be done with these.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">little epiphanies.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">i.e. Parker made an exceptionally insightful comment about Priesthood blessings earlier this month that I can't wait to comment on and share.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I loved him so much in that moment and just <b>LOVED</b> the way his reflection and contemplation got my wheels turning too.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>BIG</b> plans.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">dental school applications + 20 credit semesters + THE perfect job = </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">BIG changes that've come and seem to keep coming our way.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Yet the teeny tiny portion of my teeny tiny brain that insists on structure and order had me convinced that I </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">could not-would not-should not</span></b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> blog until I could do those past memories justice and in the proper sequence of events.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">And that, </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">my dear friends,</span> </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">overwhelmed this teeny tiny brain of mine enough to discourage me from even <i>thinking </i>of keying b-l-o-g-g-e-r into the search nav.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I know I say this all the time, but I really-truly-honestly-please-believe-me-when-I-say-it-this-time have </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>never</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-style: italic;">, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;">never-ever-ever</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">,</span> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><b>never</b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; font-weight: bold;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">been this busy in my life.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">It's been fabulous</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Cambria;">—</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">and draining</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Cambria;">—</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">but mostly fabulous.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">But because I know life only promises to get busier,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I'm back and blogging about the last few months of this little life of ours in no particular order whatsoever.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Because really, how can I expect to do a memory justice when I've waiting so long to share it that I hardly remember it at all?</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">oh wait...</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I can't.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Maybe it's time to stop stockpiling and get writing about life as it happens, filling in the gaps as I go.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><b>what a novel concept!</b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The only problem is that I know myself all too well.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I am </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">fully aware of my paradoxical approach to projects </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Cambria;">—</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> i.e. the way my </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">teeny tiny attention span offsets a <b><i>highly </i></b>addictive personality </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Cambria;">— </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">and realize how this makes me a rather bipolar blogger.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Have you noticed a pattern?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: x-small;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">fiend, then phantom, then fiend, then phantom, fiend, phantom, fiend, phantom, fiend, phantom</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>It's no bueno.</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">And it's quite honestly the reason why I've neglected this poor blog.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I couldn't bear the thought of expending the last few brain cells I had left each night into any kind of creative project </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: x-small;">— </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">especially one that didn't have an associated deadline.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">In my mind, I needed to keep my free time free</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">especially when those moments were so few and far between.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">But I miss this.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Anytime I succumb to the temptation to sneak a peek at my Google Reader and see the million-and-one people with similarly busy lives taking the time to jot teeny bits of it down I promise myself that, </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">come Sunday, </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I'm getting back on my blogging horse.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Mostly because I want to, </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">but also because my Reader has this knack for leaving me with a major guilt-trip anytime I peruse through it in my phantom phase.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">I hate that...</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">so I suppose I'm here today to announce that <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">the buck stops here</span>.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">I am back on my horse</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">and plan to <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">brave this bucking bronco</span> of a busy life and </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">stay in the saddle</span> for...</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">well, </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">for as long as my teeny tiny brain can handle it.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">How's that for a time frame?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I refuse to make any promises I can't keep people,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">so I'm afraid that's the best you're gonna get.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Here's to playing catch-up,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">making memories,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">and enjoying every moment of this </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;">busy</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">, <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><b>busy</b></span>, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;">busy</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> life.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Happy Halloween</span> team!!!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Have a devilishly good time tonight...</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">it's an annual event.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">it's my happiest place on earth.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">it's why I'm a water baby,</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">why I married a water baby,</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">and why all my babies will be water babies.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">you'd better believe it.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">it's the scent of sunscreen,</span></span></span></div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">the sting of a sunbur</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">n </span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">when I'm having too much fun to remember it</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">,</span></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">and will be the most notable contributing cause to any future case of skin cancer.</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">it's fun in the sun with</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">family,</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">friends,</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">family-friends,</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">and friends that may as well be family.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">and it even has an association that opposes its existence.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">AHBA anyone???</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">it's...</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">so obvious,</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I know,</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">but humor me.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">drumroll, please!</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">...ba da da da da da da da da...</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">lake shasta!!!</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">woo woo woo woo woo!!!!</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">always </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">picturesque</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">always </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>entertaining</b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">always </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><i>memorable</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">always </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><i><b>epic</b></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;">always</span> </i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">an <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">adventure</span></b>.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> And let's be honest...</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">what more could you ask for in this hundredth </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">100</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">th</span></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> post</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">than </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><b>65</b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> favorite moments</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">from this year's </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">picture-perfect</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">, </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>endlessly entertaining</b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">, </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>absolutely memorable</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">, </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">epic!!!</span></i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b>adventure</b></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Think of the 65 as a sign that I'm temporarily retiring from longwinded posts, cartoons, pointless elaborations, and</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> anything resembling an ABC format.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I can't handle that kind of commitment anymore.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">And besides...</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">if you don't look at it that way it doesn't make any sense!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">It was once 100 favorite moments, but I didn't have it in me.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I know, I know.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">You can thank me later.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I saved me,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">and you,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">from myself.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">pretty amazing.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">anyhoo...</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">cue the 2011 highlights reel</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">a.k.a. photo overload</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">and. we're. off.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">1.</span> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>seester</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"> time</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> I love these girls more than anything in the world!!!</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">We're like brain quadruplets!</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i>for reals...</i></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">the similarities-<i>uncanny</i></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">the mannerisms-<i>so the same</i></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">the personalities-<i>nearly identical</i></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">the quirks-<i>i can't even explain.</i></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">and the blonde moments</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i>--oh the blonde moments!!!--</i></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">let's just say when four little peas try to squeeze into a two-pea pod,</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">you can't help but find it just a little endearing.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><i>kindred spirits</i></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">best way I can think to describe it.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">and what's even more amazing...</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">see the gorgeous girl in the white & pink???</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i>we adopted her that week!</i></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">her name is becca.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">she's my bestest friend in SLC.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">my favori-test gym buddy.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">my main wardie.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">my brain twin.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">my shopping accomplice.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">my social butterfly's double.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">my travel bug's match.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">the box to my chatter.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i><b>and</b></i> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i><b>so much more.</b></i></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">She came into the picture at a time when I couldn't shake the feeling </span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">that all my closest friends felt so very far away.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I loved being in Salt Lake City.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I really did!</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">-and still do-</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">But the initial excitement from the newness of it all was wearing thin</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">and the social being in me began to really miss the days when our friends were just 1, 2, <i>maybe</i> 3 blocks away.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">You'd be amazed at all the planning hiccups & headaches a 344-block span can create.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">-yes, that number is accurate.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">and yes, i looked it up just for you.-</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">and I mean <i>really</i> miss it...</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">enter becca!</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I still think the beginnings of our friendship are absolutely hilarious.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">We reverted back to all our childish/adolescent tendencies:</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">-two little girls at a sleepover who refused to lose an ounce of fun on sleep.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">-who seemed to forget completely the reality of the fact that...</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">oh my goodness!!! </span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">we could still play tomorrow,</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">and the next day,</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">and the next day,</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">and every day after that.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">and might even enjoy it more if we had a bit of sleep.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">-who worried everyone to pieces when we'd stay out til the wee hours chatting without ever checking in</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">note: avoid tucking your phones safely away in the trunk before checking in with the hubbies as any conversation you assume will take five minutes will likely take 50.</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">-who jumped the gun on issuing and accepting invitations to join in on each other's family vacations before:</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">1. checking with our families</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">2. checking with our husbands</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">and especially</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">3. knowing if we'd really be friends.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">In most cases, I'd advise on waiting to make these decisions til you at LEAST into week 2.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I just think we kind of knew...</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">As we discussed discounted flights and possible itineraries, </span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">one of us finally had the presence of thought to ask,</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i>"Do you think we're maybe moving too fast?"</i> </span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">at which point we both busted up laughing </span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i>"Nah..."</i></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">and continued chattering on about our plans.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">note: Is making new married friends not the most hilarious thing in the world?</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Who knew you'd still be semi-dating after marriage.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>oh so funny...</i></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Needless to say, I am so incredibly happy we acted so impulsively.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">S<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">hasta</span>L<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">ake</span>C<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">ruiser</span> 1 welcomed two wonderful new additions to its ranks that week.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">And the 4 of us?</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">We came away from the fun with the kind of memories that make </span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">four fast friends </span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>best friends forever</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">he DJ's.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">he dances.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">he drives.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">-and he's even a bit of a paradox-</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">at 6"6' he skis like a pro</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i>and</i> makes a killer wake.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">you're one tuff cookie Tay.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">way to make and take all the jokes too.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">-it's great to finally have some company-</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Red & blue announce a rematch.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Ashlee snags the game board and packs it into the Sequence box before attempting to collect everyone's chips.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Dad's hands hover over his chips in an attempt to guard them. </span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Everyone else sits motionless, wondering what to say.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Jason <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">of course </span>breaks the silence.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"You ready for bed Ash?"</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Ashlee breaks her trance and surveys the table,</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">quickly realizing her mistake.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">She apologizes profusely but it's too late.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"Oh my goodness.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I thought we were all done! </span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I'm SO sorry.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Here--here's the board back.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Let's play!"</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The game ends as everyone breaks into hysterics.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Poor Ash...</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">you know she heard about it for the rest of the week.</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">No mercy with this bunch.</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">I know all too well sis...</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">-------------------------------------------</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Sleep deprivation & sun exhaustion begin to take their toll on Becca.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">It's her turn to play.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">She's not thinking clearly in her halfway unconscious state.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Everyone's nervous about green's diagonal.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">They need to be stopped.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Everyone's hearts break as Becca lays down the winning card...</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b>GAME OVER</b>.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">:(</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">til she begins to move her chip toward the wrong slot on the board.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The tension is palpable.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Her teammates wince and will her hand to move the other way.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The blue team feigns ignorance, tilting their heads in an exaggerated look of confusion and contemplation.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The red team's in a fit of giggles.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> Then suddenly, she pauses.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">All reactions change,</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">there's hope!!!</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">then change again as she wanders back to the wrong side of the board.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">just kidding.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">we're doomed.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Her green teammates can't stand it any longer.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Haley buries her head in her hands.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Parker pipes up.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i>"Think about it</i>..."</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">he kindly cautions across the table.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Mom tries to mask her blue team's manipulation with sweet smiles,</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i>"Go Becca! Nice one!"</i></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">as Jason's red team's about ready to pee its pants.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Finally it begins to dawn on Becca that something is amiss.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">She wills herself to wake up and study the board.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"Mmmmmmm..."</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">then she sees it.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"Oh, we win!!!"</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">cue hysterics...again.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">In Becca's words,</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">A+ Becca.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>A+</b></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">4. Jay's tummy</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"Jay...smile!!!"</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">My command is met with the usual grumbles.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Why are boys so difficult with photos?</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">The boys in our family especially.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"Whatever, just smile."</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">As I look through the view finder, something's not quite right.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Then I see it.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"Jason... </span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">stop sticking your belly out!</span>"</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"I'm not."</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"Jay...really. </span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I just want one cute pic."</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Jason looks confused.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">That's a new look on him.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">hmmm...</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Ashlee peeks over at Jay and starts to laugh.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"Awwww. </span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Oh babe, you weren't kidding were you?"</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Jason shakes his head sadly before burying it in her shoulder.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">What a faker.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I think...</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I hope.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">:S</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">else the worst sister of the year award goes to...</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">ummmmmmmm...</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">me.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">as Parker would say...</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">"You're a jerk!"</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">say it like the rap song and it's funnier.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">love you elder brudder.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">notice how thoughtful I was not to write big.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">not to happy 'bout that one.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">but we did have fun spectating.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">7. my little hay-hay</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I remember my little 4-year-old self <i>begging</i> my Mom not to name her Haley.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"But they will call her hay-</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">like hay for horses Mom!!!</span>"</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">But to my dismay,</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Mom decided to name our sweet little baby Haley.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Why she asked my opinion, I will never know.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Actually, I probably wasn't even consulted.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I likely just made my opinion known.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I was a spirited little child.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">:)</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">And now that I know her,</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I wouldn't have it any other way.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">She's my little hay-way...</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">my super cute,</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">super smart,</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">super talented,</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">super silly,</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">super sassy,</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">super fun little sis.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">...and she always will be.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I'm so happy we're besties now Hay.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Love you to pieces little one!</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">8. the Walton family</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Keith, Dana, & Parker are a hoot!</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">seriously the perfect additions to this year's crew.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Keith is a closet watersport pro.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">totally impressed us with his skiing, wakeboarding, and wakesurfing skills.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I hope I'm still that hardcore when I'm a parent.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Dana's easy-going, super fun, and so amused by us.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">our family dynamic's a bit much to handle at times.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I always appreciate those select few who find us endearing.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">oh and Dana's a speed reader too!</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">thanks again for all the great recommendations.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">And little Parker...</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I think he merits his own section.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">This kid is a riot</span>.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">gotta love little Par-quito.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">We appreciate your generosity more than you know.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Made Parker's week!</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">and mine too.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">thanks again!!!</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">This is how we will reference him for the remainder of this post.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Parker edged poor little Parquito out for the name when we all tried to decide how to differentiate between the two. </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I believe my Parker played the seniority trump card. </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">We felt bad at first, but I think Par-quito grew to love his little nickname.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">He definitely wore it well.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">anyway...</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Oh boy, this boy.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">He seriously made my week!</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">He is spunky, curious, daring, ambitious, and incredibly insightful & smart.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">And let's not forget how this pint-sized human garbage disposal is crazy confident for a 10-year-old too!</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">here's the deal though...</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">words will not be enough to explain the dynamics this child brought to the boat.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">you'll have to hear the stories.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i>enjoy...</i></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">10. "mission accomplished."</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">As evidenced by the pictures, our boat's outgrown its child phase.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Needless to say, it's an interesting dynamic and even a bit of an adjustment to reincorporate this element.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I'm always sad when the munchkins don't have a friend.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I remember being that age and feeling too "little" for everything and so bored.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Adults only humor you for a short while before returning to "me" mode.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">As much as I feel guilty though, I do love having kids out.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">It's a fun energy on the boat.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">anyway...</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Poor little Parquito was bored out of his mind spectating a game of Hand & Foot.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"Is it over?"</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"No."</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"Is it <i>almost</i> over?"</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"No."</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"Can I play yet?"</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"Not quite yet.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">You can keep score though!"</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">This didn't even last us through Round 1.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">After a few more laps around this same conversation he'd finally had it.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"Why would anyone want to play this game?</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">It is <i>so</i> boring.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I'm out of here."</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">And Jason,</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">in his typical sarcastic fashion,</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">accompanies his exit with a mini fist pump and </span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"mission accomplished."</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">As the table snickers away,</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Parquito appears not to notice and continues on his way.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">We didn't expect him to.</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">That kind of humor goes right over the typical 10-year-old's head.</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">We're in Round 3 by the time the laps back to the back of the boat.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">As he passes the table, he accidentally bumps the stool he'd been using, </span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">catching Taylor's little toe and yanking it out to a 90-degree angle.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Taylor howls in pain,</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"Dude!!!" </span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Little Parquito pauses,</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">casts a quick glance back,</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">then continues on his way.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i>"Mission accomplished."</i></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i><br /></i></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>hilarious!!!</b></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Oh my goodness.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">We all died laughing.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">even the injured Taylor had to appreciate the humor in it all,</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">chuckling in between gasps of pain.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Parquito--1.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Adults--0.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">He beat us at our own game.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">what a smart cookie!</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">When Parquito polished off his second box before the end of the second day,</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Jason decided it was time to take action.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> -<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Jas is our family's gusher lover.</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">They're his houseboat treat.</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">And when a child two decades his junior attempts to empty his stash,</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">you can bet he'll intervene.</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Is this hilarious to anyone else?</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">oh my gosh I'm dying.</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">it's too funny.-</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Jason gave Parquito his own box and hid the rest.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">But before long, that box was gone.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">To Jason's dismay,</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">sharp Parquito noticed that a certain Mr. White still seemed to be snacking on gushers.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>How can that be if I had the last of them?</i></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>It can't.</i></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>There's a cache.</i></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">And so the battle began</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">and ended with Jason giving Parquito the last of his stash as a parting gift the day he and Ash left for home.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">How's that for a happy ending?</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Like the one Jason made about the men's gymnastics.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Mom tried save him but he was too far gone.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"Jas! Men's gymnasts are actually <i>really</i> tough.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">That's where you got all your muscles, right Parquito?"</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">bum, bum, bum.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">i'm beginning to rethink my position on the battle of the gushers.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">jelly-filled fruit snacks can't spur on that kind of feud.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">or can they???</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Jason sighed as we spent the next twenty minutes discussing the nature of the sport and how little Parquito's parents spared him from the spandex costumes.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">he really is super tuff.</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">no joke.</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">As Mom jetted out a few damage control questions, I heard Jason quietly musing,</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"You just try to play the odds.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I picked the most obscure sport I could think of...</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I felt so good about it...</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">huh.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">live and learn."</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">And in case you're wondering, </span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I <b>did</b> feel better about the tummy incident after this.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Hard to be a victim when you're a perp too!</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">13. wakeboarding lessons with Parker </span>x 2</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Is this cute or what?</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">You should've seen little Parquito's progression that week.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">He's an animal!</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I loved seeing my Parker so proud of him too.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Absolutely adorable.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">all married within 7 months of each other</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">3 times the newlyweds = 3 times the fun</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I'm convinced.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Becca & Taylor get the top pic for being the most senior newlywed couple there.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">What'd you have Jay & Ash by, 3 weeks?</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">That is still so amusing to me.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Gotta love <i>love</i>!</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">November 2009</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">May 2010</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Taylor's jokes & Becca's laughter made for such a fun week.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">You can't help but love these two.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">really, you can't.</span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">we already adopted Becca.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">If you're nice we might keep you too Tay.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">:)</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">We're so lucky to have them for friends!</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Never a dull moment with these two.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I so enjoy seeing their relationship dynamic.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">It is hilarious.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">They are absolutely honest,</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">but still so in love.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">It is such a comedically cute thing to see!</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Plus it helps me justify most of Parker's & my behavior.</span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">We're in good company with these two.</span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Life is exponentially more fun with them in it too.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">which is always a plus.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Jason's dry sense of humor never ceases to both amuse, appall, and amaze me.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">And Ashlee truly is the big sister I never had.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Love her to pieces.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Hope you know how much we love you two.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">so happy you survived <i>almost</i> a whole week with the fam big bro</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">:)</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Remember last year when I had to leave my dear husband for a WHOLE WEEK only a month into our marriage?</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Life's so much happier when he's around.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">And really...</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">what good is my happiest place on earth when the person who makes me the happiest isn't there with me?</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">happy place vs. happiest place</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">It just isn't the same...</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">*sigh*</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">How'd you like that?</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Too much?</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I thought so.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">anyway...</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I'm so happy I could share this whole year with him.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Love my Parker.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">17. the </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><b>Webfoot</b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"> crew</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Oh goodness, </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">how I wish the whole world could meet Big E's posse!</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">We took about 5 of these pictures,</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">each one more hilarious than the next.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I would post all of them, but because I am such a wonderful daughter I will spare the mother whose facial expressions seem to match the increasing level of comicality in each picture.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I lov-a you momma.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">anyway...</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span><b style="font-size: x-large;">LOVE</b> this group<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">.</span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I love their laughter and just love how much they enjoy each other's company.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Partly because it's sweet and reminds me how lucky I'll be to have lifelong friends.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">But mostly because it's incredibly entertaining.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">love the Webfoot crew!</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">18. squashing Mom</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">and swimming with Mom.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">and playing Sequence and Word on the Street with Mom.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">and talking with Mom.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">and teasing with Mom.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">like the time we were teasing about the stick by her foot being a snake and she screamed and we laughed at her and she said it wasn't funny and then she looked down to start walking again and really screamed because there really was a snake.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">yeah...</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">we felt kinda bad about that one.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">and really just spending time with Mom in general.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">she's just awesome.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">and I love her a lot.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">and I wonder often too what on earth the three of us did to be the incredibly lucky/spoiled/blessed little kids Heavenly Father sent her way.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">He must really love us.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Or more likely realized Mom was the only woman with enough</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">faith, patience, humility, compassion, charity, and love to handle it.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Either way, I love Him for it!</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Love my mom too.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">and teaching them how to eat out of our hands!!!</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">did you know geese like brownies?</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">and licorice?</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">and sour punch straws too???</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">don't freak out.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I didn't give them much.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">And I gave all the sour punch straws to the mean geese who'd bite the other geese's bums anyway. </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I will admit, I did give the nice geese some brownies and licorice.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">But we really just used the licorice to create distance when a couple overeager goosen nipped Haley's finger trying to snatch away the bread.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">don't judge us.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">you weren't there.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">you don't know.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">19. Dad's famous daiquiris</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">virgin, of course.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">and, as always, so delightful & delicious.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">As I walked over to deliver Parker's to his floaty,</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I watched him cave to peer pressure and peg a nearby goose with the nerf football</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">after I'd specifically told him not to.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"I will give this to you,</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">but that doesn't mean I'm proud of you right now."</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Big E about peed his pants.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">but I meant<i> </i>every word.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i><b>any</b></i>time!!!</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">what'd I tell you?</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">we's a bunch a water babies.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">If only you'd been there to see the shark riding competitions.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">or would you call it shark mounting?</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">nobody could sit on the floaty long enough to ride the blasted thing.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">21. playing catch</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">football.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">nerf ball.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">nut ball.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">haha jk!</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">we didn't play that.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">but we did have one close call...</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Heisman trophy poses.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">the list goes on and on...</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">not really.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I just wasn't really sure how else to end it.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">isn't my Parker so cute though???</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">or maybe I made him put it on...?</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">one bleeds red.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">the other bleeds blue.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">one's a center.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">the other plays point.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">blonde, blue-eyed, fair & <i><b>fine</b></i>.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I've never seen the movie,</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">but I can't help but think of the title "Grumpy Old Men."</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">it is beautiful.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">and always glass.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><i>water baby</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><i>heaven</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">!!!</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"Haley! You have to plop!"</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"I can't plop! I will sink."</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"Don't be a baby."</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"<i>You</i> don't be a baby."</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"Why is it sooooo cold???"</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"My butt is getting wet."</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"Why did you bring your camera?"</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"Why did you bring your glasses?"</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"You brought yours too you goob..."</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"No...oh.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Well at least I didn't bring a hat."</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"But Chels, you told me to bring the hat."<br />"Oh I didn't mean you Becca!"</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"bahahahaha..."</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"Be quiet Haley!"</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">success!!!</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">25. bald eagles</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">and the obsession with the eagles.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">cue emoticon rolling its eyes.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">oh wait, i don't have one.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">oh well.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">But I will admit,</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">while I didn't have the fowl fascination or patience for bird watching,</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">the eagle v. osprey showdown was pretty epic.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">As was the moment when the sheriff pulled in to rubberneck and my fellow boat mate shouted,</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"Hurry! Quick! The birds are fighting!!!"</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Yes, yes.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Let's let the sheriff flap on up there and ring the bell to end the match.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>really.</i></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Gotta love the little genius!!!</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">who, in fact, isn't little at all.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">26. the time I insisted on hiking my camera all the way in and it died three pictures later</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">super duper.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"> </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I suppose I can still be grateful it allowed me to capture this moment.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Becca & Taylor braved Little Backbone.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Go team!!!</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I will admit I'm a bit picky about the water.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Mom and the girls try to avoid buggy coves.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Dad likes coves where he knows the ropes will hold.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">And the boys like having non-poison oak trees to tie off on.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">But we went a little overboard on our scavenging this year.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">To the point our conversations sounded a bit ridiculous,</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"Please, please, please, please, please have trees.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">It has a tree!</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">That's a bush.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Please, please, please, please, please don't have dirty water.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">It's kind of brown.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">We may or may not have been a little hooked.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">so happy Becca & I were book twinners</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"What page are you on?"</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"150."</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">you know you make me happy.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">counting down the days 'til Thanksgiving in Newport</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">woo woo woo!!!</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">btw...does Jason not totally look like he's in trouble for trying to throw Ash over the edge?</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">Just caught that in the picture progression.</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">i miss us already...</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">33. the girls</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Dana?</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Dana where are you?!</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">or was this a picture with our new adoptee?</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I don't recall...</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">love our little bad-Ash!!!</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I love you more than words can say!</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Thanks for making all of this possible.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I am one lucky girl.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Remember when I sat on Keith's leg to get this picture?</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Yep, I definitely did that.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I remember standing up,</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">peering behind me,</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">and feeling the awareness creep in.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"I totally just sat on your leg, didn't I?"</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"Yep."</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"Oh. my. gosh.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I am sooooo sorry!!!</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">oh my gosh!"</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">And then the awareness actually penetrated deeply enough into that thick skull of mine to hit my brain.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"Oh no.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Oh my gosh.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I totally adjusted too.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">-wiggled and wriggled around to catch my balance.-</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Oh you are <i>kidding</i> me!!!"</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Becca can't even breathe at this point.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Haley's crying on the floor.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">And Keith just smiles and shakes his head.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Yup.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I am a little hussy.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">And an absolute idiot.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">but what's new?</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The end.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">who simply shakes his head when I do all the dumb things I do.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">gotta love him.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">and the fat sacs,</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">of course.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">we couldn't have done it without you.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">and no I'm not talking about Haley.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">hehehe kidding seester.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Keith bought these bags that can carry up to <b>400lbs</b> of water apiece.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">The technology amazes me.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">The physics of filling it seemed crazy awesome before I realized there was a pump sucking the water in.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">but it's all good.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">39. watching my man drive</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I love that he can drive a boat.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">and a motorcycle.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">and a 4-wheeler.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">and a bike.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">and a horse.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">He's my little studmuffin.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Thanks to his family for keeping him so well-rounded.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">yum, yum, and yum!!!</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Daddy's steaks are seriously the best.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">41. wakeboarding</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">let's all be honest,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">watching Parker wakeboard is the real treat.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I can't wait to post pics of the nonsense he pulled behind the Malibu at Powell.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">42. extending our vacation</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">convincing my boss to extend my vacation for 2 days.</span></div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><i>pro!</i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">driving all the way home and back and rescheduling our flights in less than 24hrs time.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><i>con!</i></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">convincing Parker to let me bring Molly for her first houseboat trip </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>ever</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><i>pros!</i></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>and</i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><i>cons!</i></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>but mostly</i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><i>priceless.</i></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">43. riding with Molly</span></span></div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">can you tell how much Parker's <i>loving</i> this?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"I am not stopping for her one more time."</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"Babe! Think of her like a baby. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">A big, chubby, furry brown baby."</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"I wouldn't stop for a baby either."</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"For real? You're just going to tell our kids tough luck anytime we take a road trip?"</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"Yup.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Or hand them a bottle."</span></div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"Classy Parker."</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"Every time I stop, everyone we just passed passes us."</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"Think of it like a game!"</span></div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">cue sequence of exasperated expressions.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">eye roll. sigh. crusty.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"We need one of those little baby gates."</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">The irony of it all?</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Molly slept like a ROCK the whole way home.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">43. getting Molly to bed</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">So I felt like a total jerk the first time I tried to teach her how to hop up here.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">She hesitated nervously, staring down the tall platform.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I nodded reassuringly, patting the sleeping back with animated,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"You can do it Molly's!"</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Finally she believed me,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">took a two foot running start at the bed,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">heaved half her body onto it,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">and pawed at the sleeping bag to try and hoist the remainder of her brown body up,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">but to no avail.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The little brown tank slid the silky sleeping bag right off the bed and onto the floor.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I eventually convinced her to try again and helped her make up the difference with a little nudge.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Poor pup...she fell right to sleep.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">44. seeing Molly jump off the dock</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The little chicken wouldn't do it!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">She <i>loves</i> the water, but she's only ever been to a river.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">She can't seem to manage braving doing anything other than leaping in like a little gazelle.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">And now I understand why.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">When we finally convinced her to take the plunge.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i>PLOP.</i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Molly did a face plant/somersault right into the water.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">And the poor little pup with no thumbs couldn't even plug her nose!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Loads of water up the snout=no more attempts at dock diving.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">with a working camera, mind you!!!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">46. FRIENDS</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I was so happy to have Tiff & Kelsey out for the week.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Kels came for a quick visit before her big move back to Utah.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">congrats on the engagement by the way!!!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">December 17 people.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">mark your calendars!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">And we convinced Tiff to squeak in one teeny, tiny, final vacation before she packed up and headed off to the MTC.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">And then on to Paraguay!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">What better way to start her adventures than with an adventure, right?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Not to mention the fact that she's been out here so many years now it just wouldn't have been a trip without her.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I was SO excited to have her come...</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">so excited, in fact, that I even let her cheat me out of a win in Name That Tune.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">You, however, are still not forgiven Miss Haley White.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">>:o</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">47. pictures with Tiff</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">are always priceless.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">oh my!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I will miss this the next 18 months.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I will miss this dearly.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">48. falling down the water slide for the first time ever</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I think someone tugged at the rope before I had my balance.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I'm not 100% sure.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">It all happened so quickly.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">hehehe. i had to say it.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">cliche! cliche! cliche!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">By the time I realized what was happening, I'd toppled over and shot down the falls backwards into the icy cold mountain run-off.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">21 years accident free.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">and then <i>this</i>...</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">haha just kidding!!!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I did fall.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">But it really didn't hurt at all like I thought it would.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I came out in one frozen little piece.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">49. Daddy's little girls</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I love my Dad.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">And I LOVE houseboat time with my Dad.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">He's the best captain.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">the best cook.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">the best cove finder.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">the best cribbage player.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">the best tour guide.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">and the best daddy a daughter could ask for.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">He knows I'll always be his little girl,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">but I know he still loves to hear me say it.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Love you Daddy!!!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">And though it's questionable,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Haley probably does too...</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">note: Dad also had a nasty spill on one of the rocks.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Tore a muscle in his leg-</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">which later turned completely black.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">bleck...</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">He hobbled his way through the rest of the hike as if nothing had happened</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">and as of September, he is still on the mend!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Poor Daddy Dave...</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I'm now embarrassed I even made mention of my waterfall fall.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">51. Tiff finding said flip-flop</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">oh happy day!!!</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">so Tiff.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I assumed swimming with the four of us would be much more efficient than the three-spoked model.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Each swimmer could act as a limb.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">simple right?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">wrong.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Lazy Haley wouldn't kick.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Tiff tried to use her flip-flops as oars.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">And Kelsey and I ended up spinning us in circles by picking up all the slack.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">It's like a kayak.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">You can't all paddle on the same side.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Eventually we made it home,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">but not before about 3 mutinies along the way.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">That is why I bring the camera.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">No one can attempt to drown you and/or get you wet.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I never should've sent the blasted thing with Parker.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">53. Hand & Foot with the Corbridges</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">my favorite game people <i>ever</i></span></div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">and the best <i>Ma & Pa </i>a girl could ever wish to find.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Or be assigned to.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">But just like real kids, helped guide us along our journey on the Pioneer Trek and have loved us ever since!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Their competitive spirit is so entertaining.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Their energy & enthusiasm's infectious.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">And whether Kimble's rockin to Rascal Flatts on the wakeboard</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">or Linda's bringing home the Hand & Foot win for the girls,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">they're a blast to be with.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">So happy they could come out this year!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">54. mom trying to find service</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Poor Mom couldn't catch a break!</span></div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">You'd think everyone could leave her be for just a week...</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">let her enjoy her vacation,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">her family,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">her finite window of opportunity for a little peace of mind.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">But I suppose that's never the case when so many needy people have needs</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">and Mom's the kind of person who's always so incredibly willing to help.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Thank goodness for the few coves without service!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">And FYI, I've appointed myself her personal secretary next year.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">You want her,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">you're gonna have to go through me.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">he he he</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">55. jumping off the top of the houseboat</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">for the more advanced students: trying to catch a tennis ball while jumping off the top of the houseboat</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">It is much harder than you think.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">And not fun when you have three hucked at your head at once.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">snow-capped as we're in 100-degree heat.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">craziness!!!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">57. watching the yahoos fight the current</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I'm curious to know what makes it so strong in certain areas.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">We were near the dam...</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">hmm.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I am too tired to think of an answer and,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">have decided I don't actually care.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Feel free to enlighten me.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">who love you even when your friends don't because you refused to swim.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">k they still loved me,</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">but they did harass me.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">And the water + the breeze = frigidness!!!</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">so wasn't happening.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">59. shasta dam</span></span></div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b>3460 </b>ft long</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b>602 </b>ft high </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b>543 </b>ft wide</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">created the <b>largest reservoir </b>in all California.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">constructed between <b>1938 </b>and <b>1945</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">at which time it was ranked as one of the greatest civil engineering feats in the <b>world</b>.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">All I want to know...</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">could you live if you rode down it like a water slide?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I'm just sayin'...</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">You can bet this group had a party!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I am so grateful for all the fun the Corbridges & Tingleys brought to the boat.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">It takes a special group to acclimate to houseboat life...</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">the decibel,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">the chaos,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">the laughter,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">the humor,</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">the games.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">But they took it all in stride!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">You should see them play Buzz Word!!!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">62. swimming with Molly</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Do you have a sound solution to getting an 80lb lab back onto a boat that's 3 feet off the water?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Poor Molly <i>loves</i> to swim.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">But until we could think of a way to get her in</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">-remember she won't jump-</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">and, more importantly, get her out</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">we simply couldn't let her join in on the fun after we'd pulled away from land.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">She cried and cried and cried.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i>"It's nod fair. I's wants ta swim! I's a gud sweemer!"</i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">And finally we felt so guilty we decided to improvise.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I should be replacing the "we's" with "I's."</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I had very minimal support/help.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">But regardless...</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Enter blue mat.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Molly's entrance ramp.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">one person holds it in place above the ladder as another in the water angles it out,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">thus creating a ramp.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">And an adult XL life jacket</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">as Molly's never required a dog one. But in case she had some sort of panic attack as we tried to hoist her our the water, I intended to take every precaution.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The little brown dog inched her way down nervously,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">failing to realize that the slower she went, the more quickly her flimsy ramp morphed into a U-shaped cradle.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Finally we'd lower the whole thing into the water and let her just doggy paddle away.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I thought swimming would calm her cries.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">She got what she wanted, right?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">But no.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">My genius dog swam around like a little spaz,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">clueless that she had a life preserver,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">a floaty,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">and ten people in the water who could help her.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I gave up on the idea of swim time and had my Mom attempt to snag the ramp back to we could try to hoist her in.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">No chance.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Molly decided to steal the mat.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">And the more I tried to pry it away, the more tightly she held on.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">At this point I'm just feeling guilty, so I attempt to climb out and find an alternative exit strategy.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Brown dog sees me headed toward the ladder and shoots over like a bullet,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">barreling through like a bull in a china shop and knocking me straight out of the way.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">She begins to paw her way up the ladder,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">forgetting it's </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">A. a 90-degree incline and that she</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">B. carries most her weight on her backside</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">and </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">C. has no thumbs to steady herself even if she knew how to effectively maneuver her weight.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I swim over to attempt to pry her paws loose from the rungs before realizing she is actually more of a human than I thought.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">She will<i>. </i>not. let. go.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The dog with no thumbs would not let go.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">How does that even work?!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Regardless, she held tight.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Finally Dad decided to intervene.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">He snagged the little pup by the vest and hoisted her back into the boat.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Crisis averted.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">You'd think Molly'd learn...</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">think she'd have a few emotional scars from the experience and decide to call it a day.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">But no.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Every time we swim--there's Molly!!!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">begging away to come back in.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I will never understand my dog.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">But I do love her dearly.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">It was like having a little kid out again.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">And hassle or not,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I loved every minute of Miss Molly Brown's Houseboat Adventure.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">is she not the cutest brown thing you ever did see?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I think that's the whole crew!!!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">64. waking up to the sunrise</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">65. being able to say goodbye</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">knowing you'll be saying hello again.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">only 8 months now!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">amazing how time flies.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Thanks again for a fabulous vacation!!!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">It's no wonder we so love June...</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">happy 100th post team!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I find myself defaulting to this phrase quite a bit lately.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>No joke.</b></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Ask me about my new job.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>Learning curve</i>: </span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">industry</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Ask me about my new haircut.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> styling</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Ask me about my new laptop.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><b><i>wtf!!!</i></b></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">there's an "x" is on the left!</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">why is there an "x" on the left?</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">and why do I have to "quit" even after i push it?</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">worthless piece of j...</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">oh wait! </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">it saved my doc.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">bless you, you little worthless "x" you!</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Whether I'm investigating the threat landscape driving enterprises to automate the management of encryption assets across their network infrastructures and in the cloud</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">(I promise that's written in English...),</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">or determining how to manage a hairstyle I haven't had since I was four</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(it's a tightrope walk between the look that's sassy & sophisticated or a throwback to my first-day-of-kindergarten),</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">or realizing that it'd be wiser to trouble-shoot before flipping a brick over my brand new Mac's screen brightness function key being <i>broken</i></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(perhaps I might have noticed how the keyboard backlight's rapid fluctuations perfectly matched the pattern of my furious tapping...),</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I should have known the Macbook Pro would designate a key for each function.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">This sophisticated machine continues to expose my ineptitude for operating such refined equipment.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">i hate it.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">but i love it.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"> mwahaha</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">:)</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I'm simply working past a learning curve.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">segue to the point of this post</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I believe marriage is much the same way.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">And though I'm convinced no one ever <i>completely</i> makes it past the learning curve</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(with every life change promising a number new challenges</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">i.e. how to divvy up responsibility for insomniatic babies, whether to take a good cop/bad cop approach with sassy kiddos or ally against them, what to do once elderly Chelsey develops dementia and starts trying to ditch her clothes and run away from home)</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I think you round a few considerable corners the first year.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Which, I believe, is exactly what we did.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">That's right.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Happy <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">first anniversary</span> to me!</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">woo woo woo woo woo!</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">We're a few months late celebrating here in cyber space, but may it be known,</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">on </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">may 12</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> of this year,</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">we joined the ranks of marriage</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">veterans</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">yes I am claiming that title.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">no, I dont' <i>really</i> think we've earned it just yet.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">simmer down sparky.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Parker and I still feel a bit lost on why advice for newlyweds so often includes well wishes for surviving the first year or promises that it <i>will </i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">get better. </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Truth is,</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">we thought it was great!</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> </span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">every bit of it.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br /></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>Of course</b></span> we made adjustments along the way.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Of course</span></b> we had our moments where we were so spitting mad we wished we could bop a bit of sense into the other</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">or even push 'em off the bed.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I'm not saying it happened.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I'm just saying it could be a sweet</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">-and mildly hilarious</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">-</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">release.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Don't act like you've never thought about it.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>Of course</b></span> we disagreed on what to buy, where to eat, what to do, who to see, and every dumb little thing in between.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">i.e. last night.</span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"Chels,you can't have the whole sheet."</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I shoot Parker a sharp look before begrudgingly wriggling my way out of it and handing over his half.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">He sits up, fluffs it, smooths it, then plops down right on top of it.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"What are you <i>doing</i>?"</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"Going to sleep."</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"No...what are you doing with the sheet?"</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"I'm laying on it."</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"Shouldn't you be under it?"</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"It's just so <i><b>hot</b>.</i> Why's it always so beedin' hot?"</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"You little stink. Why did you ask for it if you didn't even need it?"</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"Because I wanted it."</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"You <i>wanted </i>it?"</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"Yup!"</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"Parker..."</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I begin sweetly.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"What?"</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">he replies in that same ominously sweet tone. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">He looks at me with wide, knowing eyes,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">daring me to make the call for surrender.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"Give it back."</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"No."</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"But you're not even <i><b>using</b></i> it."</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"I might get cold later."</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"But I'm cold right <u>now</u>..."</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"Use the blanket."</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"That blanket's the size of a towel."</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"It's still a blanket..."</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"Then you should use it."</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"It's too small."</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"<i style="font-weight: bold;">Exactly</i>..."</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"Well, where's the blanket you usually use?"</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"On the floor."</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"You should get it."</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"<i><b>You</b> </i>should<i> </i>get it."</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"I'm not the one who's cold."</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"You're right. I should get the sheet. You can grab the blanket <i style="font-weight: bold;">if</i> you get cold. </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Now give it back."</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"No."</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"Give. it. back."</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"<b>No!</b><i>"</i></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">And just like that the game of tug-of-war begins.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I wind myself tighter and tighter in the sheet, rolling hard to the left in a last ditch attempt to wrench the remainder of the sheet out from under him </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">when suddenly,</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">he relents,</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">sending me flying off the edge of the bed all cocooned up in that stupid sheet.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">And what do I land on?</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">That stupid blanket.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Parker breaks into hysterics, laughing away in his little Scooby Doo giggle.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"Baby! Did you find the blanket okay?"</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I shimmy up to a sitting position,</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">my nose edging up over the side of the bed.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">My eyes narrow.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"Nope,"</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I quip,</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">then plop back onto the bed like the same snuggly little sheet bug I'd been 5 minutes prior. </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"I love you baby."</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"I lov-a you too Chels."</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">And then we fell to sleep.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">The end.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">But I suppose we just always expected we would.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">We were as </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">young</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> and </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><i>crazy in love</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> as the next couple.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">As </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>idealistic</b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> and </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">optimistic</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> about our future</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">and </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><i>every bit as happy</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I just don't think either of us were naive enough to believe that our being a perfect match meant every moment of our forever could or would or should be perfect too.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(not to say we haven't come incredibly close).</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">With that said,</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">here's a post in tribute to </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><i>our</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> first year.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">A brief sketch of the many reasons were out of our minds </span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">happy</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> and so </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">helplessly</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">, so </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><b>hopelessly</b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">, so </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><i>desperately</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> in love we could hardly stand it.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">And a bit of insight on those moments of understanding, humility, and forgiveness that helped </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">refine</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> and </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><i>redefine</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> that love.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(note the silver lining of life's little learning curves).</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i>happy reading & happy first anniversary to us...</i></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span">we have our own interpretations of </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">a</span><b>ffection</b></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">After a whole year-and-a-half spent fawning over each other,</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">you'd think we'd have rounded this learning curve like an All-American sprinter.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Unfortunately, I'm pretty sure that sprinter's in need of an intensive nose job with how flat we fell on our faces.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">It turns out we weren't only on different pages with respect to this facet of marriage, we were reading different novels altogether.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b>me? needy? <i>never</i>....</b></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b>Parker? impassive? <i>no way...</i></b></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">hmm...perhaps we need to redefine what it means to really love and be loved.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">because one or the other HAS to be the case if we're this split on our interpretations of the situation...</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">right?</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Wrong.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">We quickly realized we'd simply encountered a little hiccup that had nothing to do with either of us being an overly-insecure, compliment & cuddle craving, excessive reassurance seeking head case or detached, unfeeling, emotionless narcissist of a robot.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Nope.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">We simply had very different interpretations of affection.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">My fluency in all 5 love languages made me crave the emotional expressions of love valued for their affective appeal,</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> while Parker's validation stemmed from the one, maybe two categories that could be gauged by basic logic.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">And because pitting emotion against logic never makes for a fun fight,</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">we decided to have it out and over with ASAP.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">and may I say it is THE</span> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">smartest thing we ever did!</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">The result:</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Parker made a concerted effort to elaborate beyond "I love you's" and abandon his anti-PDA tendencies on occasions a cuddle or kiss would mean oh-so-much to his oh-so-smitten wife,</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">while Chelsey willed to remember why she so loved his short-but-sweet affirmations of adoration and acknowledge his many subtle expressions of love.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">The determination:</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">He absolutely, positively meant every word he said,</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">even if those words were few.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">And she knew, without question, how deeply he loved her;</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">she simply needed,</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">every now and again,</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">to hear and remember the reasons why.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span">we be</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large; font-weight: bold;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large; font-weight: bold;">b</span><span class="Apple-style-span">usy</span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">MYTH: When you promise marriage and promise forever you have the promise of spending every second of every day of the rest of eternity together.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">While that's true in theory,</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I think it's safe to say reality never got the memo.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">We've been burning the candle at both ends from the moment we met.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> And marriage, if anything, accelerated our pace from a sprint to an I-forget-what-saliva-feels-like-and-will-be-upchucking-all-my-vital-organs-in-t-minus-10-seconds pace.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">But this time the clock met its match.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Projects, meetings, homework, deadlines...</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">nothing distracted us from making our marriage a priority.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Not that that's much of an accomplishment--</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">it's easy to make time for the best part of your day.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Aside from bapples</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Parker's mine</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">and aside from biking</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> I'm his.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Plain and simple.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">And whether we connect for 20 minutes before bed or get away from it all over the weekend,</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">we always find our way back to each other.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">:)</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">miss you already baby...</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">we</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><b>c</b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">ommunicate</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">say what you mean and mean what you say.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">our best married friends call it content communication.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">If you're upset and he asks what's wrong, tell him.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">If you ask him how it looks and he says beautiful, believe him.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">If she's planning away your weekend and you're iffy on the guest list, let her know.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">If he's missing every hint, please ask for it.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">And if you need her help, just say so.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Have we mastered this?</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Of course not.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">That would mean ditching every deeply ingrained default response and intuitive communication strategy for being 100% honest, authentic, and candid with each other 100% of the time.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">We still have those moments where my thinking the answer is so glaringly obvious he should just <i>know</i> is interpreted as a situation that requires an advanced method of mind-reading.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">But we're doing exceptionally well.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Because, really, what can't you say when you know love's unconditional?</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span">we</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large; font-weight: bold;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large; font-weight: bold;">d</span>ownhill mountain bike</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I am a terrible student.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Not in the sense that I'm slow on the uptake</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">or have difficulty grasping concepts.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I'm just not the most teachable being on the planet.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">This is evidenced, quite clearly, in my approach to mountain biking.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Parker's happy we have a hobby we can share and so enthusiastic about teaching me all the tips and tricks.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Meanwhile, I'm miffed that I'm not an instant pro and livid that little weenie me is holding him back. </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">He thinks I'm progressing famously,</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I feel like I can't escape my ineptitude fast enough.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">But as often as I'm a stinker on the trail,</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">he still can't help but smile seeing me out there on my "sexy" bike.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">And I can't help but think how lucky I am to have a husband whose love grows for those things he already loves to do when I'm there by his side loving it all too.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">And I do love it.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I really do.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">And my new sexy bike too!</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Besides, my competitive side's always needed a healthy dose of humility.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Better I learn from bikes than babies, right?</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Those little munchkins will suffer enough without having to battle a crazy critical self-appointed sideline-coach of a soccer mom too.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">we like</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><b>e</b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">ndorphins</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Exercise gives you endorphins.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Endorphins make you happy.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Happy people just don't shoot their husbands;</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">they just don't!</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Leave it to Elle to articulate this better than I ever could.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I've realized two things here.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">A. The word "shoot" can be replaced with any action that takes the happy out of a </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">happy marriage.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">resent. belittle. needle. nag. discount. disregard. distrust.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">etc. etc. etc.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">and B. It works both ways!</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Happy husbands don't [insert verb here] their wives either.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Because we're both endorphin junkies,</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">we both make it a point to <i><b>try</b></i>,</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">key word here,</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">to make exercise a priority.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Because really, what's healthy for you will, </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">99.9% of the time,</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">be healthy for your relationship too.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Just a few of the plusses?</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Thinking our sexy spouses are that much sexier?</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Plus.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> Finding a quick fix for that rush of natural euphoria?</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Plus.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Feeling better equipped and more motivated to tackle energy-sapping projects & assignments?</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Plus.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Taking a few mental health breaks from crazy busy weeks to take care of ourselves?</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Plus.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Feeling better about ourselves and our appearances?</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Plus.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Having that confidence translated into our relationship?</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Plus.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Being able to spend time together doing the things we love? </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Plus. Plus. Plus.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">luv 'dem endorphins</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">and gittin' dem wit my luver-baby.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">i'm his bestest <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><b>f</b></span>riend</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">and he's mine.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">It's funny.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Included in the long list of summer posts I've yet to write are a couple posts dedicated to the weddings of two of my very best friends.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Can you guess what I wanted to title them?</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"My best friend's wedding."</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">and the award for originality goes to...</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">anyone BUT the hypocritical girl who's undermined her post dedicated to combatting cliches on so many occasions you almost have to feel sorry for her.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">But I quickly realized,</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">A. there's </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b>2</b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"> best friends and </span><b>1 </b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">title</span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">you little creative genius you!</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">and B. the title's a bit misleading anyway.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Because in truth,</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">my best friend's wedding was on a windy Wednesday last May.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I remember every detail.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">but how could I forget?</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">it's the day he married me.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">When I asked Parker to explain why we're best friends he simply said,</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"Best friends do everything together. And I want you with me all the time."</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">He elaborated on how many couples live his & hers lives.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Hobbies and vacations become getaways where you get to do what you<b> </b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">want to do or feel like you can't do when you're together.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"There hasn't ever been a moment where I questioned whether or not I'd be happier having you there with me. I always want you to see what I'm seeing and do what I'm doing because I know you'll love it just like I do and I know I'll love it more because you're there. Besides, at the end of the day, you're the first one I want to talk to about all of it anyway. Think of all the time we'd save catching up if you were there experiencing it with me from the start."</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Oh my sweet, logical boy.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">But it's true.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Having Parker by my side makes the best day even better.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I've never smiled so much in my life</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">and never met anyone who makes me laugh quite like he does.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">details on Parker's funnies still to come.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">He's listens to me chatter away and always cares what I have to say.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">He's let's me know he's mine and makes sure I know I'm his.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">He's my best ally, my closest confidant, and my biggest fan.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">He tells me I'm beautiful</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">inside and out, </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">even when I feel so very far from it.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">And the most beautiful thing about it is that he really does believe it.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">He loves me unconditionally,</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">loves me more than I know,</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">and though he insists it can't be true,</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I still think I love him more.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">We're always on the same page</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">and always happier together.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">And at the end of the day,</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">he's the friend I want to share all life's adventures with.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">best. friends. forever. baby.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">we're pretty lucky.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">we love the </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><b>g</b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">ospel</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I'm convinced that all the love in the world could not compensate for what we would lose if we didn't have the blessings of the Gospel in our lives and in our marriage.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I genuinely believe that a marriage built upon principles of faith, hope, charity, and love brings greater possibilities for happiness than anything we'll find in this world or the next.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">And having that promise of forever,</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>knowing</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> my temple marriage can transcend time</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">and keep me with the love of my life for all eternity</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">just as long as I continue to live worthy of those blessings,</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">is all the motivation I need.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">And the reality of it is,</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">when we're living the Gospel of Jesus Christ</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">--when we're strengthening our testimonies by magnifying our callings, listening in our meetings, attending the temple, studying the scriptures, kneeling together in prayer, and living worthy of the Spirit--</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">we're exponentially happier in our marriage anyway.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Our relationship sweetens,</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">our love strengthens,</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">our appreciation for one another grows,</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">and we have so much more hope for the future knowing our Heavenly Father will be there to guide us to it.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">This is the kind of marriage we want,</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">and this is the kind of marriage we will always work to keep.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">We've felt the difference</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">and we're convinced,</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">living, learning, and loving the Gospel brings <i>real</i> happiness to our marriage</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">and so. much. more.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">You can read about what we believe <a href="http://mormon.org/">here</a> and <a href="http://lds.org/?lang=eng">here</a>.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">we cut <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><b>h</b></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">air</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">These are not buzz cuts where you simply set the level and try to keep a straight line.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">In fact, for the first little while, we had a strict no-razor policy.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Which I just discovered had not a single thing to do with our wanting to keep the length but everything to do with his not trusting me to take a razor to his precious blonde locks.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Have any of you similarly inexperienced non-cosmetologists ever attempted an all-scissor cut?</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">You really only have one of two options.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Be so precise and methodical in your scissor-maneuvering that the cutting process is painfully slow</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">or take the speedracer approach that almost always ends with you apologizing for the world's worst hack job and weakly promising the section you just snipped to smithereens will grow back <i>really</i> quickly.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Now, to my credit, we've only had one semi-traumatic scissor slip.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">In fact, we've even had a handful of GQ-worthy cuts too </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">if you don't look too closely.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">But even still, </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I think it's safe to say my skill sets translate better to sales & marketing than they ever will to styling.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">case-in-point</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Parker's since taken ownership of his cuts, enlisting my help with the back and only the back.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">which I'm totally ok with.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">because really baby,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">the back of yo head is ridic-a-lus anyway!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">ok.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">i don't even know what that meant.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">moving on...</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">we're still <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><b>i</b></span>ndividuals</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Every time I begin to think we've become this amoeba of a being,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I'm reminded of how we are still very much our own individuals.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">We have our own preferences, tastes, outlooks, and opinions.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">And while we're lucky they overlap as often as they do,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">and very lucky we're almost always on the same page,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">that doesn't <i>always </i>have to be the case for us to be happy.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">i.e.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Parker thinks it's wasteful,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">but unless he's willing to drink my nast-tastic cereal milk, it's going down the drain.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I think using nail polish to fix the paint chips on his bike is pointless,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">but unless I can think of a more economical solution, he'll be painting away like a pro.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">It's the same thing with kissing pictures,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">words with Friends,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">trips with friends,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">my iPhone,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">gum wrappers,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">flossing,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">unpacking,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">kisses before bed,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">gum in the garbage,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">make-up in the car,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">shower curtains,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">couch covers,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">kitchen table clutter,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">laundry</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">etc. etc. etc.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">But notice,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">while all these make for fun run-ins and equally funny stories,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">not one of the items on the list is a deal breaker.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">And so long as that's the case,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I can appreciate every one of our differences.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Because really,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">what fun would it be being married to an opinion-chameleon anyway?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">we <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><b>j</b></span>oke around</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I'm convinced that laughter is essential to a truly happy marriage.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">It's the reason for many of my happiest moments with Parker,</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">and the sound that echoes in the framework of my best memories.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Laughter's contagious quality is so sweet to me,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">and I've seen the ways that sense of playfulness can positively impact our marriage.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">It bring us closer together,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">gives us greater perspective,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">and opens us up to all kinds of new experiences.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">What kind of fun can you have when you take every second so seriously?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">seriously!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I <i>love</i> that we can be silly together.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I <i>love</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> our playful altercations, our inside jokes, our invented social cues, our well-intentioned teasing, and our dumb little language too!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Parker wanted me to omit the last line because he didn't want people to think we're one of <i>those</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"> couples.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">but i love it too much to leave it out.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">so...maybe look at it as a more intelligible form of minion-speak with the occasional hint of hillbilly & ebonics.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">And because I hope you'll be able to fully appreciate why it is that I find my husband so hilarious,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">here are a few gems from the past week.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">enjoy</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">:)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span><br />
<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">When a friend suggested Parker </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">invest his back-to-school shopping funds toward a smarter smart phone.</span></b><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"Dude, that's why I'm taking it to school!"</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><b>As we watched the cutest little be-goggled toddler learning how to swim.</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"Babe..."</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"What's up?"</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"Could you teach me how to float?"</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"Oh Park, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">everyone knows how to float!</span>"<br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"I don't..."</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">he whispers and drops his head in shame.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"I...I'm all muscle!</span>"<br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">cue dramatic sigh.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I know...</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">the poor baby.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><b>The day Parker couldn't find an open Mac at the library.</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"Do you remember what it's like to use a PC?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I had to push down so hard on all those keys...</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I felt like I was playing the organ!"</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"You don't play the organ Park."</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"Well that's why!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Who'd wanna do that to their fingers? </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">And then there's the tower just chillin' there takin' up the whole freakin' table. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">If you can put a computer in a phone I'm pretty sure you can make a tower smaller than a cinderblock."</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">etc. etc. etc.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">He'd had a rough day.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">:)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><b>The day I came home with a new haircut.</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"What do you think?"</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"Wait, wait, wait!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I can do this."</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"You can do <i>what</i>?"</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"Shhhhhh...</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>just listen</i>.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">cue monologue of a dialogue.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">'Baby do you like my hair?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>Yes baby, I love your hair!</i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">You really like it?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>I really </i><b>really</b><i> like it!</i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Oh baby, you don't like it.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>No I do! It's beautiful!</i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>Like a surfer chick or businesswoman.</i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Really? You really think so?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>I <b>really</b> think so.'</i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i><br /></i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">The end."</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"Wow. I'm so glad we had that chat."</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"Yeah, you know, I feel pretty good about it too."</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><b>The weekend I suggested we grab sushi and catch a movie.</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"We'll eat 'dem sushis den go to a movie!"</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><b>When I packed my pink & white dress to wear to church in Richfield last Sunday.</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"Babeeeee...you picked this one?<b> </b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">You look like the girl from the Sprint commercials!"</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"You mean T-Mobile?"</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"That's whud I said."</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"That is so not what you said."</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"Pretty sure it's whud I said.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Don't worry, I bet you just had bad service.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Not everyone can rule the air."</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Apparently my husband is both a fashion critic AND Verizon's newest spokesman.<br />Congratulations sweetheart.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><b>When I wondered about whether or not I'd have crazy bedhead in the morning.</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"I just really hope my hair sleeps well."</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"Well baby--hurry up and put it to bed!"</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">hardy har har.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><b>When asked Parker to cuddle sickly little me to sleep.</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">He'd banned me from nap time in the bedroom earlier that day because I'd been, quote, "too wiggly" when we'd tried to cuddle on the couch.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"Baby, I'm so sick of bein' a germ bucket! </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I jus' wanna go home, cuddle up in your arms, and fall right to sleep. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Doesn't that sound so nice?"</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"Ya...it's just...well...</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">baby I really do want you to feel better.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I really do! </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">But if it's anything like the couch, I just don' wan' it!"</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>"</i>Ouch Parker."</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"I didn't mean it!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Okay I meant it.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Maybe the nighttime drugs will help you lie still?"</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">He wasn't kidding.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">He's been pushin' pills on me since 6 o'clock tonight too.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Apparently they take a "really long time" to kick in.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Oh Parker!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I'd wonder about you if I didn't know how much you love me.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I know you really do have my best interests at heart.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">and sometimes yours too</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">:)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><b>When we had our hands full carrying all our luggage downstairs and Parker looked like a handicap trying to turn the lights off with a hanger.</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">After watching him struggle for a good 30 seconds.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"Here sweetie, I have a free hand. Let me get it."</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"Stop babe!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Lemme get this.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I wanna get this for myself."</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">He furrows his brow in persistence as I about wet my pants.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">love my little handicap</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">:)</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">we like to <b style="font-size: xx-large;">k</b>iss</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">love sweet kisses!</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">love 'em when we say hello.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">love 'em when we say goodbye.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">love 'em when we first wake up.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">love 'em when we say goodnight.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">love 'em when we're being nice</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">and sayin' sorry for being mean.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">i'll love sweet kisses all my life</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">so long as they're with Parker B. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">i know, i know, i know!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">rhyming is for babies and first grade poetry pieces.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">but did you really think I was going to sit here and write a dissertation on how the positive associative effects of kissing make for a stronger, sweeter, spice-up-your-life type marriage?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">i didn't think so... </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">we say i <b style="font-size: xx-large;">l</b>ove you</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"Parker, I'm writing a blog..."</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"beedin' blog..."</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">thank you Mr. Bad Attitude.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">This is off to a great start.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"...and it's all about you so you might even read it!"</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"super...."</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"Lovely. K, so what is it that surprised you most about our first year of marriage?"</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"That girls like to ask beedin' questions like,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>what surprised you most about our first year of marriage?</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"Great start sweetie.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">unfortunately, that's not really the angle I'm going for.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Let's try again"</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"That girls are so beedin'."</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Cue my O-KAY-I-understand-you-don't-care-about-this-but-this-very-simple-question-requires-maybe-two-brain-cells-to-come-up-with-a-very-simple-answer-and-the-sooner-we-do-it-the-sooner-it's-done-and-the-sooner-ornery-you-can-go-to-sleep!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">He cuts me off close to the start.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"You didn't let me finish."</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"Oh?"</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"I was most surprised that girls are so beedin' insecure."</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"Okay! Progress. Would you care to elaborate on that?</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">"</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"Nope."</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"I think you should elaborate on that..."</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"If I do, will you let me go to sleep?"</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"Of course sweetie."</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"Fine.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I just don't think girls hear anything guys say.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">example:</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">every night, you're like</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i><b>Parker, do you love me?</b></i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; font-size: small;"></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">And I'm like,</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i><b>Of course I love you baby.</b></i></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">And you're like,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i><b>No you don't. You don't love me.</b></i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">And I'm like,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i><b>Yes I do! I really do love you baby.</b></i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">And you're like,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><b><i>But </i><u>WHY</u><i> do you love me?</i></b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">And I'm like,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i><b>Oh baby, I love you cuz you're so beautiful and cuz you're my best friend.</b></i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">And then you're like,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i><b>Those aren't good things</b></i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i><b>cuz you always say those things.</b></i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i><b>Tell me 4 good things.</b></i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">And so I tell you 4 good things.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">And you're like,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i><b>I know all those things too! </b></i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i><b>I want to know new <u>reasons</u>.</b></i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">And I'm like,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><b><i>I just love you very much baby! </i></b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><b><i>Can't I just love you very much?</i></b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">And you're still like,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><b><i>Nope, you gots ta have reasons!</i> </b> </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">And I'm like,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><b><i>I tolded you all my reasons.</i></b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">And then I'm like,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><b><i>Why do you love <u>ME</u>?</i></b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">And you're like,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><b><i>I already know why I love you.</i></b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><b><i>I just don't know why you love me.</i></b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">And then I'm like,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><b><i>Oh my gosh. Kill me now.</i></b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">And then you gets your feelings all hurt because you's a girl.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">And I has to be all nice even though I'm sooooo tired.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">so I cuddle you and hold you and give you lots of tisses.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">And then,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">just before I fall asleep </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">you tiss my cheek and say,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><b><i>so you really do love me?</i></b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">True story.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Girls is beedin' insecure."</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I try to suppress a laugh.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"Is that all?"</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"That's all."</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"Okay...so in summary,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">what most surprised you about marriage is that you can't ever seem to say 'I love you' enough.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Did I get it all?"</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I smile.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"You got it all,"</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">he laughs and he pulls me close.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"I love you beeder."</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"Love you too little beeder-ette."</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><b>-three things before we move on-</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">1. What you've just read is a dramatization of real life events--</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">please note that Parker's heavily biased account is <i>maybe </i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">50% accurate.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">2. We've included this sketch for your entertainment. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">The opinions expressed here are those of a quipping couple and do not necessarily reflect the real views of </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Mr. or Mrs. Parker B. DeMille.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">3. For the record--</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Those three-little-words-that-mean-so-much still mean so much to us.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">We <i>love</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> saying "i love you" and showing our love too.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">because as cliche as it may sound,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">when Parker & I can see that we love each other in what we say <i><b>AND</b></i> do,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">our <i>i love you's</i> mean so much more.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">we make <b style="font-size: xx-large;">m</b>esses</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">do you ever feel like you undo everything you've done so quickly that you wonder why you ever did anything at all?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I talked about this with my mother-in-law & sister-in-law quite a bit this weekend.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">And I can't help but think,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">if my mother-in-law managed to wash, feed, clean, clothe, raise, love, and pick up after 7 kids,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">and my sister-in-law can manage 4 boys' schedules and 30+ hours of football each week,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Parker & I can manage our little family of two.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">It's just a matter of finding an approach that doesn't let our schedules get the best of us,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">and one we'll both be good at sticking to too.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Parker's more-so a clean-as-you-go type while I'm definitely the deep-clean-do-it-all-at-once-or-not-at-all binge cleaner.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">It's made for an interesting dynamic in our relationship.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Parker unpacks the moment he's home from a trip; I live out of my bag til it's empty.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Parker tidies the dining room table often; I wait til I can sort through each piece of mail, return every item to its rightful place, and obliterate any and all signs of dirt, dust, grime, etc.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Parker does a few dishes at a time knowing he'll be more likely to want to take on the next stack if he doesn't burn out on the first; I commit myself to the sink until we've spot checked every last utensil.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I would've thought our varied approaches would make us a cleaning machine!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">But unfortunately, we work to one another's disadvantages.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Parker doesn't like to pick up as we go because it's too hard to do alone.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">And I don't agree with the out-of-sight, out-of-mind strategy because stowing everything away just to get it out of the way makes it that much more of a time-intensive task when you go to deep clean later.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I can't stand cluttered cupboards.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Parker loathes cluttered counters.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">How to compromise?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">We shall see.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">This is still a work in progress.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">We're working on developing a clearcut cleaning program that'll keep Parker sane through the work-week and save Chelsey from dedicating her whole Saturday to the cause.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">We'll see what we come up with.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">we <b style="font-size: xx-large;">n</b>eed A/C</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Let the battle of the thermostat begin!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Why is it that our body temperatures never seem to sync up quite the same way our brains do?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">seriously.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">On those nights Parker's convinced we live in a sauna,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I'm feeling like I'll be lucky to survive the night with all my fingers and toes. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">And this leads to all sorts of fun.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I crave the cozy warmth of cuddling he sees as torture.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">He's BFF's with the same fan that's made itself my enemy.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I bundle up in the pile blankets he wishes we'd confine to the hall cupboard.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">etc. etc. etc.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Though it's not making much sense,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I did pick this title for a reason.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">It would be oh so nice to have a thermostat;</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I feel very much at the mercy of the elements.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">But I suppose, if anything,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">that'd just compel us to adopt guerilla tactics.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">And I'm fairly certain Parker would agree with me when I say that this hot/cold war we're having is preferable to feeling like a couple of menopausal grandmas because we've reverted to making a sneaky temp changes behind each other's backs.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Oh the joys of the first apartment!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">At least we have a home to call our own</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">:)</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">we learn to live with each other's <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large; font-weight: bold;">o</span>CD</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Our hypocritical perspectives on this are hilarious.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I'd press Parker to file away his mental checklist so I could have him all to myself.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Parker'd plead with me to see off my project's tunnel vision train for the night so he could cuddle me to sleep. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">We'd heave heavy sighs of exasperation whenever the other couldn't quite part with his/her project,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">then somehow suppress those memories of neglect when we were the ones on the manic spree.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">two self-proclaimed perfectionists blind to their own unhealthy habits.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">too too funny.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Good news...</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">we finally recognized the similarity of our situations and realized how much we really are two little bugs in a rug.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">And because we've both had the opportunity to see it from both sides,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">we can sympathize with each other whenever the OCD bug strikes and either </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">A. be patient and work to help the other finish what they're so compelled to do</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">or</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">B. snuggle in close by their side and help them see that it's okay,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">healthy even,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">to take a break and spend a minute with you.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Our greatest strength can be our greatest weakness.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Who knew?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">we're <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><b>p</b></span>atient</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">as often as we imperfect beings can be.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Patience is tough!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">But it is also the indispensable virtue we must practice, practice, practice</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">when we fully acknowledge the fact that we'll be living together forever--</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">for <i>all</i> <b>time</b><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span>and<b> eternity.</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Patience helps us keep the peace in close quarters and helps us understand the true nature of unconditional love.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">When we have patience, we're able to keep peace on our home even when my less-than-lovable idiosyncrasies threaten to drive him up the wall.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">i.e.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">my chronic lateness</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">piles of clothes</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">knack for forgetting to refill the Brita</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">tendency to take over the kitchen table</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">with my purse and paper piles</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">excessive analogies</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">etc. etc. etc.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">and even when Parker's not-so-cute little quirks have me ready to pull my hair out</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">i.e.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">his nonchalant attitude toward high-priority assignments</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">affinity for folding <i>only</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> his half of the laundry pile</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">refusal to trade me for his side of the bed</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">resistance to sharing alarm clocks</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">etc. etc. etc.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> It's funny...</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">as I read through this list it all seems so petty.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">But in the heat of the moment,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">patience is the only thing that keeps us from spoiling a perfectly imperfect day with quick criticisms and snide comments.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">And the thing of it is,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">we oftentimes realize long after the moment's passed</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">that those less-than-lovable idiosyncrasies and not-so-cute quirks are actually quite endearing!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I love this quote from Elder Wirthlin's Conference address:</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>"Husbands, be patient with your wives; and wives, be patient with your husbands. Don’t expect perfection. Find agreeable ways to work out the differences that arise. Remember President David O. McKay’s wise counsel regarding marriage: keep your eyes wide open before marriage and half closed afterward. And perhaps, on occasion, our wives could get into the car and honk the horn while we, as husbands, get the children ready."</i></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><i><br /></i></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">Hmm...I can picture it all now except for one little detail--</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"> I'm only rushing to ready myself.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">my poor Parker!</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">good thing we're learning patience early.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">:)</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">we're <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><b>q</b></span>uirky</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Oh the places we could go with this part of the post!</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">We are <i>very </i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">unique individuals </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">with more cute little quirks than I can count.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">And while learning to live with one another's idiosyncrasies can be a feat,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">it has been, </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">without a doubt,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">at the top of the list of our first-year favorites.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Knowing Parker inside and out gives me that much more of him to love!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">And letting him know every piece of me has helped me embrace that vulnerability that allows you to really love and be loved too.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I've touched on our individual quirks all throughout this post,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">but here's a few more for curious minds like mine.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Chelsey:</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">in Parker's words</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">1. She picks out all the best parts of a trail mix package and leaves only the cashews, peanuts, and the raisins if she think they're too salty.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">2. She thinks she has to play all her Words With Friends moves on her iPhone before she falls to sleep. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">3. She thinks she needs to know everything and anything about <i>everything</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">. Everything sparks her curiosity.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">She'll read up on the life story of a politician whose name's just a plot prop in a movie <i>during</i> the movie or dedicate the entire dinner conversation to learning the backstory on friend's families we likely never meet.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Parker:</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">in Chelsey's words</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">1. Parker treats his cute little basil plant like a puppy. He talks to it, lets it outside each afternoon for a bit of sunlight, brings it in at night, pays for all sorts of plant vaccines </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">i.e. chemicals to keep the bugs away</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><i>, </i>and is absolutely ecstatic to show me anytime it's experienced a little growth spurt. It's seriously so cute.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">2. Parker can't stand</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"> wrinkling any of his dress clothes. He hangs them up the minute we're home from church. It's great that he takes care to keep his things looking nice & new--</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">he'll make it all last forever! </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">I just wish I had more time to check out my sexy husband. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">This is my <i>favorite</i> look on him by far.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">3. Parker doesn't like to be fussed over. He's very independent and feels guilty whenever someone to worries about him, does him a favor, or gives their time on his behalf.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">Luckily we learned we'd have to give AND take early enough in our marriage that he's always been great about letting me help.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">we need <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">r</span></b>esolution</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">The only problem,</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I need it now.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Parker likes it later.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">You can only imagine both our frustration when we're both absolutely exhausted and I</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(the girl who can't even <i>think</i> about sleep when things aren't settled)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">am pleading with my dear husband </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(the boy who's perfectly okay going to sleep upset b/c he knows he'll be much better equipped to handle it in the morning) </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">to talk it out.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">The husband who wants to sleep won't talk to the wife who needs to talk.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">And wife who needs to talk won't stop talking to the husband who needs to sleep.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Predicament?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I'd say so.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">But somehow we found our way to a compromise,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">and in doing so engineered a beautifully lush middle ground in what we'd both considered a desolate wasteland.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">We still have our moments where we wander in the brush for awhile before finding the way to our happy place,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">but we do always find our way there.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">And the more often we walk that path,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">the easier it is to find our way.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">we have <b style="font-size: xx-large;">s</b>ex</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">lots of it.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">:)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Can you tell I had Parker help me brainstorm our ABC's?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Let me recap the conversation for you,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"Ok sweetie. What about the <b>S</b>?"</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"sex."</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"Any other ideas?"</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"Mmmm...nope. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I can't think of anything else at the moment,"</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">cue his trademark coy, flirty smirk.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I've gone back-and-forth trying to decide whether or not to post this,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">but in the words of my very astute 10-year-old nephew after his first serious birds-and-the-bees chat,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>"When you're married, you can have all the sex you want!"</i></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Well said little one.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">And yes, intimacy is part of a happy marriage too.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">i'll leave you to sketch out all the reasons why on your own.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">these details are for Parker & me.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">:)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">you may all stop blushing.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">we're finished.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">you survived it.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">no need for rosy cheeks.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">we <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><b>t</b></span>alk</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">about <i>everything</i> and <i>anything</i>.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">and it is so much fun!</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">seriously.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">who knew talking to a boy could be so much fun?!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I've said this far too many times already,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">but it is amazing how often we are on the same page.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">And like, not only on the same page,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">but the same line,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">the same word,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">the same <i style="font-weight: bold;">consonant</i>!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">He's like my brain twin!!!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">my brain twin that sees the world from a boy's perspective.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I love it.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">seriously though,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I really believe that when you can really talk to each other...</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">when you can be really open and honest about how you're feeling, </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">what you think, </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">what you want,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">what you need...</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">when you can help each other grow by shooting straight about what might not be working</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">or where you can improve,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">or how you can be a better you,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">or I can be a better me,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">or we can be a better us...</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">when you're genuine and real and authentic in your relationship in your communication,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">the big issues don't seem quite so big</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">because you've been talking about them all along.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">There's no time for that build-up that lead to big blow-outs because it's already out there on the table.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">You both know where you stand, </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">and because you've talked about it,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">because you <i>can</i> talk about it,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">you're more likely to stand together.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">But that's just me.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I've never known how to mute myself,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">and try as he might,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Parker can't seem to find the button either.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">we'll be talking for a long, long time</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">:)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">btw...I love how talking's taught us to be good listeners too.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">yet another reason we don't drink coffee...</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">:)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">we try not to come <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">u</span></b>ndone</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">We are both perfectly imperfect people.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">............</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Chelsey can be persistent and cheeky.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Parker can be headstrong and confident.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Both can be <u>stubborn</u> and taken to <u>pride</u>.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">This means,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">on those occasions we disagree and decide we're determined to see it our own way,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">our best qualities become our worst.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Luckily, we've managed rather well.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I worried for awhile.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I knew, when provoked, I'd spew.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">And I knew Parker had a short fuse.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">It seemed like a lethal combination.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">But get this,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">it hasn't ever been an issue.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Okay, maybe the one time.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">But it didn't get ugly so it doesn't really count.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Maybe it's love?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Maybe it's what changed us.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I know it's the reason I'm so easygoing with Parker</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">and probably why he's so patient with me.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Whatever it is, </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">we've always made is a point to not come undone during our little tiffs,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">and I'm glad we've made a conscious effort not to.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Because with two people so stubborn and so easily taken to pride,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">it'd be <i>very</i> easy to lose patience with the situation and just come unglued.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">But at the end of the day, who wants a knock-down, drag-out, no holds barred fight with the one they love?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">What does it accomplish?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I don't know.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I just can't imagine a fight like that doesn't leave its mark.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">And who wants to deal with stitches when you can just</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">band-aid up the bumps & bruises you'll have along the way?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">Not me.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">stitches freak me out yo!</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">That said,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">here's an article I found on <a href="http://marriage.about.com/cs/conflictandanger/ht/fightfair.htm">how to fight fair</a>.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Made me rethink the whole "we're-so-super-awesome-at-fighting" approach I just took.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">There's plenty of room for improvement.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">happy reading!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">we <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">v</span></b>alue relationships</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">We <i>love</i>, <i><b>love</b></i>, <u><i><b>love</b></i></u> our family & friends</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">and feel so blessed to have such positive influences in our lives.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">And even though life keeps us so crazy busy,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">we always want to make sure they're a part of it.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Because as backwards as it may seem,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">developing relationships with the people around you really does positively impact and strengthen your own.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">This is evidenced so well in our approach to the social scene.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">We're <i>very</i> different in our motivations/needs.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I <i>crave</i> the social interaction.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I love the perspective and insight each unique personality brings to the conversation and really love mixing & matching friends with family, family with friends, friends with friends.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I'm funny that way.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I like to coordinate people & events and love seeing people happy <i>because</i> of it.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">It makes me feel like I've done something worthwhile and it's a bit of a challenge too.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I just love it.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I don't know why but I do.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">anyway...</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Parker, </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">on the other hand, </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">likes familiarity.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">He appreciates the camaraderie<i> </i>he feels with those people he's closest to and likes spending time with friends & family who know him well.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">It lets him enjoy his free time without feeling pressured to orchestrate the event, make the right first impression, mediate between different circles, maintain an image, etc. etc.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">In essence,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">he can just be himself and be responsible for himself.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Other people's happiness & success aren't dependent upon him being on his social "A" game all day.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">It's easy, relaxing, and it makes for a good time,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">and that's the whole point of socializing right?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">What's interesting about our relationship then,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">is how well we work together.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Being able to spend time on both sides of the social fence has brought a really healthy balance to each of our lives.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I've learned I can relax quite a bit more when I'm not in charge and that I don't always have to be the one taking the initiative to make things happen.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">And Parker's realized that the payout you get from making efforts to bring people together is actually pretty sweet.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">The ways he's mellowed me and the ways I've amped him up have helped us find a really sweet social dynamic.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Makes me laugh to think how much I fought the whole "opposites attract" theory all those years.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I never would've guessed we'd make such a great match.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Glad to see we complement each other so well.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">he <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">w</span></b>akes me up</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I am not good with alarm clocks.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">mmmm...that's not quite right.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Let me rephrase.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">My <b>subconscious</b> is not good with alarm clocks.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">If I absolutely, positively <b style="font-style: italic;">have </b>to<b> </b>be up at a certain time,</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I'm up!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">And life's great!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">But if there's any room for negotiating,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">any reason my mind can find to justify even 5 more minutes,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">snooze it is!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">But this is a problem.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>Why?</i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Oh many reasons.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">1. I have a knack for hitting "sleep" instead of "snooze."</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">2. My mind is <i>incredible</i> in its ability to create a very convincing picture of reality. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I see vivid pictures of my whole morning regime, only to wake up panic-stricken once I realize it was all a dream and</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">--oh!!!--</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I now have 5 minutes to get my tush dressed and out the door.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">3. My subconscious isn't always judicious in its justifying. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">On those mornings it convinces me my hair has one more good day, </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">the super-sexy cowlick in the back decides it's immune to all straighteners, curlings irons, hair products, etc. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">On those mornings it sells me on wearing slacks instead of shaving,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> I'm fresh out of clean spandex and have to pack shorts for the gym. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">On those mornings it sways me to disregard the weather reports and spend the extra 15 minutes I'd planned to dedicate to my commute sleeping, </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I end up in bumper-to-bumper traffic because of accidents caused by the rain. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">And on those mornings it decides I'm due an extra 10 minutes just because, </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I spend 15 minutes hunting for my keys.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">It is so much fun!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Nope, no actually it isn't.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">And because humans seem to have much better success at freeing my from my morning coma</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">than machines could ever hope to,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I decided to involve my dear husband.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I probably should've just invested in another alarm clock.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">We spent the first while bickering about why he should be involved.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"You're perpetuating the problem."</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"Baby, all you have to do is say my name."</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"I don't see how that's more effective than an alarm."</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"People don't have snooze buttons Parker."</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"I'm not saying your name 20 times."</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"You only have to say it once. I promise. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I pop right up when I hear my name."</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"Mmhmm...."</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"I really do."</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Then we graduated to debating technique.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"I'm up! </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Babe I'm up!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">You don't have to rip the covers off me too."</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"It's faster. Look how quick you hopped out of bed!"</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">And <i>finally,</i> we compromised.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"Why not do it when you come to kiss me goodbye before school?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Just come in before you pack your backpack."</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"How do I do it?"<br />"The same way you always do.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Just kiss me and let me know you're leaving.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">No shaking, no blanket confiscating, no body-slamming.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">It'll be great!"</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"Can I squash you?"</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"If it's a nice squash."</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"And I have to kiss you?"</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"You always kiss me..."</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"I know. Just checking!"</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"so it's a deal?"</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"It's a deal."</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">It's been <i>perfect.</i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">so perfect!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">hooray for compromise!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">and human alarm clocks too.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">whatever would I do without you baby?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">be a chronically late, furry little grease monkey?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">oh.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">yep. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">mmhmm.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">that's what I'd do.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">we e<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large; font-weight: bold;">x</span>press appreciation</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>"Hem your blessings with thankfulness so they don't unravel."</i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">--anonymous</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I stumbled across this sweet quote and had to use it.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">My marriage is one of the sweetest blessings in my life.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Am I hemming it with thankfulness so it doesn't unravel?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I hope so.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I hope Parker thinks so too.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Because the longer we're together,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">the more likely we'll be to forget how much we appreciated the little things</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">and take for granted that x, y, and z may not have always been the case.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I didn't always have a sweet husband who'd hold me when I couldn't fall to sleep.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I didn't always have a roommate willing to take out the trash anytime it got too full.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I didn't always have a date who'd drive halfway across town to buy me a bapple.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">There's a lot of things I didn't have before I had my Parker.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">And I know there's a lot of things Parker didn't have before he married me.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">And I guess I'm just glad we make it a point to acknowledge and express our appreciation for all the little things now.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Because it's true.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">The longer we're together, </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">the easier it'll be to take for granted all the little blessings marriage brings to our lives.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I hope we always make it a point to remember them.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I love this quote from Elder Nelson:</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><i>"To </i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>appreciate</b></span><i>—to say “I love you” and “thank you”—is not difficult. But these expressions of love and appreciation do more than acknowledge a kind thought or deed. They are signs of sweet civility. As grateful partners look for the good in each other and sincerely pay compliments to one another, wives and husbands will strive to become the persons described in those compliments."</i></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><i><br /></i></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">so inspired.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">and so true.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">thank you Elder Nelson!</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">we remember we're <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><b>y</b></span>oung</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Do you remember being little and thinking,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>being a teenager's where it's at!</i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>football on Fridays, glitzy prom gowns, high school, summer breaks, driving, dating.</i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>i just want it </i><b><i><u>be</u></i> </b><i>here already!</i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i><br /></i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Do you remember when it came and you,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">the crazy-driving, super-dating, too-popular teen,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">envy of all little children,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">wished you could <i>will</i> time to move you on to the oh-so-glamorous college life?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Do you remember when you made it there and you,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">the all-nighter pulling, roadtrip-taking, party-planning & crashing college coed,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">envy of all high school teens,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">couldn't wait for the time when you'd be the one finding & falling in love?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I think we've all been there.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">**If you were somehow so caught up in each moment/satisfied with life that you escaped the grass-is-greener mentality in every stage of it--kudos to you! Feel free to skip along to the next section.**</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">It's really easy to go there.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">But here's my advice.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Don't.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">If I've learned anything in all the growing up I've done this last year it's that this grass-is-greener mentality is <i style="font-weight: bold;">SO</i> overrated.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">seriously!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">If we are always getting ready to live but never living, we are taking for granted this beautiful thing called <b>LIFE</b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>.</i> </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">To make the most of a moment, you have to live it.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Not endure it.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Not think it might be better if the circumstances were x, y, or z.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Just live it!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">And appreciate the fact you've been given a moment to live.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Now, as I clamber down from my philosophical soapbox, let me explain how this relates to the title.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I've found that,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">even in marriage,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">it's easy to be in a hurry to be on to the next phase.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">some couples are eager to start families.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">some can't wait to be through with school.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">some pine away for big promotions.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">some long to know where they'll go for grad school.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">some are anxious to buy and be in a home.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">and some want all of the above.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">and that's absolutely okay.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">if you're ready to move along and the opportunity presents itself,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">take it!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">please.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">but I do hope you enjoyed this phase of life while you were in it.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I am loving being a newlywed with Parker.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">It is such a sweet, simple time in our lives.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">And as often as I think of how nice it'd be to have one or all of the above,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I remember how often I've wished I could hit rewind, revisit little me, and remind her to enjoy the moment.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"You'll be grown up in no time!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>This</i> is your time to be a little girl</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">and do all the things little girls do </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">that teenagers and college kids and married people can't.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Make the time count little Chels.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">You have the rest of your life to be like me."</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">This is our time to be newlyweds</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">and do all those wonderful newlywed things!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">And I'm going to make the most of every minute</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">because, <i>newsflash!!!</i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">We have the rest of our lives to live out those tomorrows.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Now's the time to live out our today.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">we need our <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">z</span></b>'s</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">As I'm writing this, my sweet Parker is trying to force feed me two NyQuil tablets so sickly me will be ready to sleep with the rest of the world.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">He's so good to take care of me.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Really, he is.</span></span></div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I'm not always an easy patient.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">i.e. naughty me just tucked the pills in my pocket.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I <i>should</i> go to sleep, I know.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">but I'm not ready.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">not just yet.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">my OCD's overshadowing my strep symptoms at the moment.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">i'm just soooooo close!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">so close.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Anyway,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I just thought it made for a good segue to this section.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Because as much as I'd like to think he's trying to whisk me off to bed for my own sake,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">trying to save me from my own worst enemy</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">-myself-</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">and help me sleep my way to a speedy recovery;</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I know there's a teeny weeny little part of him that sees the drug pushing for what it is:</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">an act of self-preservation.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">We do not function well without sleep.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">As my brother-in-law might say:</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">we become a couple of ornery little cusses!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">We really do.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Lack of sleep breeds discontent, irritability, and irrationality in this household.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">We quickly recognized it as a catalyst in all our major contests.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">And, as such, we've tried to avoid it at all costs.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Does it always happen?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Hmmm...</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I'm a night owl by nature.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Parker's an early riser</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">whose "not-so-early-to-bed" tendencies</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">(he shares said bed with a night owl)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">make for VERY early mornings.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">And we're both B-U-S-Y!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">so no,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">making time for sleep isn't always easy.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">But we do try.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Because really,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">isn't life so much happier when the little fatigue monsters are kept in hibernation?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I think so.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">maybe i should go take my pills...</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">oh!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">what's that?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">how did we celebrate?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">...and anonymously delivered to my work.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">with the characteristically thoughtful & sweet cake recreation </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">my Mom coordinated all the way from Sparks...</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">...same decorator, same flavors, same colors, same design...</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">all because the original accidentally made its way to the wrong home when we left for our wedding night.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">thanks a million Mom for keeping a first anniversary tradition alive!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">with an exquisite anniversary dinner at the lovely La Caille...</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">...with my exceptionally handsome husband...</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">...a savory salmon entree...</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">...and the most adorable mini-desserts I'd been dying to try since the wedding.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">with our favorite Bridge Hampton from Gandolfo's...</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">...and a fabulous Park City shopping spree...</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">notice how much he's loving it</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">before he realizes I'm garnering evidence for the husband V. high heels case.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">nice try "tuff" mcgruff.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">we all see right through you...</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">:)</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">...and a romantic Park City retreat to cap off the weekend </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">thanks to our favorite cousin's whose infinitely generous and sweet...</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">...with failed attempts to find a Park City meeting...</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">...and a speedracer ride home to catch Sacrament somewhere in the stake...</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">...we had <i>the</i> most wonderful first anniversary to celebrate 365 days of wedded bliss!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">so happy you're mine Park.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I feel so lucky I can say that forever.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">:)</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">thank you for all the sweet memories.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">i love you Parker B!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">p.s. I will not be attempting anything like this post</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">ever.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">again.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">i'm exhausted.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">but here's to all we have to look forward to in year 2!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">so many exciting things happening!!!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">til next time...</span><br />
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Parker & Chelsey DeMillehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04753140257112122115noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2969888342910468392.post-47992348533203413832011-08-30T00:23:00.000-07:002011-08-30T10:06:23.567-07:00i's da most edjumacated gradjiate<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">well, I think that pretty much sums it up!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">onto the pictures...</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8Pl2O_NDLH_5dRzPNkDC6233IRsm6j2645BeSZVs6fY0uvJ2GpXiT_jqVisDWD7Y6wESLSCTWe7XBUad3wYurCsrsym69z9y7QUJeG22wFBDwUVchiKH8KUG9aT5cZPhfLE6Ux2t_TS46/s1600/IMG_2894.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8Pl2O_NDLH_5dRzPNkDC6233IRsm6j2645BeSZVs6fY0uvJ2GpXiT_jqVisDWD7Y6wESLSCTWe7XBUad3wYurCsrsym69z9y7QUJeG22wFBDwUVchiKH8KUG9aT5cZPhfLE6Ux2t_TS46/s400/IMG_2894.JPG" width="400" /></a></div></div><div style="text-align: center;">......................</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">i's just kidding.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">did you really think I'm capable of being so concise in my explaining of life's events?</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> especially with this one's reputation for being a legitimate "milestone" and all.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">of course you didn't.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">but if you want to know the truth,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I did think of glossing over the details of the whole graduation bit.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">In the same way I felt apprehensive about April's graduation ceremonies because of my mind's insistence that any such celebration would be hugely anticlimactic for a December grad, spilling the details in an August post a full four months later seemed like an equally pointless expenditure of time.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">But here's the deal.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Despite all my reservations about attending those April ceremonies</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">(and all my pleas and persuasions that my family forego the trip to Happy Valley, save their frequent flyer miles for some exotic vacation, and forget the whole thing)</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I am, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">admittedly, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">incredibly grateful I decided to go</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBPiL3wd_RFfMH_jYJ7KPjYirPnRolNcDdiBWAppRq1TsT5kwjrBsa6IMmvQtdBR2AB20dCPWLyrR6ErsAdTedmoX7t2IHOAsSEeMZUZ-lxSHFTR0Ea0tCprFx5U_jW28qHKoRmMDgI21w/s1600/IMG_2888.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBPiL3wd_RFfMH_jYJ7KPjYirPnRolNcDdiBWAppRq1TsT5kwjrBsa6IMmvQtdBR2AB20dCPWLyrR6ErsAdTedmoX7t2IHOAsSEeMZUZ-lxSHFTR0Ea0tCprFx5U_jW28qHKoRmMDgI21w/s400/IMG_2888.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">(i.e. had no choice in the matter when my many, many, many appeals fell on deaf ears or were met with <strike>guilt trips</strike> reassurances that "It would mean so much to your dad," or "I'd just be so sad if you looked back with regret six months, years, or decades later and wondered why we let you miss it," or, my favorite, "Regardless of how silly the belated ceremonies, celebrations, and congratulations may seem, you'll always be grateful for the experience because of what those photos will mean to your kids.").</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuN0xmqR8okhfLswNpQzAwJbE7gR37YQLwC8wuPgntywPfUPrlpOgvC6vE1isBOit4cruULVSP3cM0i-MiHWXMhf5_C3v2sDu281K-fEICBefif5GAajCr8ptgFzPS0GmytKpw6QrADvIW/s1600/IMG_2869.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuN0xmqR8okhfLswNpQzAwJbE7gR37YQLwC8wuPgntywPfUPrlpOgvC6vE1isBOit4cruULVSP3cM0i-MiHWXMhf5_C3v2sDu281K-fEICBefif5GAajCr8ptgFzPS0GmytKpw6QrADvIW/s400/IMG_2869.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">While my elementary school essays might lead readers to believe Miss Chelsey Brianne White was always BYU-bound, I've realized in recent months that this was not the case.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Before my brother's BYU graduation, these claims were simply platitudes</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(I'm still trying to see the logic/value in asking a second grader to expound on what she wants to be when she grows up or where she wants to go to college. I'm not sure I could even honestly commit to a favorite color at that age).</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">and weak attempts to put words on paper.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">They needed me to pick a place, so I picked one </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">and set it as my default answer for the next few years.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">It sounded right,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">it set me apart,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(remember I grew up in California & Nevada).</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">and it made sense.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">And, at that time, that was all that mattered.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWF1FwUI8w-QChn8H9bkOZNjfc48YK9h0zJbetQso9-k09PUZOFXLaDjhIxx3bli3K7FRZE0SlyqUb4rypTJj7WKbp-dc6uY0pOfsXdLiYw6qGNWDBK7Hb2CntDGcO5Jb_v3BmbpWVSVIy/s1600/IMG_2915.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWF1FwUI8w-QChn8H9bkOZNjfc48YK9h0zJbetQso9-k09PUZOFXLaDjhIxx3bli3K7FRZE0SlyqUb4rypTJj7WKbp-dc6uY0pOfsXdLiYw6qGNWDBK7Hb2CntDGcO5Jb_v3BmbpWVSVIy/s400/IMG_2915.JPG" width="400" /></a></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Fast-forward to Jason's graduation...</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">my first real visit to a big college campus</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">+</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">a fascination with this incredibly glamorous college life</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">+</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">thousands of caps and gowns with tassels</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">+</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">the echoes of applause across a packed Marriott Center</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">+</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">a crisp BYU diploma in the hands of the older brother I <i>adored</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">=</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">a determination that, one day soon, <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I'd be a BYU alum too</span>.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">a true blue Cougar with a diploma to prove it!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguXILvBZ5XNYo9zjp_MQltjG1L61g74DFLCKMxmRErnFYBDfcq5Ui5iPEDTzp-UxLGZfRVfDUrDd4iJiQrTAm1EuZD8BJFFG5AAFPa-XVq67-pROGz6TmKGKU4a76tY0YLX5ayW2TgKmit/s1600/IMG_2921.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguXILvBZ5XNYo9zjp_MQltjG1L61g74DFLCKMxmRErnFYBDfcq5Ui5iPEDTzp-UxLGZfRVfDUrDd4iJiQrTAm1EuZD8BJFFG5AAFPa-XVq67-pROGz6TmKGKU4a76tY0YLX5ayW2TgKmit/s400/IMG_2921.jpg" width="266" /></a></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">That day came more quickly than I'd expected.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I absolutely would've believed you </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">-had you told me all those years ago-</span> </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">if you said I'd be crossing that stage to claim a BA in Communications.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I similarly would've agreed</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> -<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">after a moment's pause-</span> </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">that future-me's degree designated a broadcast journalism emphasis.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">That same reaction</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">-with the slightest hint of a smirk-</span> </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">might have come when you told me I'd finished it all in just 3.5 years</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">(as I justify future-me's semi-slacking with grand visions of an oh-so glamorous social life and an ambitious resume teeming with extracurricular activities...</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">can you tell past-me was a bit obnoxious in her over-achieving tendencies?</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">i like to think i've outgrown her</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">)</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I would've tried to fight you when you tried to tell me I was married,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">-and invented every possible scenario to explain away the ring on my finger-</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">"my sweet fiance proposed on graduation day and we welcomed the start to our two-year engagement...I needed to free up my Friday nights and I'd exhausted my list of convincing excuses/creative ways to say no...I wanted to study for finals in peace!"</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">before finally conceding that it<i> </i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large; font-style: italic;">maybe</span> <i>possibly </i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small; font-style: italic;">perhaps</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small; font-style: italic;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small; font-style: italic;">perchance </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large; font-style: italic;">might </span><span class="Apple-style-span">be true.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">But I never, <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">ever, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">ever </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">would have believed you if you'd said I wanted to skip my own graduation.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">-I'm sorry, but you must be mistaken. Even future-me would know better than to do such a thing. I've looked forward to this day my whole life.-</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">But the truth of it is, I didn't want to go</span>.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">And the reality of it is,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">many of my concerns did prove valid.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">For those first 30-minutes in the HFAC basement, I felt absolutely out-of-place.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">My decision to graduate in December meant I'd missed out on a kick-back semester of anchor labs, floral design, event planning, tennis, golf and all the latest happenings in the newsroom.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Tack on our move removing ourselves from the Provo newlywed community's social scene by moving to Salt Lake and you'll see.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I was, by all accounts, a <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">stranger</span> to this once familiar college town.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Amazing what four short months can do...</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXFo-wW8sWVrnCcJ0NfxSUiNhIyuNoEK_0sn_gs9AiY2pOY9dih_hJiB6gDt3A18LVD5AEBsRqEVLJnFZBgHE-eF6b8uqBG6SCeZ92e_twRVjkYDRYefH-fj5XIeCMzKH8PiKFGqUAVOEj/s1600/photo+%25283%2529.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXFo-wW8sWVrnCcJ0NfxSUiNhIyuNoEK_0sn_gs9AiY2pOY9dih_hJiB6gDt3A18LVD5AEBsRqEVLJnFZBgHE-eF6b8uqBG6SCeZ92e_twRVjkYDRYefH-fj5XIeCMzKH8PiKFGqUAVOEj/s400/photo+%25283%2529.JPG" width="400" /></a></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Just as I prepared to resign myself to committing to the conclusion that I'd made a colossal mistake in coming, I bumped into a friend.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">a real friend.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">and a friend who paved the way for the many sweet, tender mercies that made a graduation day I felt ready to write off.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I've always admired her.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">She's beautiful, smart, talented, and driven.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">But above all, she's </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">real</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">, </span></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">authentic</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">optimistic</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">and</span> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>genuine</i></span>.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">And that, today, was exactly the kind of friend I needed.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">She took a genuine interest in my life, post-grad plans, and ideas for the future, excitedly sharing the details of her own.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">She sympathized with my feelings of uncertainty over what the future held and validated my trepidation in moving forward, for the first time in my life, without a clear picture of what I wanted to accomplish or do.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">And she maintained my same optimism that, </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">whatever it was,</span> </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">we'd find it soon</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">and find success there too.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">We reminisced about our program, professors, projects, and friends;</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">we speculated about what the future held;</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">and we walked across that stage knowing, </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">in spite of our seemingly taboo TBD post-grad plans,</span> </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">we'd already found success.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7hCYM52wvngeQE972i0EJlvhmZOoQD7hXuDEeWWh4NRsPTNQTS2DLi-a9zyTw9OcVAMuXm52UMbnExKP2gFFjTTab4zjnBH0yqgOyjsHAhMoBxxSyFjgcIXDbRN1inbLeYPAOaPhQ43Lh/s1600/IMG_2287.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7hCYM52wvngeQE972i0EJlvhmZOoQD7hXuDEeWWh4NRsPTNQTS2DLi-a9zyTw9OcVAMuXm52UMbnExKP2gFFjTTab4zjnBH0yqgOyjsHAhMoBxxSyFjgcIXDbRN1inbLeYPAOaPhQ43Lh/s320/IMG_2287.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzDFXIEFaELamDDFGdORGk234qukYlYG2FOxJLp4GuqwPSMg3i-fgDB42v0lg5C3bWIGCGr8pRvbbN_j1Qw1N_9kN0eJlBBg9Rz7xf7Zu5AJLOtIM83_5vBvg81HGRp37x8ulr4CspYuJD/s1600/IMG_2290.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzDFXIEFaELamDDFGdORGk234qukYlYG2FOxJLp4GuqwPSMg3i-fgDB42v0lg5C3bWIGCGr8pRvbbN_j1Qw1N_9kN0eJlBBg9Rz7xf7Zu5AJLOtIM83_5vBvg81HGRp37x8ulr4CspYuJD/s400/IMG_2290.JPG" width="400" /></a></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Thanks to a sweet friend, I <i>finally</i> saw my graduation as an accomplishment worth celebrating.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">When I finally decide to grow up, I hope I'll be just like her.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Case in point:</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Chelsey's blonde moment of the day.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"Why is my name on this list?"</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I whisper as an especially expressive family wolf-whistles in response to the announcer calling their graduate across the stage. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"What list?"</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I point to pages spattered with Latin and look up at her an expression of confusion and concern.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">She smiles and suppresses a laugh.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"Chelsey! You're our summa cum laude! That means you're like the tip-tip-top of the class. Like a valedictorian. Oh my gosh...that's so exciting! Congrats!"</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">She turns to share the news with our broadcast buddy neighbors.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I flush a few shades of red.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"I think I need to give it back."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">She gives me a curious look.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"Why's that?"</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"Because a real summa cum laude...am I even pronouncing it right?"</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">She kindly corrects me.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"Right. A real summa cum laude would be smart enough to get it, smart enough to say it, AND smart enough to know what it means. I'm 1 for 3. This is not the kind of representation our college needs."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"Don't worry Chels," she laughs again, "I promise I won't tell."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I stare down at the program and wallow in my shame once more before it hits me. Oh my gosh. Oh no.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">My panic makes my whisper a bit more audible than I intended,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"Please tell me this doesn't mean I have to speak! I would <i>die</i>...right there on the podium. My family would be devastated. And my dad...oh my poor dad."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">More kind laughter.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"I think you're okay Chels..."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"You're sure?"</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"I'm certain."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"Okay...but if it happens I'm sending you in my place. So long as it's a blonde in broadcast no one will know the difference."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"Probably true..."</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><i>finally</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> took a bit of pride in my efforts.</span> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><i>finally</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> appreciated the fact that, regardless of my future field, my time in broadcast did help me acquire the skills and confidence I'd need to succeed.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">finally</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> acknowledged how missing out on enrolling in Comms 101 that first fall turned out to be one of the greatest blessings in my life</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">-i can't imagine where I'd be had I moved forward with my plans for PR or entered the program a semester ahead of the broadcast family of friends I've come to know and love so well-</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">finally</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> recognized the lasting impact of those incredible friendships I made along the way and how impossible it would be to adequately express my appreciation for all the efforts our professors made on our behalf.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>finally</b></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> opened my heart to admitting how much I would miss this place.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">-why are we always in such a hurry to see what comes next?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">if you haven't realized it already, </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">let me speak from experience,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">the grass-is-greener mentality is <b><i>so</i></b> overrated.-</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">my days at BYU will always frame the backdrop of some of my sweetest memories.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">From </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">f</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">reshman</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> adventures with fast friends,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">to </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>sophomore</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> year craziness with my very best besties,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">to a </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;">junior</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> year spent finding and falling in love,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">to the </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><b>senior</b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> year given to finding myself,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I will never experience anything quite like it.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">As I wandered the HFAC lobby, maneuvering my way through the crowds of happy families reuniting with their graduates, I suddenly felt sad.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I hadn't even left and I already missed it.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">What am I doing?</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">What is there to celebrate?</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>I know I'm never coming back, </i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>but I don't know where I'm going.</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The future seemed more uncertain than ever.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">And again, I questioned my approach.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">If I'd really made the most of my time here, wouldn't I know the answer?</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNEDJ5tVAFPNvvsE2m6PAq8q7b0ZOvqzBeRMmhHGub9rtONbSE-DCSpLux_SfwMwBHHbRwSaCwxVVt7-tk_kh4CCF7b6XTsHsFo4ZvDofP_xkJ579VS22rz-UtphBHa0Jkx3pgvbQuKD21/s1600/DSC0034-2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNEDJ5tVAFPNvvsE2m6PAq8q7b0ZOvqzBeRMmhHGub9rtONbSE-DCSpLux_SfwMwBHHbRwSaCwxVVt7-tk_kh4CCF7b6XTsHsFo4ZvDofP_xkJ579VS22rz-UtphBHa0Jkx3pgvbQuKD21/s400/DSC0034-2.jpg" width="400" /></a></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">A voice from the balcony helped me surface from my thoughts.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i>"Chelly! Chels we're up here!"</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I turned my eyes upward to see my dad, wildly waving a bouquet of roses through the air and grinning from ear to ear.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">-Every awards night, performance, championship, graduation, and birthday my daddy buys me flowers. It's his way of showing how much he loves me and a sweet reminder that, to him, even the smallest of my successes is a cause for celebration.-</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">And it hit me.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Mom was right.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Today meant so much to him;</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">he was <i>so </i>proud of me.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">They all were.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">cue tender mercy #3</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">As I hugged my way up the stairs I felt so incredibly loved.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4SbtAK5Wm1vBREXVBE2Pr-YlK67Kmeah-ln47hT5KV3YdHiipxjQVjLqlcp9Dhyphenhyphen1UQ70saUnWOIETVbTyf53DjzcOIEuYKB233b6S5CR9KePimrgfdfA1uBkt3MdyzW-V8aKQd5fPM05w/s1600/IMG_2887.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="265" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4SbtAK5Wm1vBREXVBE2Pr-YlK67Kmeah-ln47hT5KV3YdHiipxjQVjLqlcp9Dhyphenhyphen1UQ70saUnWOIETVbTyf53DjzcOIEuYKB233b6S5CR9KePimrgfdfA1uBkt3MdyzW-V8aKQd5fPM05w/s400/IMG_2887.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9nx8qL61lXZHvVmxIKVt5jPdJpC9wFg6i2Ytal5QEB8qbUPP36Fax284geudgqzqCJqReR-yoKJE7NI3SJs1nSb9EiswXfJkqpKkIaFdEfMyCYopmBTmFF9cT4s1ufB3vyzTaLTW9zXPh/s1600/IMG_2921.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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font-size: x-small;">Dad worked himself ragged to give us every opportunity, experience, and chance for success. That selflessness and the joy he finds in helping others on to happiness are, without a doubt, the reasons he's dedicated his whole life to seeing us succeed. He had my synapses firing from the time I was four. From rummy and cribbage to Risk and chess, Dad <i>loved</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> helping us develop critical thinking skills through games. To Mom's chagrin, "stump the dummy," Dad's aptly titled mental math game, will be a tradition I carry on to my future family's road trips too. Those little strings of equations and the smiles that crossed his face when I'd solved them will always be some of my fondest memories of my Dad. There's never been a question in my mind about how much he loves me. He'll always be proud of his little girl.</span><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUvdAJSf3vkAzbMSCmPZD-J0W6FM7XyalLcEq62JXL4uELhdYlMHhghN93Rnss3ojDpt4xfi16G6s_aBhLmlUhHiG5Gc_-0pjrJE9ca9r_A2HTMluOA99Ur6Dvaj-jt8kVaIKS1hPwzYi7/s1600/IMG_2911.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUvdAJSf3vkAzbMSCmPZD-J0W6FM7XyalLcEq62JXL4uELhdYlMHhghN93Rnss3ojDpt4xfi16G6s_aBhLmlUhHiG5Gc_-0pjrJE9ca9r_A2HTMluOA99Ur6Dvaj-jt8kVaIKS1hPwzYi7/s400/IMG_2911.JPG" width="400" /></a></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Here was the brother who pushed me to push myself and make the move from good to great.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I looked up to him my whole life. I admired his wit, intellect, and confidence. I talked him up to every friend and family friend we knew--and still do. I craved his praises and longed for his approval. And though it took me years to realize it, I had it all along. We fought like crazy and, at times, I drove him up the wall. But I always knew he loved me and wanted to see me succeed. He set the bar high and expected me to clear it. And the criticisms only came on those occasions when both he and I knew I wasn't being honest with myself or living up to my full potential. His big-brother mentality's made him my greatest advocate and I'm so grateful for the ways he's helped me realize what I can achieve and what I deserve. I'll never know why his opinion means so much to me, but I absolutely appreciate how willing he is to give it. His honesty drives me to succeed.</span><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyArhQPtz82odM8yCQe6NKodBxPxujGZnUweVWL6Bri_HkGqBPD7ObJGSsv8FH0oyunrpK69SP8LfmpY7fqOEl0JfE-9SRccekPbFj1FtOccYRyqiAtsgozP8Fqnd0YdfyBkEYPZjBMBvt/s1600/IMG_2896.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyArhQPtz82odM8yCQe6NKodBxPxujGZnUweVWL6Bri_HkGqBPD7ObJGSsv8FH0oyunrpK69SP8LfmpY7fqOEl0JfE-9SRccekPbFj1FtOccYRyqiAtsgozP8Fqnd0YdfyBkEYPZjBMBvt/s400/IMG_2896.JPG" width="400" /></a></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Here were the newest additions to our family who lovingly reassured me on so many occasions that graduating was, indeed, an accomplishment </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">and just the first of many successes to come.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I know you're all just about sick of hearing that phrase, but--for some reason--crazy me had to hear it that many time to <i>finally</i> accept it as truth. Your patience in offering up those little reminders meant more to me than you know. I love you all so much and I love that you're my family!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">i.e. Ashlee hugs me and exclaims,</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;"><i>"My little sister is so smart!!!</i></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><i>I just love you!"</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">:)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I just love you too Ash.</span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAeZ89jD4ed6fceLk1W6LRwjczcNPV3ecRWcALoNRrj-TWoz97N1iF8wkuvPUHmetjZAaey1Cg4i3fUhYs9hncbQYPQ3nKCND7iuZiGjTtigvsOL0PmcbykchmmRGBxrV4EhQ94-p8k2Qc/s1600/IMG_2902.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAeZ89jD4ed6fceLk1W6LRwjczcNPV3ecRWcALoNRrj-TWoz97N1iF8wkuvPUHmetjZAaey1Cg4i3fUhYs9hncbQYPQ3nKCND7iuZiGjTtigvsOL0PmcbykchmmRGBxrV4EhQ94-p8k2Qc/s400/IMG_2902.JPG" width="400" /></a></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Here was the bestie who helped me remember everything I'd done to get here and how much fun we had along the way.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">If you weren't on a mission, I'd ramble on and on about our adventures, but I think it will suffice to say we've had more fun than most people will find in a lifetime. I have to be one of the luckiest Cougars to have her "girls" there with her from Beehives to BA's. I love you lots Miss Tiff!</span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhul3ysvjil94BRJ7nYXcOzd03Z7_yf9-aaOfoVCxGaq3R7i2TtNjWuJbjwkXmF1sLezJp44_bv6xabfIe4TbSSfhlSr2apUGyG2ISXYP86LoD7g0eSE8hoinZZrxGy_lnQe27mqNxIAzXi/s1600/IMG_2929.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhul3ysvjil94BRJ7nYXcOzd03Z7_yf9-aaOfoVCxGaq3R7i2TtNjWuJbjwkXmF1sLezJp44_bv6xabfIe4TbSSfhlSr2apUGyG2ISXYP86LoD7g0eSE8hoinZZrxGy_lnQe27mqNxIAzXi/s400/IMG_2929.JPG" width="400" /></a></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">And here was the husband who loved me through it all.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Who always made it a point to tell me how proud he was to call me his.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Who went to bed alone those nights I let perfectionism take the front seat.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Who chatted with me late into the night as I commuted home from school.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Who held me til I fell asleep on those school nights when my restless mind had me feeling like I never would.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Who wiped away my tears each night I wondered where to go from here.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Who absolutely believed I could do anything I set my mind to and couldn't wait to see me try.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">He's been my greatest motivator,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">my strongest support,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">and my best friend.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I'm so lucky to have him.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">suddenly,</span> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">it hit me.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Closing this chapter in my life scared me because it marked the end of what once seemed like a certain future.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="font-family: Times; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I knew where I wanted to go, what I wanted to achieve, and what I needed to do to get there.</span></div><div style="font-family: Times; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">But the truth of it is, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">while my plans for my</span> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">professional</span> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">pursuits might need a few revisions, </span></span></div><div style="font-family: Times; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">my <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">future</span> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">has never been more certain </span></div><div style="font-family: Times; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">or more reassuring in its promise.</span> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9m_Dh7hYCKRHFabulQqx7QDYJ4YqvkRIjzOXJXNkJYoC8CH77PatVI0UfnBvV1M-DOX00TBp47vbNEzdaZ96uUSFS8zBaVlj3X696UGH2Cge3hJBj4-NAEasaPgdvV_Ecse3DUk_3G-Po/s1600/IMG_2879.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9m_Dh7hYCKRHFabulQqx7QDYJ4YqvkRIjzOXJXNkJYoC8CH77PatVI0UfnBvV1M-DOX00TBp47vbNEzdaZ96uUSFS8zBaVlj3X696UGH2Cge3hJBj4-NAEasaPgdvV_Ecse3DUk_3G-Po/s400/IMG_2879.JPG" width="400" /></a></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I'm living for the people I love now.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I'm taking that leap of faith in trusting that, whatever our future has in store, we'll be happy because it's <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large; font-style: italic;">ours</span>!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">It's ours to live together.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">And I can't think of a happier promise for the future than knowing I'll be sharing it with Parker.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Love's worth every single revision I'll ever make to that draft of my life plan.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Check in in about 50 years and I'll read you the final...</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">:)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Thanks to everyone who came out to celebrate or sent warm wishes my way that day! </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">It's likely Biaggi's & bapples with family and friends meant more to me than the ceremonial hubbub.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">But we all know that, when it comes to bapples, there's not much that can compete for my affections.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">It wasn't ever a fair contest.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXEONY73Yz2DJKcK88_h4RmHkyRiu93fmuI_Mw-q0ZmTN4EYy6Nt8mWVpogdaBVTOdIuYIcgZmc7lblLCPSg_K7jpoac1IZbXGX_FJVhEL2XizJoMgC5PAydVo2f8pp8_hetz1pwRuFDEn/s1600/IMG_2939.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXEONY73Yz2DJKcK88_h4RmHkyRiu93fmuI_Mw-q0ZmTN4EYy6Nt8mWVpogdaBVTOdIuYIcgZmc7lblLCPSg_K7jpoac1IZbXGX_FJVhEL2XizJoMgC5PAydVo2f8pp8_hetz1pwRuFDEn/s400/IMG_2939.jpg" width="266" /></a></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Thanks for a good run BYU.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I'll always have my memories.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">p.s. guess which graduate has an iPad 2??? </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I'm feeling a little guilty I mocked them for so long.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">And, if we're being honest, I will admit it took me about three weeks to free it from its box.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">The technology intimidated me,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">but we seem to be getting along just fine. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Here's to a MAC-friendly future in marketing!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">woo woo woo!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">oh and dental school too...</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">details to come.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div>Parker & Chelsey DeMillehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04753140257112122115noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2969888342910468392.post-57748031124675087582011-08-11T04:24:00.000-07:002011-08-20T19:09:31.391-07:00heels v. husband<div style="text-align: center;"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Armed with groundbreaking evidence said to clearly convey the defendant's giddiness over a set of newly acquired back-to-school Banana Republic fitted vees</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">(thus indicating his condoning of legitimate wardrobe-enhancing purchases and exposing a case for high-heel-directed hypocrisy)</span>, </span><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPDKs3e0-czdaujaeOoSSU49zkIksiMlSTbRHe8m6I_MNAYSAlYKIQLdP2D9i0iX9LCHMg9PZyTaluxV68BvvUyIRiaeCd6XlomVdGgOH8-ll74GmCXv8OK4ew382r6qYGTXpFq3-AT6wY/s1600/photo.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPDKs3e0-czdaujaeOoSSU49zkIksiMlSTbRHe8m6I_MNAYSAlYKIQLdP2D9i0iX9LCHMg9PZyTaluxV68BvvUyIRiaeCd6XlomVdGgOH8-ll74GmCXv8OK4ew382r6qYGTXpFq3-AT6wY/s320/photo.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">camera phone=successful sneak attack on unsuspecting victim that I will, without a doubt, be in trouble for posting here</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">In light of this development, the court opted to postpone the trial for 24 hours, citing the need to evaluate "whether the photo-in-question offers such compelling, conclusive evidence that it cannot be denied the court's consideration even at this late stage of the trial."</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">There's no question they'll rule in favor of the prosecution, determining said photo as both permissive and pertinent to the case.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Nevertheless, I'd like to take this time to dispel any and all rumors regarding the details of the case of Heels v. Husband on behalf of my client, which is, coincidentally, myself. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The court transcripts from day one of the proceedings are as follows:</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"Mrs. DeMille, to the best of your memory, please recount to the court the events of Monday, July 25, 2011."</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"I'm not sure if I can Your Honor. It...it just all seems so silly."</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"Mrs. DeMille, may I remind you you're under oath?"</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"I realize that, it's just..."</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"High-heel-directed hypocrisy is a serious offense Mrs. DeMille. As is shoe mockery. To trivialize the issue with such words as 'silly' not only undermines your case, but undermines the entire ideology driving the success of the retail industry as well. We are aiming to save an economy. Other women, other wives, other victims...they need you to tell your story." </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"Ok, ok...simmer down sparky. No need to go all Law & Order on me. I'll tell the story.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I came home from the first day of my second week at work in a bit of a frenzy. To top off a day riddled with failed Thanksgiving flight searches and piles of projects to be written in a language still foreign to me and on a device that's developed some sort of cancer of the machine, I hit traffic. Loads of traffic. The same traffic I hit every day on my way home from work because of fender benders caused by a bunch of crazies who can't tell the brake from the gas. I'm nearly convinced everyone driving between 9000 S. and the 215 is incompetent."</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"Objection. These are irrelevant details Your Honor,"</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">the defense interjects. He's thinks he's so smart.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"Sustained. Mrs. DeMille, please focus on the purchases."</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"I'm nearly there. When it's your turn to testify I'll let you determine what is and is not relevant, thank you."</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"I..."</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"I know, I know. K, so I arrive home from a little ditty of a day and think, 'Oh my goodness! In less than a week-and-a-half I'll be leaving town for my best friend's wedding. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Flight, <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">check</span>. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Bridesmaid outfit, <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">check</span>. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> Jewelry, <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">check</span>. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Sanity, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">check</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">...</span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">ish</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Heels...<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">nope</span>. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;">Negatory.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Definitely don't have heels yet.' </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">As I'd learned my lesson in procrastination the last time...</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">apparently shoe shopping left undone til the night prior means a last minute trip to downtown SLC's Wally World to wrestle Wal-Mart People's shim of the year for their last pair of super-classy $2.50 white flip-flops</span>...</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I decided to be proactive and get looking.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I realized the futility of a solo-search just minutes in.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>I am incapable of making a purchase without a second opinion.</i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>I know this.</i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>Everyone who knows me knows this.</i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>What am I doing?</i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">redirect.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">new approach=chelsey + 1</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I needed another person.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">easy!!!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I'll just go grab...I mean call...no, no, no g-chat....message???</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">huh.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">who?</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">good question.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">i hadn't quite thought that through.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">so I asked the logical questions.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">who is </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">accessible</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">with a </span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">definitive</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> opinion?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">that they'll </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;">honestly</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> express?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">who won't subconsciously </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>sabotage</b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> me because they want to ensure they have the cuter wardrobe?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">or sexier-looking legs that day?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">who won't </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>sugarcoat</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> the truth?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">or worry so much about </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><b>hurting</b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> my feelings or </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><b>insulting</b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> my taste that it takes us 10 years to make a definitive decision?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">who won't make me feel </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">cheap</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> for trying to be </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">economical</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">or </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>spoiled</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> for splurging on the pair I <i>really</i> love?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">who will be </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">real</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">quick</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>honest</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">, and <i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">willing</span></i> to help me narrow 500+ options to just one</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">...maybe two</span>?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">'<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Chels? </span><i>Chelsey</i>??? </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Chels!</span> </span><br />
<br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Can I help you with something?'</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The answer became clear just as soon as my vision did.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I'd been staring at him the whole time.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">'You sure can sweetie!'</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">His eyes shift ever-so-slightly toward the computer screen.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">'I was being sarcastic,'</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">he says wryly.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">'Too late! You offered.'</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">We bickered for about the next 10 minutes as to what it means to make good use of one's time versus how couples grow in love when spouses do the I-don't-really-want-to-do-this-but-I-will-because-you-asked-and-because-I-love-you types of things for each other.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">By the end of said conversation I contended with the passive aggressive, 'Imagine all we could have accomplished by now! </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">We'd be finished! </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">It's that easy.'</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">To which husband responded, 'Right?! I'd have finished my chapter and you'd be entering the credit card info for the cutest pair on there! We should try it. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Next ten minutes. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Ready...go!!!'</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Another pair of shoes worth of this tug-of-war of words and I had the love child of a teenager's eye-roll and a tactless hint-dropper's heavy sigh for my co-pilot.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">sure, he didn't fit all my criteria.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">but he fit about 70%.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">and the most important 70% at that.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I can't picture Parker trying to beat me out for sexiest-looking legs</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">or worrying my purchase might strip him of his title for cutest shoe collection.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">bahahaha.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">could you imagine?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">honestly, if either of those happened I think I'd be investing my shoe money in marriage counseling.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">that can't be healthy.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">and so the shoe-shop began.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">And, Your Honor, if I may,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I'd like to turn the court's attention to exhibit A.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I think these bits of dialogue tell the reader's digest version of the story better than I ever could."</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"Proceed."</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"Ladies & gentlemen of the court...<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">exhibit A</span>. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Nothing further, Your Honor."</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"<i>Rock-a-bye baby, in da treetop...</i>"</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">"What are you <i>doing</i>?"</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"I'm just singin' da baby to sleep in its wicker cradle-basket."</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">"It's called a bassinet."</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"<i>...when da wind blows! da cradle-basket will rock."</i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><i>"</i>That's not even how it goes..."</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"<i>...when da tree breaks! da baby will fall.</i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Babe...oh babe.'</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">his worried tone mirrored by the clear concern in his eyes </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">'I don't think the baby's gonna be okay! </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Those wicker-baskets aren't made to withstand that kind of impact!'</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">..............</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">'Who sings this kind of song to children?!"</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"> </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"Cliff-jumping at Lake Powell."</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">"It's not even black-and-white."</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"Have you ever seen a black-and-white bamboo cage Chelsey?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I didn't think so."</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"I wonder how many belts we could fit around your ankle..."</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><img height="180" src="http://s7d2.scene7.com/is/image/DSWShoes/235216_060_ss_01?$search$" width="200" /></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"Do you think it would cost more to fix your broken ankles or convince the cops you weren't working the street-corner you were waiting on when you broke them?"</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"It's the slide from the Treehouse Play-Place at the mall! </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Go little guy, go!"</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">He uses his fingers to run across the screen and zip down the slide with a "wee!!!".</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">(yes, the sounds effects are included. nope, no batteries necessary.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">want him?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">he's all yours.)</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i><img src="http://www.polyvore.com/cgi/img-thing?.out=jpg&size=l&tid=36783541" /></i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"The poor, shaggy dog can't even see!"</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><img src="http://www.polyvore.com/cgi/img-thing?.out=jpg&size=l&tid=32370623" /> </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"Torture chamber. Stick 'em in the tub and you're all set for waterboarding." </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">"Baby!"</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"Okay....</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Too heavy."</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">(cue heavy sigh)</span> </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><img src="http://www.polyvore.com/cgi/img-thing?.out=jpg&size=l&tid=36169452" /></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"Corn-u-copia!"</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><img src="http://s7d2.scene7.com/is/image/DSWShoes/222172_645_ss_01?scl=3.1380753138075312&qlt=70&fmt=jpeg&wid=478&hei=359&op_sharpen=1" /></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> "Think of how much cooler it'd be if we just glued real butterflies to the shoes in your closet. Their wings'd be flappin' all crazy all day."</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">"They'd die Parker."</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"And then they'd be just like these shoes. But <i>free...</i></span>"<br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">"You are a sick child."</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><img src="http://www.polyvore.com/cgi/img-thing?.out=jpg&size=l&tid=36369334" /></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"If only sailboats ran over cheetahs every day. Then we could all be trendy."</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><img src="http://www.polyvore.com/cgi/img-thing?.out=jpg&size=l&tid=34214420" /></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"How fast do you think the little guy can make it up the cargo net?"</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">(The little finger human squares up to the starting line. I quickly scroll on.)</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><img src="http://www.polyvore.com/cgi/img-thing?.out=jpg&size=l&tid=30420884" /></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"There aren't even words for this. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">It's like a chameleon swallowed a blue otter pop and a little stuffed animal all at the same time.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">It' so wrong.</span>"<br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">He shudders.</span> </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><img src="http://www.polyvore.com/cgi/img-thing?.out=jpg&size=l&tid=35799155" /> </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"It's either an ugly hotel lamp shade or a hula skirt. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I can't make up my mind." </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">"You could just say it's ugly."</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"But it's so much more than that..."</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">"Is it really?"</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"No. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">No you're right.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">It's just ugly."</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><img src="http://www.polyvore.com/cgi/img-thing?.out=jpg&size=l&tid=38601149" /></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"Fracket: The straight-jacket for unruly feet. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">This is the next Snuggie.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">No question.</span>"<br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(We already have the subject for our infomercial! </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">You know the Snuggie commercial clip that immediately induces anxiety? </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">The one where the grandma's wrestling down the vicious killer-blanket seemingly hell-bent on strangling her? </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0eINGyJHz8&feature=related">Here's our anti-freedom-for-feet-for-our-own-and-the-public's-safety poster child</a>. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Be advised...the wobbly ankles cause a real "foot-for-all." </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">It's one of those moments that's almost too painful to watch. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">No, no I take that back.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">It's really fun to watch.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Just like the grandma fending off the Satan's pre-snuggie spawn.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Enjoy.)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><img height="181" src="http://s7d2.scene7.com/is/image/DSWShoes/223970_101_ss_01?$search$" width="200" /></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"seadoo! woooooo!!!"</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">(Insert engine revving noises here and Parker jumping his imaginary seadoo over my shoulders, head, chest, elbows, chest, bicep, chest, bridge of my nose, etc. etc. etc. He seemed to focus his attention on those places with the best "wake."</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I smashed the seadoo shortly thereafter.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">After a few more half-hearted jumps</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">he decided not to invest in repairs. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><img alt="sm womens kyle pump taupe" src="http://resources.shopstyle.com/sim/ad/4e/ad4effe1fe822008c97496e61550056e/dsw-sm-womens-kyle-pump-red.jpg" /></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"The phone!"</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">(In reference to the MMS I'd sent him earlier in the day.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><img height="300" src="https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&ik=a3a3f79d60&view=att&th=131b83c97b6ae50c&attid=0.1&disp=inline&zw" width="400" /></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: xx-small;">"I think it's down to these two unless I order online. Which do you like better?"</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">"Not the phone-looking ones on your right foot."</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: xx-small;">"Phone-looking. okay..."</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">"They look like a phone."</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: xx-small;">"Yeah I got that. I just don't see it."</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">"Just don't buy them."</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: xx-small;">"Okay crazy...by the way, your new shirt looks like a blender."</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">"That doesn't make sense."</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: xx-small;">"I realized that."</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><img src="http://www.polyvore.com/cgi/img-thing?.out=jpg&size=l&tid=37169256" /></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"Fat zebra!"</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><img src="http://resources.shopstyle.com/sim/3d/45/3d45dac2e0176c94ba4910e22f8c8939/impo-dsw-pumps-velocity-pump-75black.jpg" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times;"><img height="200" src="http://www.polyvore.com/cgi/img-thing?.out=jpg&size=l&tid=35013441" width="200" /><img alt="Liz Claiborne Carletta Oxford Pump" src="http://s7d2.scene7.com/is/image/DSWShoes/226198_190_ss_01?$search$" /></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><img src="http://www2.muahangmy.com/uploads/product/mhm/2010/01/07/13/Untitled144_2.jpg" /></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><img src="http://resources.shopstyle.com/sim/50/f5/50f54000e713b1e29cf1a525e521f5da/dsw-sm-womens-randi-oxford-black.jpg" /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times;"><img src="http://www.polyvore.com/cgi/img-thing?.out=jpg&size=l&tid=30428610" /></span><img src="http://resources.shopstyle.com/sim/26/5c/265cb6579dc27e8b6a634ab8c16ca3e9/dsw-sm-womens-lenor-wedge-pump-olive.jpg" /></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"It is an insult to dads and grandpas everywhere to put these shoes on stilts."</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><img src="http://www.polyvore.com/cgi/img-thing?.out=jpg&size=l&tid=22587021" /></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"And this is an insult to rodeo clowns." </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">"I know honey. They've suffered enough."</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><img src="http://www.polyvore.com/cgi/img-thing?.out=jpg&size=l&tid=38345274" /></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">"Park! Look! This one's got the same disease as the barnacle-people from Davy Jone's ship on <i>Pirates</i>."</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"Oh baby..."</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><img src="http://www.polyvore.com/cgi/img-thing?.out=jpg&size=l&tid=37029452" /></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">"Oh and look! Pilgrims!"</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"Sweetie!"</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">"What?!"</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"It's okay."</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">"What's okay?"</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"You don't have to try so hard."</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">"I'm not trying. I really do see it."</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"Kind of like how you saw the phone?"</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">"Oh you are kidding..."</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"It's okay babe. This sort of thing doesn't come naturally to <i>everyone</i>. That's why it's a gift!"</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">"You are <i>such</i> a wiener sometimes..."</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"There are worse things than wieners Chels."</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">"Oh my..."</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Parker snickers.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I try to dismiss him.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">He tells me he's having fun.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I tell him to leave anyway.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">He doesn't leave.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I continue to try not to laugh at his jokes 'til finally</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><b>finally</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">we find THE shoe.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">or should I say shoe(s)?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Does it count if you order two pair with the <i>intent</i> to take one back?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">nah...</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><img src="http://www.polyvore.com/cgi/img-thing?.out=jpg&size=l&tid=37561945" /></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Hallelujah!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">success.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">a few squabbles over personal interpretations of the phrases "great deal" and "awesome discount," two returns, a million-more second opinions, and one rush order to Reno later, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">we had 'em.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">in that shade.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">in my size.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">in time for the wedding.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">check.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">check.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">check.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Next time I'm going to Wally World.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>the end.</i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Note: Just because I did not consult you about the shoe purchase does not, in any way, immediately slate you as a potential candidate for any of the above unsuitable-second-opinion-giver categories. Okay? Okay.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">P.S. I devoted an inordinate amount of time to a fairly insignificant shoe squabble when we have SO much to cover.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">still to come...</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;">graduation</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>gym buddies</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">Lake Shasta</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><i>Girls' Camp</i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">new friends!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">Fourth of July</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">old friends!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Lake Powell</i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Lagoon</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">one</span> best friend's </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;">mission</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">two</span> best friends' </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>weddings</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">my brother-in-law's super-cute </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><b>fiance</b></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">the </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;"><b>new job</b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> I'm absolutely in love with</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">and <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">so. much. more.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i>stay tuned...</i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">and oh...</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">it's so good to be back</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">:)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div>Parker & Chelsey DeMillehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04753140257112122115noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2969888342910468392.post-57615245579204790672011-05-03T18:28:00.000-07:002011-05-03T22:49:46.808-07:00this little piggy<div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuBKUQ6iN5UW6jp6r1taBa3KKo2zOMrGaipffFo9_mHal1uiHdFdlkSYdLUpXbC-1r2lzfYrtOPMt66u3NUkaOaZc4dzmhS_B5oUcwzKUsUTEYT-gBAoH3jPSYTebwESkuj7Ac122U6JUW/s1600/IMG_0163.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuBKUQ6iN5UW6jp6r1taBa3KKo2zOMrGaipffFo9_mHal1uiHdFdlkSYdLUpXbC-1r2lzfYrtOPMt66u3NUkaOaZc4dzmhS_B5oUcwzKUsUTEYT-gBAoH3jPSYTebwESkuj7Ac122U6JUW/s400/IMG_0163.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">is <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">broken</span>.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">and it's driving me crazy. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">And I, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">in turn, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">am driving my husband crazy.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnNPTHRs7Fh3vJFazY2NW9Fr1pAqId4HRx0uK8y_FY3U4374ToM121r43RSDqP81gTNEOG8Mbu-EC53AF2mkfU_UY334ZMg-ZoY4_B6unIxUflFCmMBtX_BMmlfSYYxWOk1GuIecmL_gy3/s1600/IMG_0181.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnNPTHRs7Fh3vJFazY2NW9Fr1pAqId4HRx0uK8y_FY3U4374ToM121r43RSDqP81gTNEOG8Mbu-EC53AF2mkfU_UY334ZMg-ZoY4_B6unIxUflFCmMBtX_BMmlfSYYxWOk1GuIecmL_gy3/s400/IMG_0181.jpg" width="300" /></a></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">He is trying to study.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">it's finals week.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">BOO.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">And I...</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">well, I've become the kind of study buddy you only invite along on those nights when you know very well that you have no intention of studying anyway.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjde_7emW0L0fbXmrxFCYMut33IB6cdD6ElGP0i7f5VPJYCC43-bzsrhBlaiFc55V3Z6Nbvjx4XakaA_RllGqIdNxdXLnB8PGAFufkf4NpKL9H-JxPSXBLy_rR0O9PQ2AO48jqGGkEcEQIL/s1600/IMG_0199.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjde_7emW0L0fbXmrxFCYMut33IB6cdD6ElGP0i7f5VPJYCC43-bzsrhBlaiFc55V3Z6Nbvjx4XakaA_RllGqIdNxdXLnB8PGAFufkf4NpKL9H-JxPSXBLy_rR0O9PQ2AO48jqGGkEcEQIL/s400/IMG_0199.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">i am quite entertaining.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">a hoot, if you will.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">unless you are trying to study.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">like Parker.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">then...</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">well,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">i become a bit of a distraction.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I can't keep quiet,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I ask a million-and-one questions about everything <i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">but</span></i> physiology when commissioned to be the flashcard mediator,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">and I demand attention.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times;"></span></span><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">As I did with my lovely rendition of the Indiana Jones theme song and Sesame Street's "rubber duckie." </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I may have forced a kiss or two or twenty-something on Parker as well.</span></span></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I don't really know.</span></span></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I stopped counting after fifteen.</span></span></div></div><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">i pity 'da fool who doesn't got a tub.</span></td></tr>
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</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhA-xGNRk3LcwYHIOVMLPM_gyfov3aa9eWmzSaCA1fS-ZMp-br34GrntahUtf4Gj5RD7TkfAa9VxtA2x2M7NWlmJJ3B8gDLcjFnV8DPQoUkOmqHqMOOeJNinQDl2X9arzBA14pgc5Cpylo1/s1600/jdin833l.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="253" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhA-xGNRk3LcwYHIOVMLPM_gyfov3aa9eWmzSaCA1fS-ZMp-br34GrntahUtf4Gj5RD7TkfAa9VxtA2x2M7NWlmJJ3B8gDLcjFnV8DPQoUkOmqHqMOOeJNinQDl2X9arzBA14pgc5Cpylo1/s320/jdin833l.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I make requests,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">"Baby can you PLEASE get me a glass of water. I think I'm dying..."</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">then demands.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">"Kiss me</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">"Squash me."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">"Cuddle me."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I pick fights,</span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicPRl7SsF_st4S6WSfsrOnwYAMD-9CgsFGbNMqGOk5QytpWvVTz5YPrk1K5F5OJBDYS3uI63Fe34bugcsK2HCI0KNwkibAuAt5iYtqByYYy3X_xJSv4UD3Z9z-63lByn2jfvDGOaaemUdS/s1600/6a00d834e06b8c69e200e54f655d848833-800wi.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="283" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicPRl7SsF_st4S6WSfsrOnwYAMD-9CgsFGbNMqGOk5QytpWvVTz5YPrk1K5F5OJBDYS3uI63Fe34bugcsK2HCI0KNwkibAuAt5iYtqByYYy3X_xJSv4UD3Z9z-63lByn2jfvDGOaaemUdS/s320/6a00d834e06b8c69e200e54f655d848833-800wi.jpg" width="320" /></a></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">"I'd like to wear your slippers."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">"No."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">"Give them to me."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">"No."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">"Give them to me <i>now</i>."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">"No."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">"Parker...I want. the slippers."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">"No."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">(scuffle ensues)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">and pity my plight.</span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg90P47TpHvhgVtTMYciWxps8q9CNDzT9tAaz765uuAG9U80Djco_eWEsVRuB7JGBy3ttMx1Lsk6ehRIG6yHbI7F__k6p1OUCD9ZopmecsD6uZxdGyMA878D7PWo3qbXwaZKQK-qp-QKBgI/s1600/70454_100000852983781_7556211_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg90P47TpHvhgVtTMYciWxps8q9CNDzT9tAaz765uuAG9U80Djco_eWEsVRuB7JGBy3ttMx1Lsk6ehRIG6yHbI7F__k6p1OUCD9ZopmecsD6uZxdGyMA878D7PWo3qbXwaZKQK-qp-QKBgI/s1600/70454_100000852983781_7556211_n.jpg" /></a></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">(Parker closes the blinds).</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">"Leave them open!!!"</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">"Why?"</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">"I'm glOOOOOmy."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">"You're glOOOOmy?"</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">"Yes I'm glOOOOmy.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">And when you close the blinds the room gets gloomiER."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">"Why are you gloomy?"</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">'I don't know.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I took my pills..."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">(</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Parker calls my D vitamins my happy pills.)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">"Oh...you should take another one."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">funny...</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">not.</span><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Finally I decide that I do actually want him to be a dentist someday so I can be a super-cute, super-fit, super-spiritual, super-smart, super-perfect stay-at-home mommy,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> and so I look for a way to spare him from my </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;">i-can't-run-at-the-gym-because-i'm-a-gimp-and-i-don't-feel-like-doing-anything-else-productive-so-i-may-as-well-make-sure-my-unduly-unsympathetic-husband-feels-equally-sidetracked-stir-crazy-and-unproductive</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">alter-ego.</span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9TpiZ4JXeJE5civ1HUhSv_tON51bBOA0wYgIVDTsQgjumkowEDdBoeltF0LHhW_OvqnjAKvEfSACWM0KaDmprKU8B_3xZ-sZRIKsqRwlcFZJpMBbKQcvEGotFkwzVpMS3mShRn5_woUNB/s1600/Funny-Evil-Cat.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9TpiZ4JXeJE5civ1HUhSv_tON51bBOA0wYgIVDTsQgjumkowEDdBoeltF0LHhW_OvqnjAKvEfSACWM0KaDmprKU8B_3xZ-sZRIKsqRwlcFZJpMBbKQcvEGotFkwzVpMS3mShRn5_woUNB/s1600/Funny-Evil-Cat.jpg" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">note: how do you differentiate between your ego and your alter-ego?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">because if your alter-ego is an aspect of your personality that emerges once in a blue moon,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">then this is likely just my ego.</span><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHoZ65vE2a-7Bon75a-rhf9nKFKGZsFIccAwSgnDXObm6mqLJVhxIopnWNsEI7mpWtJPZbf4IBrshAxYTI4RefdswWRQGbTo15s9G2xLz-lDiekxilCs3cBz6fHI9fXMqQazFF7umaqxEv/s1600/funny-dog-pictures-dog-asks-for-hotdog-treat.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHoZ65vE2a-7Bon75a-rhf9nKFKGZsFIccAwSgnDXObm6mqLJVhxIopnWNsEI7mpWtJPZbf4IBrshAxYTI4RefdswWRQGbTo15s9G2xLz-lDiekxilCs3cBz6fHI9fXMqQazFF7umaqxEv/s320/funny-dog-pictures-dog-asks-for-hotdog-treat.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Either way, I decide to escape my self-imposed house arrest sentence with a seemingly magnanimous mission.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">"Baby, let me go buy you a treat! What would you like?"</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">"Thanks sweetie, but I'm really not hungry."</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">"How are you not hungry? You are a boy."</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">"I am. But tonight my 'big boy' dinner stuffed me so full that nothing sounds good. If anything I'll just have a creamie."</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">"A creamie? I selflessly offer to spend my night tracking down your all-time favorite treat and you ask for a <i>creamie</i>?"</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">"But I like creamies..." </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">"I know. It's just that we already have creamies just chilling in our freezer."</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">"Chilling...ha..."</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">"No! No puns!"</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">"Okay..."</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">"Thank you for helping me find an activity that'll expend 2.5 nano-seconds of the <i>hours</i> of free time I'm looking to kill."</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">...........</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">......</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">...</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">"You could feed it to me too..."</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">(I've tried for 5-minutes and realized it's impossible.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">There are no words powerful to describe the look I gave him). </span><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyupf2Jx1yeyVPItzv4kLKXYKSgicL3gCrM58iGMP6gT-se7QaFdcTnk1AZX2APpLBtIh5DymG9C1C_RK35kgdJgiOyDqz3evEsdsMRb0T8RckTh8S-ifMBPhFfvd2KYdWQU0crNCH776t/s1600/128734775200198456.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="250" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyupf2Jx1yeyVPItzv4kLKXYKSgicL3gCrM58iGMP6gT-se7QaFdcTnk1AZX2APpLBtIh5DymG9C1C_RK35kgdJgiOyDqz3evEsdsMRb0T8RckTh8S-ifMBPhFfvd2KYdWQU0crNCH776t/s400/128734775200198456.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Once my weakly-masked selfish motives surface, I force Parker to play the guess-what-the-kid-in-the-pantry-who-thinks-she's-hungry-but-really-isn't-wants-to-eat.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">"Chels...you're not even hungry. You're just bored."</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">"I know! But bored hungry is the worst kind of hungry."</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">"Do you want some ma-may?"</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">(Parker's pet name for edamame).</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">"No."</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">"How 'bout a Rice Krispie treat? You <i>love</i> marshmallows..."</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">"No."</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">"We could get you a bapple!"</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">"No,"</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">I whimper pitifully.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">"Not even a bapple?"</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">"Not even a bapple."</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">"Wow. Is it really 2012 already?"</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">At this point I remember the whole I-want-my-husband-to-be-a-sexy-successful-ultra-bright-smiled-dentist-who-can-write-me-prescriptions-and-get-me-free-bleach and decide I'll leave Parker in peace.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">He doesn't seem to approve of my going to the store in my current state unsupervised; armed and dangerous with a credit card, a rumbling tummy, and a history of unnecessary impulse purchases that precipitate a crippling case of buyer's remorse</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">(or in the case of food, an awful tummy ache).</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">So he makes me a shopping list.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">"Buy milk."</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">That's all it said.</span><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjd-DF8RKrU4Fdj9hsBPG7XgCmAPnpIhFhHKUnLf-Yaulh-FiKty0Q9sSzySiw7St5YBJyl-3lXo9jQs-N2EdAts5vZrfDMNANBVVQRd8o1r9ZT2OKfBVPbf3PVdGbQ0oNc7QJGW1Fm57AF/s1600/milk.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjd-DF8RKrU4Fdj9hsBPG7XgCmAPnpIhFhHKUnLf-Yaulh-FiKty0Q9sSzySiw7St5YBJyl-3lXo9jQs-N2EdAts5vZrfDMNANBVVQRd8o1r9ZT2OKfBVPbf3PVdGbQ0oNc7QJGW1Fm57AF/s320/milk.gif" width="305" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">30 minutes later I made my way home, milk in tow.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">With the raspberries I'd found for a steal,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">("Chels...$2.99 for a teeny tiny tub of raspberries is not a steal."</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">"The sign said sale..."</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">blank stare</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">"Did I mention it was yellow?"</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">two packages of Milano cookies,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">and pretzel crisps.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I spend the rest of my night munching my way into a carb-coma and stay up <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">way</span> too late reading this here <a href="http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/">blog</a> wondering if I can maybe find a way to be a full-time stick-figure artist too.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">We'll see what I can work out.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I'm <i>really</i> hoping I'll be better soon.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">'Til then, these are the kind of posts you'll have to look forward to.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">sorry Charlie.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">oh!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I just realized.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">You'd probably like to know how I broke my baby toe.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Here's the reader's digest version.</span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYqCYTFh42UjcmGoU876npJao-hcoi2lekr0DY5qZxFwlMWbbHr6RDw5-GyCc5ioRQibI68z0iGzVqIuDBq1psm3e2xlH3jovaB_N96YdtIpXlq3jMwmkqlGlyADB_iB_q0QoS_N6h1Fmr/s1600/IMG_0161.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYqCYTFh42UjcmGoU876npJao-hcoi2lekr0DY5qZxFwlMWbbHr6RDw5-GyCc5ioRQibI68z0iGzVqIuDBq1psm3e2xlH3jovaB_N96YdtIpXlq3jMwmkqlGlyADB_iB_q0QoS_N6h1Fmr/s400/IMG_0161.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">it's Thursday.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">husband is sick of studying.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">husband will do anything not to study.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">husband sees wife.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">husband slowly sets his books aside.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">wife notices this subtle movement and anticipates his next move.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">she bats her eyelashes and coyly averts her gaze.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">she'll let him think he's surprised her.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">and he...he surprises her alright.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">she stares wide-eyed at her attacker.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"what are you</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">doing</span>?"</i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"I just tackled you."</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"I'm aware of that.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">What now?"</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"I'm thinking imma gonna squash you."</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"I'm thinking imma 'bout to kill you."</span><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjB59N3Dn4VyMKJlyWgEOjv7Fw-rSptYeRw4b34G9elnVWgJuZdU_7EV9FYIDXOYJIX_bvgJoJtoFnL5FlbDrJsgm3yV-IjBtpm2dklWJrx_9cnq3wuonUUVoTwZMwyNJd72t0NcYwswJps/s1600/funny-cat-fight.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjB59N3Dn4VyMKJlyWgEOjv7Fw-rSptYeRw4b34G9elnVWgJuZdU_7EV9FYIDXOYJIX_bvgJoJtoFnL5FlbDrJsgm3yV-IjBtpm2dklWJrx_9cnq3wuonUUVoTwZMwyNJd72t0NcYwswJps/s400/funny-cat-fight.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">mayhem ensues.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;">wriggle</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><i>writhe</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">swat</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">slap</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">sneak away</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>sneak attack</b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><b>body slam</b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><i>bite the hand</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">it culminates with a stand-off in the front room.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">i prepare to strike.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">blocked</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">i go again.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">blocked</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">.</span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">and again.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">and again.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">and again.</span><br />
<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">blocked</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">.</span></b><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><b>blocked.</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><b>blocked.</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">he begins to laugh.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i>"tee-hee-hee,"</i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">like a little baby snake.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">so I swing again.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">and slap him square on the cheek.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">smack!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">it was quite a bit harder than I'd expected.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Now it's husband who's wide-eyed</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">and wife who's smug</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">...and then very scared.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">she bolts.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">and in her panic,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">missteps,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">catching her beloved baby toe on a corner.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">she stops in her tracks.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">does she dare look?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">she does.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">and about passes out.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">the baby toe</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">once straight as a dry spaghetti noodle</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">now lies lifelessly on its side. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">husband comes barreling around the corner, nearly trampling wife.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">she points to his victim.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"He's dead.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Oh Park I can't believe you <i>killed</i> him!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I'll never wear flip-flops again!"</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">husband </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">laughs</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b>and laughs.</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><b>and laughs.</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><b>and laughs.</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><b><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">wife cries/laughs and makes him google how to fix it,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">insisting a visit to the ER might be her only chance at a normal life.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">husband refuses when wife tries to paint a chipped toenail for a picture.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">he says she can't be <i>that</i> hurt if she cares more about a picture than an ice pack.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">wife tells husband to be quiet and tape the trembling toe.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">wife lies helplessly on the ground, icing the injury with a pack of frozen baby lima beans.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">wife reminds husband often of how bad he should feel.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">husband doesn't feel bad.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">wife now walks like she has a peg-leg.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>the end.</i></span></div>Parker & Chelsey DeMillehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04753140257112122115noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2969888342910468392.post-31571974407834820152011-04-12T20:27:00.000-07:002011-04-13T00:23:58.398-07:00my list<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I keep a list on my phone of all those things I'd love to write about when I find the time to write.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">But as the list grows longer,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">my window of free time grows smaller,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">and I begin to feel a bit overwhelmed</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">by the idea that I'm so very far behind.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Which makes no sense...</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">how am I falling behind?</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I'm my own boss here.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">No one knows I have this list.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">And these aren't even "timely" stories.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I think I'm just so used to having deadlines...</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">anyway.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;"></span>I think I'd feel more at peace if I shared just a small bit of this list.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">so that's the plan today.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">good luck keeping up </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">with my </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">ever-so-</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">random ramblings.</span><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLtLSy67QrdLYKg68ok573LiZfuqoIcqQe8V7JIJZiQ69WvMbgS9DQ1zQ_CNrHijfO2q354PL5YrFl9QEwCXRy4PhE4WEPRVztrX593giV04ZexE3Lmh9lXqh3UgSoosKNeCYJKerUQmcR/s1600/brooklyn-marriott2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="281" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLtLSy67QrdLYKg68ok573LiZfuqoIcqQe8V7JIJZiQ69WvMbgS9DQ1zQ_CNrHijfO2q354PL5YrFl9QEwCXRy4PhE4WEPRVztrX593giV04ZexE3Lmh9lXqh3UgSoosKNeCYJKerUQmcR/s400/brooklyn-marriott2.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">1. I love the scent of <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">hotel sheets</span>.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I realized this on our most recent visit to the Marriott.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">And as often as we're warned about the cleanliness of hotel comforters</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">or the mass of bed bugs revealed during Dateline's latest black light investigation,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">these sheets</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">to me,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">have this </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">crisp, clean,</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">fresh</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">feel you can't find anywhere else.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Parker says this is all the result of an associative relationship.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Hotel sheets remind us of vacationing and </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">our most memorable weekend get-aways.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">And because we so love these respites from reality,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">we have a highly positive response to the scent of our bleach-bright-white sheets.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> I thought that made sense...</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">but whatever the real reason may be,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I love hotel sheets.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I just do.</span><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnEmLiohpue5DY_DBy1gFOemF7-gR_okvrG5SmtNLqCYYQb9CyvfIfYwNDNKuBMB_Rezi_wuK7OLzyEhG2ejKU1Jmy2t-nJyP6r8LDPXvOvBmL7I3-e1ytHyN2VitQr3dkmhvJRKq_vgbf/s1600/florence2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnEmLiohpue5DY_DBy1gFOemF7-gR_okvrG5SmtNLqCYYQb9CyvfIfYwNDNKuBMB_Rezi_wuK7OLzyEhG2ejKU1Jmy2t-nJyP6r8LDPXvOvBmL7I3-e1ytHyN2VitQr3dkmhvJRKq_vgbf/s400/florence2.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">2. I cozied in for a quick Sunday nap around 4:30.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Parker held me tight 'til I drifted off to sleep</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">and tried to wake me when he woke.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">but discovered I'd fallen into a Sunday coma.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">And despite all his best efforts to help me avoid a sleepless night,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I slept on.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>and on.</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><b>and on.</b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;">and on.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">and straight on through until 8:30 a.m. the next morning.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><b>16 hours</b></span> of sleep people.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I nearly slept one whole day away.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">And how would you expect one to feel after such a sweet slumber?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;">rested.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"> </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;">refreshed.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"> </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">renewed.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>revitalized.</i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I expected just as much.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">But no.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">This sleeping beauty battled a feverish flu instead.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">My post-hibernation hangover if you will.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">It's miserable.</span><br />
<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">I'm miserable.</span></i><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">And since sleep seemed to trigger it,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I'm absolutely clueless as to what the cure may be.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">*pathetic whimper*</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">*sigh*</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">*a bit of music from the world's smallest violin*</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I'll be fine in time...</span><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7qpjRFJVTOzLw4KO8vmgCm3e3C55MTgPkINCzKjuH_KK6jR_EfEY9EhjwoMob-Kw8AhyphenhyphenFPrlnGPZDY5KSoI2eBISssFvnPTBbCJ6eT1-evyOtS4mh5f29OoFI00sesqOpuF_y0fRqSRzW/s1600/267823488_2bb21bcc2e.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7qpjRFJVTOzLw4KO8vmgCm3e3C55MTgPkINCzKjuH_KK6jR_EfEY9EhjwoMob-Kw8AhyphenhyphenFPrlnGPZDY5KSoI2eBISssFvnPTBbCJ6eT1-evyOtS4mh5f29OoFI00sesqOpuF_y0fRqSRzW/s400/267823488_2bb21bcc2e.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">3. When Parker hit the hay on coma-Sunday</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">he <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">supposedly</span> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">was met by a little blanket hog.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">As expressed in earlier posts,</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Parker likes to tuck into a perfect made bed.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Much to his dismay, a <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">cuddly little bed bug</span> had fallen fast asleep all snuggled up in a tangled mess of blankets.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">And anytime he attempted to pry the blankets from her little palms</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">she resisted.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">With </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>fervor</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">And he laughed himself silly over it.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">har. har. har.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">That next morning </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">the bed-maker recounted the story of the little bed bug who wouldn't share</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">and guess what?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">No one believed him.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Because everyone knows this little bed bug LOVES to share.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Nevertheless,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">he's standing by his story.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">And the bed bug...</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">well...</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">she's finding every reason not to believe it.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">"Did you at least <i>try </i>to cuddle me?"</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">"No..."</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">"Well of course I didn't share!</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"> </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">You made my subconscious sad.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">And sad subconscious-es don't share."</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">"Oh my! How could I have overlooked that?"</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">"Beats me..."</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">4. I want more <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Words With Friends</span> friends.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I love the friends I have now.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I play Words-With-Family.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Words-With-Bankers.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Words-With-Husband.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">You name it!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">but I have very few Words-With-</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>friends</i>.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">so we should be friends!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Warning:</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">It's absolutely addicting.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"> Whether you're a day or a year behind the bandwagon,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">you'll be hooked.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Promise.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">And note:</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">(I will accept games with family & bankers too.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">their words seem to be the funniest anyway.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">"boobie."</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">"beery."</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">"noodled."</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">you name it.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">they play it.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">it's hilarious.)</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Also note:</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Equally hilarious is the fact that my co-worker's husband is convinced "Angry Birds" is called "Birds With Friends."</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">LOL</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">end notes.</span><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEja-8wFSIuRYLVFqaCfRRPzIkgFPaovAKnEmBEVLK3SrTQBuDzvIqWMUwaW6VknKfCFaq7LLGmexfIu7szwqMuLmIHmZE2WaPkZlf84r7MJYESdHhVZtfA1cf4al9_KQtkMMeXACIStzzkQ/s1600/multi-colored-brain.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="318" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEja-8wFSIuRYLVFqaCfRRPzIkgFPaovAKnEmBEVLK3SrTQBuDzvIqWMUwaW6VknKfCFaq7LLGmexfIu7szwqMuLmIHmZE2WaPkZlf84r7MJYESdHhVZtfA1cf4al9_KQtkMMeXACIStzzkQ/s320/multi-colored-brain.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">5. Remember Spirit magazine's brain features that boggled my mind?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Here are the highlights...</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="SectionStart" style="font-size: x-small;">I’m trying to focus </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">like a laser on what Dr. Sandra Bond Chapman is saying, but her iPhone keeps pinging with e-mail alerts. “A wealth of information creates poverty of thought.” </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Ping!</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"> “We wear our ability to multitask like a badge of achievement when it’s really the worst thing we can do to our brain.” </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Ping!</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"> “Fifty percent of how we use our brain is toxic for the brain.” </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Ping! </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">“The most powerful part of the brain is its blocking ability, but teens aren’t developing it because of information overload.” </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Ping!</span></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">I loved that quote!</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large; line-height: 18px;"><i>"A wealth of information creates a poverty of thought."</i></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">How often do I find myself splitting my brain between two thoughts before simultaneously forgetting both of them?</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">Too often!</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">How many times have I initiated a conversation, only to be distracted by the one being had next to me</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">(and then walked away feeling like the slight-ER for so poorly handling the first and the slight-EE for missing out on so much of the second)?</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">Too many!</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Why then, </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">when I'm fully aware that this is the risk associated with multitasking,</span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;"></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">do I continue on with this bad behavior?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">because </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large; font-style: italic;">"we wear our ability to multitask like a </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><b>badge of achievement</b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large; font-style: italic;"> when it's </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><i>really</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large; font-style: italic;"> the </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><b>worst</b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large; font-style: italic;"> thing we can do to our brain."</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">the function of that "blocking" ability we're all failing to develop is this:</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">the brain’s great ability to </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;">neutralize</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;">distractions</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">, </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">to govern its own</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><i>furiously thrumming pathways</i></b></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> and trillions of </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><i>synaptic connections</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> for the purpose of </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">heightened concentration </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">and </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>higher cognitive thinking</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">. </span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">The brightest of minds are master-blockers.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">I, on the other hand, am not.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">but I do aim to try!</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">If you'd like to learn more about this topic click <a href="http://www.spiritmag.com/features/article/this_is_our_brain/">here</a>.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">6. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><i>Did you know..?</i></span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="SectionStart">Two things distinguish</span> the human personality from that of a mouse.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">One is our profoundly </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><i>social</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> lifestyle. </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">"Biologically, we’re built to share. Without ever meaning to, we care. Even the nastiest person you know cares more than the nicest weasel or bear.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">” </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The other distinction is the </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>substantial size</b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> of our brains: </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">“Our tremendous mental wattage, plus our social instincts, yield nuances of behavior that we don’t see in other creatures.”</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"> </span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">In a word: </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">quirks.</span></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">The article goes onto explain how the human personality,</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">once described by more than 17,953 distinct adjectives,</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">can now be summed up in just 5 facets.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">a.k.a. quirks</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large; line-height: 18px;"><i>openness</i></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large; line-height: 18px;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">conscientiousness</span></i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: xx-small;">orderliness</span></i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large; line-height: 18px;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">neuroticism</span></i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">anxiety</span></i></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">While I'm never one to buy into personality tests,</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large; line-height: 18px;">and what do you know?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">the personality test based on the brain pinned me perfectly.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">high </span>emotionality</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">highly </span>implusive</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large; line-height: 18px;"> </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">and <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">highly </span>altruistic</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">with <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">low</span> levels of orderliness & anxiety</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">as much as I wish I were tidy, I'm not.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">not just yet.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">anyway, I liked it.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">and if you like the idea</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">right </span><a href="http://www.spiritmag.com/features/article/the_mouse_house/" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">here</a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">.</span></span><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjz9dlF9G4shb0bvm273jkZ4YALsGOyInq_honFXsTPWT3hxBoXeJkiAvd8hIv3uQKSQOxMW018z0LOlNqlnuDUjmDc0sCgLiNkNjIXyPtILe6rkA3-2rJbnw_cMhYzj1DUbAgvap_mVWXN/s1600/3290192957_d6bd26b5fa.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjz9dlF9G4shb0bvm273jkZ4YALsGOyInq_honFXsTPWT3hxBoXeJkiAvd8hIv3uQKSQOxMW018z0LOlNqlnuDUjmDc0sCgLiNkNjIXyPtILe6rkA3-2rJbnw_cMhYzj1DUbAgvap_mVWXN/s400/3290192957_d6bd26b5fa.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">7. I think we'll end with lucky number 7 tonight as we were very </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;">lucky</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">, indeed, to have such an amazing leadership training this past week.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">Our stake leaders pulled out all the stops</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">to schedule our meeting</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">We listened to their inspired messages in a room that,</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">just hours before,</span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;"></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">hosted an assembly of all the auxiliaries of our church.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">As I gazed at the portraits of Sister Dalton, Sister Wixom, and </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; line-height: 18px;">Parker's favorite </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">Sister Beck, I knew in my heart that they were the reason for the lingering spirit I felt there.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">That little epiphany reaffirmed my testimony that they are </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><i>called of God</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> to lead the Young Women, Primary, and Relief Society programs of this Church.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">They've been <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">prepared</span>.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">And they are </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>inspired</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">As we toured their personal offices following the meeting,</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I wondered if I'm living my life in a way that the Lord can prepare me.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">Not to be a General President,</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">or even a president for that matter.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">but to be His </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">hands</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">someone whose </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">heart</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> is susceptible to His Spirit.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">a Saint who's <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><i>worthy</i></span> to carry out His work.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">I'm not sure how He'll use me.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">or if He'll even need me.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">but because I hope He someday will,</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">I want</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">more than anything</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"> to be ready.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; line-height: 18px;">and on those days where I feel like I'm so far from seeing or reaching my full divine potentia</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; line-height: 18px;">l,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; line-height: 18px;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; line-height: 18px;">I find comfort in my favorite quote from training</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; line-height: 18px;">:</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>Things Work Out</b></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>"It isn't as bad as you sometimes think it is.</i></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>It all works out. Don't worry.</i></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><i>I say that to myself every morning.</i></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><i>It will all work out.</i></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><i>If you do your best, it will all work out.</i></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><i>Put your trust in God and move forward</i></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><i>with faith and confidence in the future.</i></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><i>The Lord will not forsake us.</i></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><i>He will not forsake us if we put our trust in Him.</i></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><i>If we will pray to Him, if we will live worthy of His blessing,</i></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><i>He will hear our prayers."</i></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">-President Gordon B. Hinckley</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small; line-height: normal;"></span></span></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><i>"Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.</i></span></span></span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><i>In all thy ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct thy paths."</i></span></span></span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">-Proverbs 3:5-6</span></span></span></span></div><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I know with all my heart that this is true.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Now I just need to live it.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">:)</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; line-height: 18px;">happy Wednesday all!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">'til next time...</span></span></div>Parker & Chelsey DeMillehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04753140257112122115noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2969888342910468392.post-48924564143199956232011-04-12T20:17:00.000-07:002011-04-12T20:35:21.321-07:00wonderbra<div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMrhVY9uKaL9SJhDC7p_8kkr25yVYzILQDFnXEJfn0b2Me4_V_RJ1EuFX0dmkPDuixVstk6PoyWX0v2tk3bdEh_3NQT3E4FfwccYvrcLd_9b-iqdJgN1AaqokD2QW-o8NjzMne-Kc17z7-/s1600/Wonderbra.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMrhVY9uKaL9SJhDC7p_8kkr25yVYzILQDFnXEJfn0b2Me4_V_RJ1EuFX0dmkPDuixVstk6PoyWX0v2tk3bdEh_3NQT3E4FfwccYvrcLd_9b-iqdJgN1AaqokD2QW-o8NjzMne-Kc17z7-/s400/Wonderbra.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">'til just yesterday I didn't believe it existed.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I'd written it off as a tried-and-true trademark.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">A label formed and fashioned for the sole purpose of selling a product.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">but I was <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">wrong.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">though it's known by its own name,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">it's every bit deserving of this trademarked title.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I discovered it on my day off.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Though I'd known for quite awhile that I needed to make an adjustment or two to that aspect of my wardrobe,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I never could convince myself to make the time</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">or the investment.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Parker was floored when he found out just how much bras cost.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">VS bras especially. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I tried using a downhill analogy help him understand.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><i>"You boys buy Santa Cruz bikes because..."</i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><i>"They're the best. </i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><i>Best geometry. Best suspension. Best design."</i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><i>"Great!</i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><i>And I buy VS bras because..."</i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><i>"You like to spend money."</i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">(Why do I bother?)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">But Wednesday I had the time</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">and</span></b> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">an incentive to make the investment.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">love love LOVE those discount cards.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">and came away with,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">you guessed it,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">my </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;">wonderbra</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">.</span><br />
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</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">When the sales associate handed me "my size" I literally </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;">laughed out loud</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><i><br />
</i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Her response:</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i>"Don't think about it."</i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i><br />
</i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">so I didn't.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">and I'm so happy I didn't.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">because </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">in the world where </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">fit is <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><i>everything,</i></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I can confidently say that I've finally found the perfect fit.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">so perfect, in fact, that I came away with 2 that day!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">the only problem now...</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">making room in the budget fo</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">r at </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>least</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> one more.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">or maybe 4.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"> to replace the collection that's two sizes too small.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">but we'll worry about that another day.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">and spend today celebrating my great find,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">encouraging everyone to go and get sized,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">and laughing at </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Parker's comically positive reaction when he spotted my new purchase in its little pink bag.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"></span><br />
<div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">"It's so soft!"</span></span></div><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">"I know! I love it.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">"</span></span></div><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">"It's softer than my pillow!</span></span></div><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Maybe I could...?"</span></span></div><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">"No sweetie."</span></span></div><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">"Yeah you're right...</span></span></div><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I'd probably snag it with my man-scruff."</span></span></div><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">"What's this?"</span></span></div><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">"That's the wire."</span></span></div><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">"Oh</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">...this one's got good suspension!"</span></span></div><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><i>laughing</i></span></span></div><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">"It's called support sweetie."</span></span></div><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">"That makes sense.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">"</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">oh how I love his little learning curve</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">and the fact that he loves to learn.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">too cute!</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">p.s.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">this made me laugh...</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0o_PgjrvqabQgihkwrS10Njw66QaRtPJMPoy9z7tc5w2uBaWEEgnDuiAfDaon4-bD4TX-anYjCagJpWLme8uVolitLiMMG2Fl9Equk-yLN3T0mHapoFL__z3WYAkFKGDUJVTz7rDXoa4d/s1600/wonderbra-ad.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0o_PgjrvqabQgihkwrS10Njw66QaRtPJMPoy9z7tc5w2uBaWEEgnDuiAfDaon4-bD4TX-anYjCagJpWLme8uVolitLiMMG2Fl9Equk-yLN3T0mHapoFL__z3WYAkFKGDUJVTz7rDXoa4d/s400/wonderbra-ad.jpg" width="282" /></a></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">isn't it interesting that bra-shopping is the only time we'll willingly </span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">(and even happily)</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">go up a size?</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">shoes, jeans, & dresses</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">totally different story.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">funny no?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I thought so.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">:)</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">'til next time...</span></div></div>Parker & Chelsey DeMillehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04753140257112122115noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2969888342910468392.post-9256074055745113302011-04-07T00:49:00.000-07:002011-04-07T01:30:17.824-07:00surprise<div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhj2BuXFF0jjERMuYmXK_HsivElaZGJu9CIX63UURvPZLPA1ZIKi47TIDCNBjK0NSd_EcwKEgGoxDq4k84-Q53gLNyqd4p-MQOd9xpu5dLFQaXpTuLPI0wpFq53-Lfa3HpVbmBV3AMBSJOh/s1600/060420b_lg.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhj2BuXFF0jjERMuYmXK_HsivElaZGJu9CIX63UURvPZLPA1ZIKi47TIDCNBjK0NSd_EcwKEgGoxDq4k84-Q53gLNyqd4p-MQOd9xpu5dLFQaXpTuLPI0wpFq53-Lfa3HpVbmBV3AMBSJOh/s400/060420b_lg.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i>"I'm changing my flight,"</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I announce decidedly as I heave my massive duffel bag onto the backseat.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">One speed-pack and a few frantic glances at the clock later my family's agreed to attempting to squeeze in one desperately sought after bapple-run before my 6 o'clock flight.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Bapple's 30 minutes across town.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Airport's another 15 back in this direction.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">We have 45 minutes before I'm due to check-in.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">This is the logic of yours truly.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">anyway...</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">not really the time to be announcing any sort of itinerary change.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I explain my reasoning to the questioning crowd.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I have tomorrow off.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Southwest changes flights for free.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">My current flight </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">(post-lay-overs) </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;"></span>isn't scheduled to touch ground in Salt Lake 'til 11:50.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">And as much as I miss my dear husband, he confirmed earlier that he'd be spending his spring break at work.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><i>"Can't you sleep in? Go in a little late?"</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Answer: sorry, but no.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I'd love to, but no.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Our little reunion would have to wait.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">so to recap...</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I'm spending my whole night in transit</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">a night I could be spending with family.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">My one reason to go home</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">my husband</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">will be able to see me for a whopping 20 minutes</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">i.e. the duration of our drive home</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">before he becomes a big chubby pumpkin</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">it will be nearing 1 o'clock at this point.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Then said husband will be gone before I'm awake</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">leaving me to spend my whole day doing...well, nothing.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I don't expect to be </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><i>entertained</i></span> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">(per say)</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I just like to make the most of every minute of life outside the bank.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">And, as I see it, changing my flight is a win-win-win </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">(with just one drawback).</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">skip out on a backwards 2-stop flight and upgrade to a non-stop for FREE</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b>WIN</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">my night, once set to be spent in transit, will now be time spent with my family</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b>WIN</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">(oh and it's monday, mind you, so <i>Family</i> Home Evening's on the itinerary.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">let's see.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">games with my beloved fam-damily</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">or stale air shared with strangers on a plane?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">that's what I thought...)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I'll be home with my beloved husband just 10 hours later than I would have been otherwise </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">(more like 2 as 8 of those hours would have been spent sleeping anyhow)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b>WIN</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">But, of course,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">one more night w/o my Parker is, </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">at the same time,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">a </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>lose</b></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">So I weigh out my options and,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">what do you know,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">the </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b>WINS <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">win out 3:2</span></b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">(a night without Parker counts as 2 losses because,</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;"></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">yes,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I do miss him that much after just 3 days).</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">so with all this in mind,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I change my flight.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">just 30 minutes before I'm scheduled to check-in.</span></span><br />
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</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">And in the midst of all this,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">my <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>impulsiveness</b></span> </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">key word</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;"></span>overshadows my good sen</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">se</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">and wastes any thought remotely resembling a by-product of clear thinking.</span> </span><br />
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</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Should I maybe consult with my husband <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">(and ride)</span> before making any big itinerary changes?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">as my parents suggest</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">yes.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Do I?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">of course not.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">And this is</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">in short</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">how the rest of the story goes.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Chelsey: "Great news!"</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>blah, blah, blah</i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"Southwest thinks I'm crazy to cut it so close..."</span><br />
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</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Parker: "You are."</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Chelsey: "Why?"</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Parker: "Can you still make the flight?"</span><br />
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</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Chelsey: "Maybe but..."</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Parker: "Then change it back."</span><br />
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</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Chelsey: "</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Why?"</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i><br />
</i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Parker: "Just change it back."</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Chelsey: "Why?"</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Parker: "Just change it back."</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Chelsey:</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"baby.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">i love you.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">i do.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">but I need a better reason </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">to call in like a certified crazy </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><br />
</span><br />
<div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">and beg for the flight I just begged be changed."</span></div><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Parker: "I have a surprise..."</span></div><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i><b>Oh....</b></i></span></div><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">conversation shifts from</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>disbelief</i></span></div><div style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">to </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;">suspicion</span></div><div style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">to </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">sheer </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><b>curiosity</b></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b><br />
</b></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><b>By the time I've reached my hundredth <i>"What?" </i>he breaks.</b></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><b><i><br />
</i></b></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span">"I took tomorrow off,</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span">spent my entire afternoon </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">calling every Costco member in the family I could think of,</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">sped across town to borrow a card</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">(as ours was tucked safely away in my wallet with me in Sparks),</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">disguised myself to use said card,</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">paid in cash to avoid any name discrepancies</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">and keep from getting the boot,</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">and </span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">finally</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;"></span>purchased two passes to the </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><i>Canyons.</i></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">one for me, and one for my wife who likes surprises.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">*protest*</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I'm kidding.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">One's for you...</span></div><div style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">It's supposed to snow tonight.</div><div style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">I thought you'd like it."</div><div style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">He proceeded to tell me how excited he'd been to employ the element of surprise.</span></div><div style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">He couldn't wait to see my reaction at the airport that night.</span></div><div style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;"><i>"Oh woe is me,"</i></span></div><div style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">I'd thought.</span></div><div style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;"><i>"to be spending my whole day off all lonesome-like."</i></span></div><div style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">He'd had me fooled.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">And I'd ignorantly spoiled a very sweet surprise and stolen his thunder in the process.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">Lovely.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">Time for a bit of damage control...</span></div><div style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Needless to say,</div><div style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">after a frenzied phone call to rapid rewards,</div><div style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">during which conversation, </span></div><div style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">I'm sure,</span></div><div style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">the RR rep flagged me as a vacillating terrorist </span></div><div style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">for all my frenetic flight-swapping.</span></div><div style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">an unsettlingly long wait in bag check,</div><div style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">why do I always insist on packing full-size liquids?</span></div><div style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">a sprint through security,</div><div style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">followed by an announcement that my flight was, once again, an hour+ delayed.</span></div><div style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">a flight to Oakland,</div><div style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">where,</span></div><div style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">after sprinting to try and make my connection,</span></div><div style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">I discovered that the plane we'd planned to take wouldn't be arriving for another 2 hours.</span></div><div style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">lovely.</span></div><div style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">(thank goodness for Twizzler's cherry bites & Words With Friends)</span></div><div style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">and a few too many packets of honey-roasted peanuts later,</div><div style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">no such thing?</span></div><div style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">i thought so too.</span></div><div style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">I was home.</div><div style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">kissing Parker to pieces on the corner</span></div><div style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;"></span></span></div><div style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">(i just love the hellos after long goodbyes!</span></span></div><div style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">so, so sweet!)</span></span></div><div style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">and committing 5+ airport parking violations in the process</div><div style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">(lucky for us everyone was past caring by 2 A.M.).</span></div><div style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">And <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><b>6</b></span> hours,</div><div style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><b>1</b></span> gondola ride,<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeHMOlIYI9JbenKe0aMl0qhS_doFFGSrc9V6avnZAZucKsKgOUf6nnnqiFqJvO7pUFHTuPOPoitgUjNeaze4jEoj-3PbYdAVmlC3XnNQ6_0ktxPhcwPNKUj6VOiqkXecnwfTdgD1OqGXIw/s1600/IMG_1475.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeHMOlIYI9JbenKe0aMl0qhS_doFFGSrc9V6avnZAZucKsKgOUf6nnnqiFqJvO7pUFHTuPOPoitgUjNeaze4jEoj-3PbYdAVmlC3XnNQ6_0ktxPhcwPNKUj6VOiqkXecnwfTdgD1OqGXIw/s400/IMG_1475.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><b>3 </b></span>mountains,</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnV9WtA2uSVKyoqEsJXc311WfcHEp2-Hxm-ROGyGjLVP7aPEnmdoJ2QDE74nDvwgiWMT_C7pcLdhNhk9xET6VeHov73_3YuzWNiUgckgw_FyZIOFLApS3LsI25QQLy4NndHp0prKnpQ4_0/s1600/IMG_1469.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnV9WtA2uSVKyoqEsJXc311WfcHEp2-Hxm-ROGyGjLVP7aPEnmdoJ2QDE74nDvwgiWMT_C7pcLdhNhk9xET6VeHov73_3YuzWNiUgckgw_FyZIOFLApS3LsI25QQLy4NndHp0prKnpQ4_0/s400/IMG_1469.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4E_ybRveusago0NjlUUgMYsXGuoVEFFpltSxtjwUCZqGHD9HDrF_EoQeNTOGNcg2B3gwztiPdqBBgl4Kbq-ET-L_xNx06CUCazI2-VimgnCi6jypm_PENlX1t5tGBDlyWnY7cdCBA3WLF/s1600/IMG_1479.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4E_ybRveusago0NjlUUgMYsXGuoVEFFpltSxtjwUCZqGHD9HDrF_EoQeNTOGNcg2B3gwztiPdqBBgl4Kbq-ET-L_xNx06CUCazI2-VimgnCi6jypm_PENlX1t5tGBDlyWnY7cdCBA3WLF/s400/IMG_1479.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div></div><div style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><b>15</b></span> runs,<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7yVmd3BlsRkklQNJ5S8LHp2OWNPCldQi35gyxag0ovBEOUzQzPPNFzb8XS6rGi7Lr8Xby5KV7JYbG-av1v9HnueWL6azeWFRSB45fNOxFxWEIWjpcqkzVloiHPPSijBFLDGDkmobQwI7H/s1600/Powderfield8_640.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="301" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7yVmd3BlsRkklQNJ5S8LHp2OWNPCldQi35gyxag0ovBEOUzQzPPNFzb8XS6rGi7Lr8Xby5KV7JYbG-av1v9HnueWL6azeWFRSB45fNOxFxWEIWjpcqkzVloiHPPSijBFLDGDkmobQwI7H/s400/Powderfield8_640.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div></div><div style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">and <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><b>12</b></span> inches of fresh powder later,<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgg2A1p9W5i75yf2tGhKhVsStJJul1lETdz5oudQlv_7W2AFvazoP7uOfAVVhQfWwwfTPTNUppn77f0nj7ce_facZxmtIoExytRRhXs-1H9p_cGigHs2beUjDtqVU29yr1a5MK8JTWJyoG1/s1600/IMG_1484.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgg2A1p9W5i75yf2tGhKhVsStJJul1lETdz5oudQlv_7W2AFvazoP7uOfAVVhQfWwwfTPTNUppn77f0nj7ce_facZxmtIoExytRRhXs-1H9p_cGigHs2beUjDtqVU29yr1a5MK8JTWJyoG1/s400/IMG_1484.JPG" width="400" /></a></div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I'd spent the </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><b>best</b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> day with my </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><i>very</i><b> best friend</b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">.</span></div><div style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibUW7F9MFApW4jlg89rP62SBQFXP5m7zxI6x2W0ZTiTS4CGmBTuPnNB8HWWNLdgqDjHVLSt4FPG1HJ_qLz6sdg9fybqt_0X3NZVkiM3EPliG4G6V59yECI6R7qAzWOd_nYXxaVnvEKFQ59/s1600/IMG_1472.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibUW7F9MFApW4jlg89rP62SBQFXP5m7zxI6x2W0ZTiTS4CGmBTuPnNB8HWWNLdgqDjHVLSt4FPG1HJ_qLz6sdg9fybqt_0X3NZVkiM3EPliG4G6V59yECI6R7qAzWOd_nYXxaVnvEKFQ59/s400/IMG_1472.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">who, I hope, will always be full of surprises.</span></div><div style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">i love you Parker B.</span></div><div style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">thanks for the "surprise."</span></div><div style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">(And FYI: if you'll give me a next time, I'll never spoil it again).</span></div><div style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">promised.</span></div></div>Parker & Chelsey DeMillehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04753140257112122115noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2969888342910468392.post-63772327634270220522011-04-01T02:42:00.000-07:002011-04-01T02:42:32.947-07:00bapple<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><object class="BLOGGER-youtube-video" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0" data-thumbnail-src="http://1.gvt0.com/vi/BYBw_o_2nG0/0.jpg" height="266" width="320"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/BYBw_o_2nG0&fs=1&source=uds" /><param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF" /><embed width="320" height="266" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/BYBw_o_2nG0&fs=1&source=uds" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed></object></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">oh little minions...</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">i just love you!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">watching these mini-movies is like popping little yellow happy pills!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">but that's beside the point.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">i started and ended my trip home with my favorite friend.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">we have one of those bittersweet relationships</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">if you will.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">it's absolutely unhealthy</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">and wrong on </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>so</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> many levels.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">i feel absolutely awful by the end of our time together</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">and so guilty too.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">i know</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> i'd be better off without him.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">i'd be healthier,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">happier,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">with a wealth of cash and confidence.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">but i just can't stand the thought of ever giving him up.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">at times he's beyond sweet</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">and seems, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">to me,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">to be exactly what i need</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">'til I come to my senses and realize I </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">sought out a deceivingly empty source of comfort </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">for all the wrong reasons too.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">to be honest,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">i think the my main draw is the rush I feel when i see him.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">i never plan our little trysts.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">never know what's happening until I'm there.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">i say this only to ease my conscience.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I fully know </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">these "serendipitous" encounters are the result of an impulsive subconscious.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">i know what i'm doing when i do it,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">even if i like to pretend i don't.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">so,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">in sum,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">he's my forbidden fruit.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">dangerously appealing.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">delicious to the taste.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">the off-limits love i can't help but crave.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">he's...</span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_ycaw1gBseRljRuxi9B3qa8Cn82ZMBPBQAaScHpi6KSKP18aPLo80n1ozVFP6inUrpkiDOSnEG_RkD41oKBnuZGi_EuaE8Fzb6ERINY_O0hJcCSM1XafiGgIvANi7NvM-d0TBoSonN2Ij/s1600/applepieapple2.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_ycaw1gBseRljRuxi9B3qa8Cn82ZMBPBQAaScHpi6KSKP18aPLo80n1ozVFP6inUrpkiDOSnEG_RkD41oKBnuZGi_EuaE8Fzb6ERINY_O0hJcCSM1XafiGgIvANi7NvM-d0TBoSonN2Ij/s1600/applepieapple2.png" /></a></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">my </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>bapple.</i></span><br />
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</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9DdON0t0SsJ5QKWYxtYpSuQ7-8S3rs_reICqm6sGVywAd_qHdyvF-mygKqf69VAiP5DMxVA2pfN_CdGgd9GPf5NvuHmkKJ90__mw6c6ChRF5W8IyV3qteWSR479wrx5xjzrVLl5zwqdXt/s1600/apple_rows.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9DdON0t0SsJ5QKWYxtYpSuQ7-8S3rs_reICqm6sGVywAd_qHdyvF-mygKqf69VAiP5DMxVA2pfN_CdGgd9GPf5NvuHmkKJ90__mw6c6ChRF5W8IyV3qteWSR479wrx5xjzrVLl5zwqdXt/s400/apple_rows.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">oh golly!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">you do not know the real meaning of sweet until you've tried Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory's "Apple Pie" apple.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">"Bapple" became Parker's pet name for my sugary sweet treat the night he discovered just how much I hate to share.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">(hence the minion movie)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I tried and tried to convince him to buy his own.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">He insisted he didn't need a whole apple,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">that he'd be happy with a bite of mine.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I feigned sympathy.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">"oh honey! you've been working nonstop all week. you deserve this!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">we've been so good with saving too</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">!"</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">no go.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">so i tried sarcasm.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">"okay. i suppose you can play martyr tonight. i'll "take one for the team" tomorrow and skip my shower so we can afford to pay for yours k?"</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">no go again.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">and now he's borderline bugged.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">And so I confess,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">"I'm sorry sweetie. I just...it just...it's MY apple.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I just love it so much.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">And, well...I love you too.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">and if I have to share I will.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">but, um, if you got your own..."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">"You don't have to share with me Chels,"</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">he laughs</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">"Go get your bapple."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">*to my credit, I did share.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">but only a little...</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">:)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>anyway...</i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">now that i've dedicated 90% of my post to exploring that obsession</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I made my way home the weekend before last for an itty bitty spring break.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">With Parker's last minute plans to head south to St. George for a brother's biking trip and a free flight in reserve I figured</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">what the heck!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">i'm taking a trip to the 775.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">so I hopped on the phone with rapid rewards and,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">a quick 90 minutes later</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">(85 of which I spent on hold)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">i had a Friday night flight</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">woohoo!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I'd been missing home quite a bit lately.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">We crammed so much fun and so many visits into our Christmas trip that I'd forgotten what felt like to just be </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;">home</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">to sleep in my own bed,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">well...the guest bed.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Haley'd laid claim to my room by my second year of college</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">which is A-okay.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">i only ever used my room as a closet anyway.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">a BIG closet.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">(which I'm convinced gave me my unrealistic expectations about how much storage space one should have/require).</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">for some reason i always preferred sleeping on the couch.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">or the bonus room bed.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">i guess you could say i was a bit of a bed nomad.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">special thanks to Parker and our little apartment for helping me change my ways.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">(please reread the last big print line before my babbling tangent.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">if you proceed without doing so this list will no longer make sense).</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">spend time with my family,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">and reacquaint myself with the simple life of Sparks</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">or should I say acquaint myself?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">i've never </span><i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">not</span></b></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;"> been busy in that city.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">so yes!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I couldn't wait to be home.</span><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizP70GUk0N19RdR_3W8jjQqyEXuhG2j1WmpQawkqxg1DUA-ebx_20aDQXia2xeU0u_c1k1TOyWZLvoCnSiojoDgD_CJ7qTwVFrBdAuHGQpWJCwC8i9L2y92TOerT8pnv2CnL6UKYVqFfXP/s1600/southwest-airlines.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizP70GUk0N19RdR_3W8jjQqyEXuhG2j1WmpQawkqxg1DUA-ebx_20aDQXia2xeU0u_c1k1TOyWZLvoCnSiojoDgD_CJ7qTwVFrBdAuHGQpWJCwC8i9L2y92TOerT8pnv2CnL6UKYVqFfXP/s400/southwest-airlines.jpg" width="275" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">My flight left Salt Lake at 5:10 Friday afternoon,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">touching ground in Reno by 5:40.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I love, love, love skipping back to Pacific Standard Time!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I wish I could have an extra hour every day.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">and i think i lied about those flight times.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">we waited to board for over an hour.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">oh well.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">you get the point.</span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEin2RqlAwkowbH7azIo0lcFxdC0pb-zskG5s01TjYZJJMOZr3bhPxMifOCseMw5Vkpq2Zq_rWSQDrrG1t8kQIUDA2_mpzV40XW081ISOw8Z7vcFB5J2ilDKhW0QgtkXkQY1vPWUpVG4Vn1V/s1600/medium_041108rocky2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEin2RqlAwkowbH7azIo0lcFxdC0pb-zskG5s01TjYZJJMOZr3bhPxMifOCseMw5Vkpq2Zq_rWSQDrrG1t8kQIUDA2_mpzV40XW081ISOw8Z7vcFB5J2ilDKhW0QgtkXkQY1vPWUpVG4Vn1V/s400/medium_041108rocky2.jpg" width="255" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I bought a bapple at the airport,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">of course.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Did you know there's a Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory there?!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">it's just past security</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"> </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">i tried so hard to resist.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">ok, that's a lie too.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">i googled all the stores in the valley once.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">so i knew.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">and i planned on it.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">i'm not proud of it...</span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAzleYobf7mHICZYIVsejhBigALlRgF7luNAzq_ytHvd55TZkscyG0mfdsFh-Q2Qk3uwGppDihRc2z4Iwu8ZOhyphenhyphenxIyJyXftjtzQ9W51TGFZwqN3LOiRa2QWOgEvzEAY0X7ZB_yyt0Nw_9f/s1600/Quirk01.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="296" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAzleYobf7mHICZYIVsejhBigALlRgF7luNAzq_ytHvd55TZkscyG0mfdsFh-Q2Qk3uwGppDihRc2z4Iwu8ZOhyphenhyphenxIyJyXftjtzQ9W51TGFZwqN3LOiRa2QWOgEvzEAY0X7ZB_yyt0Nw_9f/s400/Quirk01.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">read a thought-provoking Spirit magazine article on brains,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">post on that to come...</span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEik2rAIAw6AOY6XgsgyqNhgsqOJF9YQEKdND9vh5-iCJHqm2BoHGh1FGeHSKtrMxSn-U9l55XM-sICSTFnF0_HmZoklMjxbHsg6veBvJmsEQmElWmVkMoGu3a1keQ4g5i3pwSwCcdvPumIm/s1600/26564_1397868791449_1374126078_1057602_624005_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEik2rAIAw6AOY6XgsgyqNhgsqOJF9YQEKdND9vh5-iCJHqm2BoHGh1FGeHSKtrMxSn-U9l55XM-sICSTFnF0_HmZoklMjxbHsg6veBvJmsEQmElWmVkMoGu3a1keQ4g5i3pwSwCcdvPumIm/s400/26564_1397868791449_1374126078_1057602_624005_n.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">dozed off just long enough to miss out on my free in-flight beverage,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">i've decided the cran-apple juice on planes is just magical.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">it tastes so much better 30,000 feet in the air</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">prayed I'd find my luggage on the carousel,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">do you ever worry it's going to disappear?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">lost luggage scares me.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">then made my way out to meet the fam.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">let the fun begin!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">our <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">adventures?</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">and intended lack there-of</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">(remember I wanted some real R&R)</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">and an embarrassing run-in @ the Nugget.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">have you ever forgotten someone you should absolutely know</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">and tried to fake your way through the conversation,</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">only to realize afterward how absolutely unconvincing all of your comments must have been?</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">makes you feel like a pretty terrible person no?</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">i'm still feeling it...</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">am-A-zing movie!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><i>sleeping in</i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">i won't say 'til when.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">just know it was glorious.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">i've never laughed so hard during an ab work-out.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">mom + chelsey + haley + stability balls = </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">chaos & hilarity</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><b>shopping</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">it wouldn't be home without it :)</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">& lunch salads the size of serving bowls.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">i wanted to pop.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">to talk wedding plans with the Proulxs.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">i just love that family.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">and their latest addition too :)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><b>pictures with Molly</b></i></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">i don't care how cute she is.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">i fed her a whole roll of saltine crackers,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">watched my jeans be slathered in slobber,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">endured all sorts of heavy, stinky breathing in my face,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">and still ended up with this</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"> </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">(50+ takes later).</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">The world will never know just how cute you are Miss Molly.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">we tried.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">(is this somewhat similar to taking pictures with little ones?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">my guess is yes.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">but that's just a guess.)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Sunday meetings in my home ward</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">it's changed quite a bit in the last few years.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">even the name's changed!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">*wingfield hills...psh*</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">but there's still more than enough 8th Ward veterans to make it feel like home,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">and that's why i love going back.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I love my ward family.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I adore the people there.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">They taught me what it means to live and love the Gospel</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">and made and still make me feel like I can be anything and do everything,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">and I can't tell you how much that means to me.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>Sunday dinner</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">i cooked.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">it actually turned out.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">so well,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">in fact,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">that my dad thinks it's a miracle meal.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">he's convinced it's the reason he dropped 2 lbs in 2 days</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">talk about a weight loss tool!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">i'm thinking i should sell it :)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><i><b>YW's meetings</b></i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">what would a weekend with my mom be without a meeting? :)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">i tagged along just for kicks</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">(and to see a few more of my favorite people).</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">blew my mind to see girls I led in leadership roles.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">they're so grown up!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">kind of crazy.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">dad being the timer Nazi.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">mom yelling at the timer</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">(and dad</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">).</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Haley cool as a cucumber.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">and me just a little bored</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">but a giggling mess all the same.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">why is my family so funny?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">i just love them.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">and games with them.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">oh so funny!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">just blissful!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">unusual chopstick methods</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">(a chopstick is not a fork</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">nor should it be used like one)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">+</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">crystal shrimp </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">(mmm!!!!)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">+</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">watching mom choke down a roll that</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">"tastes like slugs"</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">=</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">my best Sparks sushi experience ever.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">(I can't relive the slugs moment without laughing,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">"Nobody told me?!"</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">"Well, we needed <i>someone</i> to try it...</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">").</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">We owe you Mom :)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>family time</i></b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">This was by far my favorite part of the trip.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I love my family so much.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I never believed it growing up,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">but it's absolutely clear to me now that they all are </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">-and always will be- </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">my very best friends.</span><br />
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Mom & Dad-</span></span></div><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><i>I love you</i>. </span></span></div><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I wonder every day how it is that I was blessed to come into your home.</span></span></div><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">There's no place that makes me happier.</span></span></div><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">No two people who make me smile more.</span></span></div><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I love that our family loves to laugh;</span></span></div><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">that you taught us that.</span></span></div><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I learned from you too what it means to work</span></span></div><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">and take pride in that work too.</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">You helped me develop ambition and drive</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">and always, always believed in me.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">You've been my best cheerleaders</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">and biggest support.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;"></span></span></div><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I know the sacrifices you made you give me everything;</span></span></span></div><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I so hope you know what that means to me.</span></span></span></div><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I learned how to love others and make friends</span></div><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">and learned that blessing the lives of others through service is the best way to be a friend. </span></span></div><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I've been the beneficiary of your generosity for far too many years</span></span></div><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">and was again this weekend.</span></span></div><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">And though I know you don't expect a thing in return, </span></div><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I wonder each and every day what I could possibly do to give back even the tiniest bit of what you've given me.</span></span></div><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I've not the slightest clue what to do just yet,</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">so for now just know how that </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I love you</span></div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">so. much.</span></span></div></div><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">and I always, always will.</span></span></div></div><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><br />
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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRXVlWKtrRjdLxLrrUFLjtFQhj6gGDnLvty1Zb6dk7tV7lLLJlAnXiTqlWaP4OZVp_CHqQ6UndylWPCv7VE2UKRlk4uC_8WcFBu9G9h1f00AxVJhZaZmWl4J5saGUI32JeIVl1p0LEJBKI/s400/IMG_1439.JPG" width="400" /></a></div></div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">And Haley-</span></span></div><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><i>I love you too!</i> </span></span></div><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I grew up thinking we were both so different. </span></span></div><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">We're not. </span></span></div><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Not at all. </span></span></div><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">And it's so fun for me to see just how much we are the same.</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">From our thoughts, ideas, and opinions</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">to our super silly mannerisms, crazy eyes, and dumb jokes,</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">we're like two tubby little peas in a pod.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I'm so happy we're friends!</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">so glad we can chat.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">so lucky to have someone to laugh at mom & dad with.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">and so blessed to have such an amazing example in my life</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">(especially in a </span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">younger</span> </b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">sibling.</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">isn't is supposed to be the other way?)</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I am so excited about all the fun you're going to have in these next few years.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I wish you lived closer : /</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Come visit soon okay?</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Love you Miss Hay!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">And Molly & Paws...</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I absolutely love you too!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">(if you could read I'd expound on that.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">i'm sure you understand.)</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I loved every minute of my trip home.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Funny how a city can have such a special place in your heart.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">No matter how many years I spend away,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I think I'll always call this place home.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I realized this the night we went to the Sparks Century 14 theaters.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I made a life for myself in Provo when I came to college.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I'm making my married life here in Salt Lake.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">We'll make a life for ourselves in a new city for dental school.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">And we'll raise our family in a new town too.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">And I know, from past and present experience,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">that we'll spend many nights out at the movies.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">But I believe,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">-no-</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I'm convinced,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">that I'll never find another </span><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">hometown</span></i></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> theater.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"> if that makes sense...</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">anyway...</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Monday night came.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I said goodbye to Sparks.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">and</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>4 calls to rapid rewards</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>3 flight changes</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>2 planes</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">and </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>a 5 hour delay later</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I made it home sweet home to Salt Lake City,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">my adorable husband,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">and the most exciting </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><i>surprise</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><i>stay tuned...</i></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">*Thanks again family for everything! </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I miss it all already.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Love you so much!*</span></div>Parker & Chelsey DeMillehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04753140257112122115noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2969888342910468392.post-57990599920369859762011-03-29T02:25:00.000-07:002011-03-29T22:32:46.502-07:00good news minute<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">so I think we should start by breathing a big sigh of relief that I am officially done with my psycho-babble blogging and back to keeping it light.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">oh happy day!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I'll start off by saying that my title's a bit misleading.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;">We</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> have no big news</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">but some of my </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;">very</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> favorite people do!!!</span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKyBo80uoCqnNi7n1Wh5G_2F3bY6_lQgEAs-6vW98Gp8AnSbw__mqm1DOkY90iFkZmoKFdlKtjNduvu2RgM6u8NdyZt7tzxaR2nJaIxvOPNFab-a3irccLb50iGUjYvuk4MC8fqjKlvTDW/s1600/EditsWedding-314.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKyBo80uoCqnNi7n1Wh5G_2F3bY6_lQgEAs-6vW98Gp8AnSbw__mqm1DOkY90iFkZmoKFdlKtjNduvu2RgM6u8NdyZt7tzxaR2nJaIxvOPNFab-a3irccLb50iGUjYvuk4MC8fqjKlvTDW/s400/EditsWedding-314.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">so please indulge me in this good news minute.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I needed an outlet to celebrate.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I am so, so, so excited!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Mrs. Kayla Chandler kicked off the good news express with this little peanut...</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4eFLEMs5I_-ydDcZY69xkIhGJklwHoKWOSh-XmNbWvlxkQxR4dv61Bb6m3D3Jnv3dPUYmJ3gHnC73T_e_BG8gVO6hTFXTF5-eWzhnZ0ed1ZsbHPJHisYrsrfS_RaiCFf2aFVCmr8CyeG0/s1600/img001.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="297" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4eFLEMs5I_-ydDcZY69xkIhGJklwHoKWOSh-XmNbWvlxkQxR4dv61Bb6m3D3Jnv3dPUYmJ3gHnC73T_e_BG8gVO6hTFXTF5-eWzhnZ0ed1ZsbHPJHisYrsrfS_RaiCFf2aFVCmr8CyeG0/s400/img001.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">baby Chandler</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">at 8 weeks & 2 days</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">due</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: xx-small;"><i><b>September 2011</b></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">It absolutely floors my that one of my very best friends is going to have a baby!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">either because I am so absolutely unprepared for that stage of life or because it feels like just yesterday that we were Lady Raiders playing our way to the 2007 state title.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I have no question in my mind that she will be </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large; font-weight: bold;">the </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">best mom.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">truly...</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Kayla is one of the most genuinely sweet and sincere people I've ever met</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">and I'm certain Heavenly Father only let me have her as a friend so that I could learn from her example</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">which is why I'll be paying close attention to what I know will be perfect parenting.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I'm convinced her little one will be one of the cutest and best dispositioned babies who's ever bounced on down to this earth</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">and am preparing now to have absolutely unrealistic expectations of what to expect when we bring home our first little bundle of joy.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I'm just so excited to meet you baby Chandler!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">hurry here...but not too quick!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Congrats Michael and Kayla on your growing family!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">We love all </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;"><b>3</b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"> of you.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Our next sweet surprise came when Parker's younger sister Kaitlin received a letter from the First Presidency calling her to the </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Did I marry into the most amazing family or what?!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">and I know she is going to be an </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>incredible</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> missionary.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">We are all so proud of her for her willingness to serve the Lord and I am convinced her constant efforts to try and find the best in people, kindness, and ability to understand and relate with others will be the first of many reasons the people there will come to love her just as much as we do.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Hermana DeMille will be speaking espa<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 30px;">ñ</span>ol as she shares the Gospel with the Chilean people in one of their most beautiful cities</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">according to Wikipedia its iridescent-white sandy beaches, sunny climate, and grandiose resorts make it the nation's vacation capital.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I did just learn from Kaitlin, however, that her mission extends down into the Atacama Desert, one of the driest deserts in the world.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I'll be sending loads of Secret Wonderland lotion your way Kaits, promise!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">We trekked down to Richfield this last weekend to hear her farewell talk.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The bishopric assigned her the topic of "Following Christ," and I honestly can't even begin to tell you how much I appreciated her insights.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">just exactly what I needed to hear.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">We'll miss her so much these next 18 months,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">but I suppose we can lend her back to the Lord for this little window of time</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">but only because He's let us keep her the last 22 years. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">:)</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Counting down the days 'til </span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">April 6th</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">We love you Kaits!</span><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbUL6s8GLK3JuNG3QyiGZ1ZeOA6uRwRCtHDBJzA0cwEEM5BEaRyM1W76ZHqt_q9xm7aM3lC8N6vp28O6AZvyvARW4q3gXYc6CJbS_O1pqqkNeqoZM-WC_wPIpYWOjp7oMUCY-_WNh04wAd/s1600/35056_404608941965_566581965_4526721_3490482_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbUL6s8GLK3JuNG3QyiGZ1ZeOA6uRwRCtHDBJzA0cwEEM5BEaRyM1W76ZHqt_q9xm7aM3lC8N6vp28O6AZvyvARW4q3gXYc6CJbS_O1pqqkNeqoZM-WC_wPIpYWOjp7oMUCY-_WNh04wAd/s400/35056_404608941965_566581965_4526721_3490482_n.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">From the moment I knew I'd fallen in love with Parker, </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I wanted,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>more than anything,</i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">for my best friends to find love too.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">and I insisted they find it </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">right. that. instant.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The main reason I hoped and prayed they'd soon be living out their love story is because I wanted them to be happy, </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">of course.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">And then there were the little reasons...</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">the more selfish reasons...</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">that centered around my unwillingness to allow anything in our relationship to change</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">because, up until that point, we'd always been on exactly the same page.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I wanted </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;">married</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> friends I could talk to about </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;">married</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> things and plan </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;">married</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> vacations with,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">and I wanted them </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;">asap</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">! </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I'm amazed their eyeballs aren't forever fixated on the back of their brains from their constant</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> dismissals of my musings that, </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">before they knew it, </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">they'd be </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><b>loving</b></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> married life too.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The eye rolls, the laughs, the exasperated sighs</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I know you both wish you could take it all back...</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Jill blushed when she caught the bouquet</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">and Nicole nearly fainted when I suggested she be a bit more forward if she wanted to catch the attention of her summer crush.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">I can't remember if you ever thanked me for that little hint.</span> </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">Not to worry!</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">I'll just put it on my friend tab.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">You can name a kid after me or something.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">But, somehow,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">months before my first anniversary,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">both these girls have <s>diamonds</s> fiancées who've replaced me as their bestest friend.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">which I think I may actually be okay with.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">eeeeeeee!!!!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">(this is what it sounds like in my head any time I think about Jilly getting MARRIED)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">oh so exciting!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I am so happy to announce that</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>Jillian Rose Proulx</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> is engaged to marry </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Aaron Michael Prado</span></i><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">this </span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">August 5, 2011</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">in the Reno, Nevada Temple.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">hooray for hometown weddings!</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I love seeing my Jilly Bean so incredibly happy and I am so excited to have Aaron sealed into our little friend circle forever.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">Yes, I am convinced that the girls and I are as close as you come to being family without actually being family.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;"></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">And yes, I do believe we'll be together forever.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I really do.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I'm so excited to see all her wedding plans come together because,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">in case you can't tell from the pictures,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">these two might possibly be the classiest looking couple you'll ever see</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">which naturally makes for a beautiful wedding!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I'm so looking forward to your big day</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">and the moment you'll both say yes to forever.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Love you two!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>Nicole & Kip</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> will tie the knot </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"></span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">July 1, 2011</span></b><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">in the Salt Lake City Temple!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">eeeeeeee!!!!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">(this is the sound in my head any time I think about Nicole becoming </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: xx-small;"><i><b>MRS. Kip Stomberg</b></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">it makes me so, so happy!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Kip pulled out all the stops</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">and a marquis diamond!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">when he asked Nicole to be his forever.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">A candle-lit walkway to a blanket of daisies overlooking the valley,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">followed by his rendition of her all-time favorite love song at an adorable little table-for-two.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I think you really made her "feel your love" with that incredibly sweet serenade Kipper.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">SO romantic!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I love that Kip is one of those people who makes you feel like you've always been best friends forever from the first moment you meet him.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I'm so happy Nicole found him and I just love seeing how much he absolutely adores her.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">They are the cutest couple and the biggest cuddle-bugs you'll ever meet.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Don't be embarrassed Colie. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I think it's super sweeet.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">And you deserve every bit of this happiness!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I am absolutely ecstatic I get to be a part of your big day</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">and cannot wait for you two to promise forever!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Love you both</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">And hooray for married friends!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Fish, fish I got my wish!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I always do...</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Smack dab between these engagements Miss Tiffany received her own letter from the First Presidency announcing her call to serve in the </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>Paraguay Asunci</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 32px; line-height: 38px;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;">ó</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large; line-height: normal;"><i>n North Mission.</i></span></i></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Hermana deVries's first time outside the country will take her all the way down to South America for </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;"><b>15</b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> months!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I'm excluding the first 3 spent in the MTC where she'll be learning how to speak-o the Spanish.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I'm so impressed with Tiffany and her prayerfulness in coming to the decision to serve a mission. It'll be hard for our little scholar to spend that time away from school, but I'm convinced that her break from chemistry and physiology and microbiology and every other -ology will be to her benefit</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I can almost picture her brain jumping for joy at the thought of its upcoming 18-month break from science.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">hooray for new study material!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I know Tiff's infectious laugh and exuberant personality will make her an absolute hit with the Paraguayan people. But as much as her smile can light up a room, I'm convinced it'll be the power of her testimony that changes the lives of the people there. She's one of the strongest saints I know. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I can't wait to see all that Heavenly Father has in store for her.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Counting down the days 'til </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><b>July 27th</b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> Miss Tiff!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">We love you!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I wish I could add my getting more than 4 hours sleep to the good news minute, but it really doesn't look like that's happening tonight.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">*sigh*</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Nonetheless, I am ecstatic for all the months ahead.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">the </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>wedding planning</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;">letter writing</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">baby shower hosting</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">and all the smiles & happiness each one of these BIG life moments is certain to bring.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">which, in my case, includes quite a few happy tears too.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I take after the rain-bird...</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">Congratulations girls!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">here's to staying friends through every stage of life...</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">love you all!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div>Parker & Chelsey DeMillehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04753140257112122115noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2969888342910468392.post-25686400119867776652011-03-28T22:12:00.000-07:002011-04-01T00:01:36.296-07:00defining times<div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaNJe4ciknGwlTh_9C85IiwpUmHuX2BzU-kx7dviASVW_oWmDgeem1zHQ6YloyO7rIICyYXG6pHrASsm9EMBPf7Igo3K8NZbVTEDFlqnAqV3Lc0fAgAIzMYK0ggpxuEBKfFngSGLzgE6xs/s1600/YouCanDoIt.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaNJe4ciknGwlTh_9C85IiwpUmHuX2BzU-kx7dviASVW_oWmDgeem1zHQ6YloyO7rIICyYXG6pHrASsm9EMBPf7Igo3K8NZbVTEDFlqnAqV3Lc0fAgAIzMYK0ggpxuEBKfFngSGLzgE6xs/s400/YouCanDoIt.jpg" width="328" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i>"I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. </i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i>The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want."</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">-Mark Twain</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">What do I want?</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I'm nearly certain the answer to that question changes every day.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">And as </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">someone who's only ever seen their world in black & white,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">you can imagine why I'm puzzled by the brilliance of a little rainbow on my horizon.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>can't you? </i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Let me explain...</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">my black & white world was the world where I <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">always</span> knew the outcome.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">It was the world where every Point A had a Point B,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">where 1 & 2 always made 3,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">where I had plan for every single thing.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">Most people in this world knew me as </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><i>Chelsey Brianne White</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">communications major</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">broadcast journalism bound</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">.</span><br />
<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">stellar student</span></i><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">aspiring reporter</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><i>social butterfly</i></span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>driven by ambition and dead set on tackling any and every opportunity...</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: xx-small;">be it study abroad, NY internships, spontaneous weekend getaways, season passes for snowboarding, speeding to SLC to score last minute tickets to Conference, camping out like a true blue Cougar for tickets to the big game, playing the role of mastermind behind hilarious pranks and harmless acts of vandalism, 80's dancing downtown, midnight hiking, movie-going, soccer playing, awe-inspiring parallel parking, power tumbling, party planning, you name it!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">I had <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">BIG</span> plans,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">all the time,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">and felt confident in just how well I had my future all spelled out.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">Because be it a career path, college major map, application process, or social circle, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">I knew just what route I needed to navigate to make it all happen.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';"><br />
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">Welcome to my black & white world</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">where life seemed so...</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">simple</span>.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">But on March 27, 2009, </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">I met a boy</span>.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">A boy who helped me </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">discover the </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">complexity</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';"> of color.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">He came in the midst of a stormy season,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">and found me feeling just a little lost. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">I'd tried to take on too much</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">and worked myself silly trying to navigate the whole alphabet.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: xx-small;">Wise people move from Point A to Point B.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: xx-small;">I tried to find my way from Point A to Point Z, </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: xx-small;">making certain I hit every letter in between.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: xx-small;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">He proved to be a much-needed distraction.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">so much so that </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">the forecast predicting a semester's worth of</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;"> </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;">spring showers</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">now indicated a perpetually </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><b>sunny</b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';"> disposition with the possibility </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">of the </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>sweetest</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';"> summer romance.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">And what do you know?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">The weather-girl got it right!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: xx-small;">woo-hoo!!!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">And as that summer romance transcended the seasons,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">and its brightly beaming sun broke through every cloud of grey,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">(you can read all about those little clouds of hesitation <a href="http://parker-and-chelsey.blogspot.com/2010/10/reminders.html">here</a>)</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">I realized I wouldn't be weathering any of life's storms alone ever again.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">And that's when I spotted it.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">Life's little <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">r</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;">a</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ffd966;">i</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #6aa84f;">n</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6;">b</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7;">o</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: purple;">w</span></span>.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">Ready and waiting for me to incorporate its vivid and vibrant colors into my simple black & white world.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">With Parker in my life, I soon realized all I really </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">knew</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';"> anymore was that I needed to be with him</span><i style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">...</i><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';"><i></i>that the path that led to a</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';"> future with him was the only one that <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">guaranteed</span> me lasting happiness.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">That was the only clear and concise answer reminiscent of those from my black & white world.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">And I know now just as well as I did then </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">that it was the only one that mattered.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">But even still.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">That was the <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">only</span> clear and concise answer I had.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">Because in that same moment,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">all I'd previously considered essential to achieving success </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">didn't really apply anymore.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">Outside of being a wife,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">my near future seemed absolutely unclear.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">And no matter how incredibly happy I am at this moment,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">no matter much I love my husband, my marriage, and the life I feel so lucky to be living with him,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">I can't pretend for a second that leaving my black & white world hasn't been an adjustment.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">A BIG adjustment.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">In my new rainbow world, I can play with any color I please.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';"> I can paint my future <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;">red</span>, <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;">orange</span>, <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ffd966;">yellow</span>, <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6aa84f;">green</span>, <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6;">blue</span>, <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7;">indigo</span>, <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: purple;">violet</span>, and every color in between.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">I have options...and if you want my honest opinion, I think I have too many.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">On any given day I'm convinced I can be one of the following:</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';"> the admirably ambitious grad student</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e69138; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">the insightful and inquisitive LSAT prep pupil</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f1c232;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">the communications professional </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">with all the promise of a great career</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6aa84f;">the Wells Fargo golden child racing up the ranks</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6;">the fun-loving fitness instructor with a rockin' bod</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7;">the spiritual giant who's dedicated her life to service and knows the scriptures inside and out</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: purple;">the peerless wife with flawless fashion, incomparable culinary skill, and the intuition and skill of this generation's best writers, artists, and interior designers.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">I think that's all 7.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">red</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e69138; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">orange</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ffd966; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">yellow</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">green</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">blue</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">indigo</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">& </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: purple;">violet</span>.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">I can paint my world whatever color I'd like.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">But these days, I can't seemed to decide what color <i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">me</span></i> is best for <i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">us</span>.</i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">And so I settle.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">And in doing so resign myself to living life in a stagnant state so far below my full potential.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';"><i><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">People here know me as </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><i>Mrs. Parker DeMille</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">the girl on the arm of the bright-eyed, blonde, dental school hopeful.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">the blissfully happy newlywed learning how to play wife.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">the all-too-open chatterbox who's about as sharp as a butter knife.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';"> </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">and that's about it.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">This</span></i> is a problem.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">I'm no longer the girl Parker</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> <i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>chose</b></span></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">to marry.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">I'm just the girl </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">existing</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';"> by his side.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: xx-small;">As the go-getter he fell in love with begins living life by the mantra "jist get 'er done."</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: xx-small;">Now please understand,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">I am absolutely proud and honored that Parker picked me to be his bride.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: xx-small;">That is not the problem now and it never, ever, will be.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">Marriage is wonderful and I am <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">convinced</span> that</span><br />
<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">because</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';"> I'm a wife</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">I can do </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">anything</span></b> and <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><b>everything</b> </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: x-large;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">and </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>so much more</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';"> </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">than I'd ever dreamed of doing in my black & white life</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">and have exponentially more fun doing it!</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';"> </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: xx-small;">:)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: xx-small;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">so no.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">the wifing's not the problem.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">What <i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">is</span></i> a problem though </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">is how little I've done to define myself as a new wife.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">That, to me, is just plain sad.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: xx-small;">and absolutely unfair to me and to Parker.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: xx-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;"></span></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: xx-small;"><br />
</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">As December came to a close, I came to the realization that I no longer had the crutch of the Cougar image.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">I couldn't define myself as a college student any longer.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">But instead of kicking it into high gear and having the courage to </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>take a risk</b></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>work toward</b></span></i> one of the above options,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">and then </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><b>brave</b></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';"> the uncertainty of where that path might lead,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">I played it safe</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">And now I am a 21-year-old with all the regrets of a lonely baby-boomer living off social security.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>but</i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: xx-small;">hooray for buts!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">I am lucky enough that I've only lived 3 months of my life this way</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">and that I have</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: xx-small;">give or take</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">another 3900 months to fix it.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">As much as I'd love to perfectly be all of the above, I know all too well that I won't be.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: x-large;">And that's good for me.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">It was the fear of failing to attain perfection that kept me from even trying for it in the first place.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">so no. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">I'm not shooting for perfection in any particular color scheme anymore.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">my goal now is to be a <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;">r</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e69138;">a</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f1c232;">i</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6aa84f;">n</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6;">b</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7;">o</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: purple;">w</span></span>.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">to just be my best at a little bit of each.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">and ultimately paint the perfect me.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">my plan...</span><br />
<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">"do the best I can and be sure it is my very best."</span></i><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: xx-small;">wise words President Hinckley</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i> </i>be <i>"always improving."</i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: xx-small;">thank you President Kimball</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">and <i>"look beyond the daily routine of life to discover who I really am...discern through the Spirit my divinely given capacities...and prayerfully make worthy choices that will lead me to realize my full potential."</i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: xx-small;">well said Elder Scott.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: xx-small;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">I'm shooting for <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">"best all-around"</span> this time</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">because,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: xx-small;">as Elder Maxwell said,</span><br />
<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">“The Lord loves each of us too much to merely let us go on being what we now are, for He knows what we have the possibility to become!”</span></span></i><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Sans', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span></i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>Becoming brings happiness. </i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Sans', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">I truly believe that we owe it to ourselves to make an extra effort to discover, in every detail possible, who we really are and who we can become.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">And while I may not have the black & white world answer to exactly which color or combination of colors will help me paint the perfect me, I know someone who does, and I think it's time I asked Him.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">don't you think?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: xx-small;">********</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: xx-small;">And just so we're all clear, when the time's right, "being a mom" will be at the top of my list.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: xx-small;">Now's just not the time.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: xx-small;">For me at least.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: xx-small;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: xx-small;">And while we're on the subject,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: xx-small;">knowing that that's on the horizon</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: xx-small;">-even if it's a few years off-</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: xx-small;">is another BIG reason I think I hesitated in making any big post-grad plans.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: xx-small;">I couldn't articulate it any better than my broadcast buddy Karly.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: xx-small;">I loved her thoughts <a href="http://www.jamesandkarlybarker.com/2011/03/new-normal.html">here</a>.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: xx-small;">But mostly, I loved how perfectly she phrased the questions I run through every single time I try and make a decision about my future.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: xx-small;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: xx-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"></span></span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: xx-small;">"In my opinion our generation of women </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: xx-small;">will be the first to come out of college with the idea of </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: xx-small;">first- get a career</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: xx-small;">second- have a family.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: xx-small;">Even at one of the most conservative schools - </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: xx-small;">careers are pushed, </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: xx-small;">(at least in my field) </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: xx-small;">girls who are immediately starting into a career are praised,</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: xx-small;">and girls who are immediately starting families....</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: xx-small;">well...</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: xx-small;">good question.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: xx-small;"><b>I don't know one.</b></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: xx-small;">And if I am being completely honest my lack of job searching boils down to one question...</span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: xx-small;">Before I start a family do I need to work/have a career for my own happiness?</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: xx-small;">This question becomes complex...</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: xx-small;">and I can talk about it for hours.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: xx-small;">How long do you work?</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: xx-small;">And do you have a career or just work?</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: xx-small;">If you have a career is it even worth it to pay your dues when you are going to quit to have a family?</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: xx-small;">And if it isn't worth it than why even work in the first place?</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: xx-small;">It consumes my thoughts day in and day out.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: xx-small;">But it all boils down to the same question.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: xx-small;"><i>Everyone</i> has an opinion on this matter.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: xx-small;">And I am currently trying to find my own."</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: xx-small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: xx-small;">Thanks Karly for simply stating what I can't ever seem to articulate to anyone outside our broadcast realm.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: xx-small;">I hope I'm one of the first to know if and when you find the answer...</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: xx-small;">:)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: xx-small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: xx-small;">********</span></div></div>Parker & Chelsey DeMillehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04753140257112122115noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2969888342910468392.post-41275056000868033072011-03-15T00:11:00.000-07:002011-03-15T00:34:31.428-07:00vulnerable<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzG8yzWYkFRP6F4eST_nXLj9NmBWLYI1c-9LuG5ryARzX6K3D741q3_y7Vvqck1dvBOlk5qbLjQL0gFqQYhyWP8HugpWbXFpMpXOxl6iAl4wsBrJxOSKmf-VlXw2F3Y-KbdyxVar1fFaaV/s1600/Talk-too-much.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="310" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzG8yzWYkFRP6F4eST_nXLj9NmBWLYI1c-9LuG5ryARzX6K3D741q3_y7Vvqck1dvBOlk5qbLjQL0gFqQYhyWP8HugpWbXFpMpXOxl6iAl4wsBrJxOSKmf-VlXw2F3Y-KbdyxVar1fFaaV/s400/Talk-too-much.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><b>"I think I talk too much,"</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I confess to Parker as I plop my pinhead onto my pillow.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">crickets...</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"Do you think I talk too much?"</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"I think I'm sleepy..."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">and just before I start in on my petition that he take this seriously</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"...and no. You don't talk too much."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"</span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;">But</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">..."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"...but even if you did, I'd still love you."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I know </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large; font-style: italic;">but</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">..."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"...but what?"</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"</span><i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: xx-large;">But</i><i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">...</i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">nothing."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"That's what I thought. Goodnight my little chatterbox..."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"</span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Not</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> <i>funny</i>..."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">And after a </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;">but</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> or two or three more and a couple </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>I love you's</b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> we're fast asleep.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">I can't tell you how many times we've had this conversation.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">For someone who loves the social scene so, you'd think I'd thrive in social settings.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">And I do.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;">LOVE</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> it!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">But because I love it so, I always come away hoping the people I've spent time with came away seeing the night in just as positive a light as I did.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">And on those nights when I worry they may not be,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I start to feel very </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>vulnerable</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">and question my free-thinking and free-speaking open-book approach.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"></span></div><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Why do I always put myself so far out there so quickly,</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">especially when I'm so bent on being everyone's friend?</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">If you want to be universally liked, you need to play it right.</span></span></div><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">or do you?</span></span></div><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Can you REALLY ever be EVERYONE'S friend?</span></span></div><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">is it worth it?</span></span></div><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">or is a take-me-or-leave-me attitude the key to those REAL friendships that bring lasting happiness?</span></span></div><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I really don't know.</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><b>Do you have the answer?</b></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Maybe it's me.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">It's likely just me.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Though I hope not,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">because in confessing this I'm exposing myself to all the vulnerabilities of sharing in the cyber-realm as well.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I am certain our friends and family love us</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">and love spending time with us.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I never question that fact.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">But I just wonder, every now and again, if I make people </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;">uncomfortable</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> with how very quickly I become </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>comfortable</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> being 100% me when I'm with them.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>By my first 4th of July trip to Richfield I felt like part of the family.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I chattered away with the siblings like their favorite freshman roommate</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">and/or the energizer bunny on crack.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;"></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I chased all the kiddos around the backyard, tackled the task of double-duty swing pushing, cuddled Parker's sweet nieces for the entirety of the parade, and talked smack to the twins like their veteran babysitter</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">my tendency toward immaturity on full display.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I took the liberty of getting my own glass of water whenever I so pleased, never thinking once that it might be more appropriate to ask, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i>"Mr. & Mrs. DeMille, I hate to be a bother but may I please have a glass of water?"</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">either a testament to their impeccable hospitality and warm welcomes and/or my very obvious lack of guest etiquette.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">And very conspicuously expressed my affection for Parker</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">again, displaying my very apparent lack of future in-law etiquette.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">so so sorry Kristy & Tristan.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">If only your son weren't so dang cute!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>By my six month mark at work my whole branch knew at least a chapter or two of my very open book.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">so much for the perpetually professional, happy-go-lucky, highly ambitious, up-and-coming Communications exec image I'd banked on.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I'm too </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;">honest</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">too </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><i>silly</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">too </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>sarcastic</b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">to</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">o </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>sassy</b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">and, on rare occasions, just a little too </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;">sweet</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I've shared</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> my </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>strengths </b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">and </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">weaknesses</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">my </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><i>knowledge</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> and <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><b>ignorance</b></span>,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">my </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">opinions</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> and </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>indifference</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">and my real </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>hopes</b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> and </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i><b>fears</b></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">all. too. often.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I'm very much myself</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">and that very much worries me.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>By my 3-month mark in Young Women's my presidency could very clearly see what a </b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;">rookie</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">they'd drafted for their</span></b> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;">all-star team</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">My fall semester had me running every which way.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">It quickly became the </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;">Kryptonite</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> to my super-leader image.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I can't think of a time when I've felt more transparently human.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I ran into conflicts with activities & class and missed more presidency meetings than I care to count.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I scrambled to assemble lessons I'd spaced on one too many Sunday mornings.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">And exhibited less-than-stellar communication skills with the Mia Maid leaders from each of the other wards</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">talk about awesome first impressions.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I sliced the celery wrong for our first combined activity.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I don't think there's any coming back from that.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>And as far as censorship goes, let's not forget my antics in planning and participating in the many Friday & Saturday nights we've spent with our friends.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I say what I think without thinking.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I ask questions and tackle topics that'd make you blush.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I play the role of sass-master so incredibly well I wonder why no one's slapped me silly.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">And before the night's even done, I'm penciling myself in on everyone's calendar and sending out save-the-dates for the next big event.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>This list goes on and on.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Whether it's my taking the liberty of munching three pieces of toast at Lara's like a little puerco,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">in case it's not entirely clear, puerco is spanish for pig.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">oink! oink! </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">or my </span><s style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">running</s><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> sprinting with Ashlee's offer to be the big-sister-I-never-had nearly a year before she and Jason even said "</span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">I do</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">,"</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">or my laughable honeymoons-for-dummies chats with my very best of friends,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I think it's safe to say that talking too much is the<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;"> </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><b>least</b></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> of my worries.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">But no matter how many nights I come home and wonder how I might have better presented myself, my ideas, my thoughts, or my image,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I'm grateful that in being so open, I might just be someone people can </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>talk</b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> to, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">confide</span></i> in, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">laugh</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> with, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">laugh </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>at</i></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>open up</i></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> to, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">and be <i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">silly</span></i>, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b>candid</b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><i>honest</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">and ultimately </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><b>real</b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> with.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Anyone who really knows me knows I am so very far from perfect.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">And that's exactly how it should be.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">No fronts,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">no facades, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">no feigned happiness, forced conversation, or false pictures of propriety here</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>It's just me.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">And if you like </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;">me</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> for being </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;">me</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I'll bet I'll like </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;">you</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> for being </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;">you</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> too.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">and THOSE are the best kinds of friendships I could ever hope to find and keep.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">don't you think?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">:)</span><br />
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</span></div>Parker & Chelsey DeMillehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04753140257112122115noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2969888342910468392.post-1892251049663985632011-03-14T02:19:00.000-07:002011-03-14T02:21:31.760-07:00spring forward<div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpeRLiFKzBn2LM1ctO0iI0sVFNG0JJl6pywLHWG14Dku2IEB3y6kK1pwshosrWC0L2vIhqy9uygjmq7vkww5QHhKFYfp6rfzm4tbMYc51g_VizSuDrda_2WWrYO6TYIe4kGicpSwUtPBGV/s1600/wax.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="265" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpeRLiFKzBn2LM1ctO0iI0sVFNG0JJl6pywLHWG14Dku2IEB3y6kK1pwshosrWC0L2vIhqy9uygjmq7vkww5QHhKFYfp6rfzm4tbMYc51g_VizSuDrda_2WWrYO6TYIe4kGicpSwUtPBGV/s400/wax.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">is kind of like getting a <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Brazilian bikini wax.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The process is unsettling, uncomfortable, and at times just plain </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>awful.</i></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-align: center;"><br />
In theory, it’s supposed to be a bit more tolerable each time you do it.</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-align: center;">But the truth is, no matter how much time you have to mentally prepare for it</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-align: center;">the experience isn’t ever a welcome one.</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-align: center;">You wonder why on earth anyone would ever think to create such a thing.</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Can’t nature sort anything out on its own?</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-align: center;">Apparently not</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">or so we say/believe.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-align: center;">so we step in and make nature do what we think it should have done from the start.</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-align: center;">What is it about our human nature that makes us feel the need to control <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">everything?</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">That’s always intrigued me. </span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">Anyway…</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-align: center;">We go through all this not because we want to,</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-align: center;">not because it’s easy,</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-align: center;">not because it even makes sense,</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-align: center;">but because we know the end result is going to be so incredibly worth it.</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-align: center;">And it is.</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>It always is.</i></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-align: center;">I’ll just always hold out hope that we’ll find a way to forego the painful stages and skip on ahead to the splendid end.</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-align: center;">‘til then…I’ll just try to be a tough buck and brave through it,</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-align: center;">Remembering that it’ll all be worth it in the end.</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">so to sum up…</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>spring forward.</i></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-align: center;">I don’t like you much.</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-align: center;">I dread each time I’m reminded we’re due for a visit because,</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-align: center;">no matter how far I know in advance, </div><div align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-align: center;">I’m neither physically nor mentally prepared for your arrival.</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-align: center;">You think I’d work on getting more sleep early in the week.</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-align: center;">or going to bed earlier the night prior.</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-align: center;">You think I’d think twice before planning parties with start times so late into the night</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-align: center;">or just embrace the fact that I’m going to be a <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><i>zombie</i></span> for the next few days because of it.</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-align: center;">But I never do.</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-align: center;">And I doubt I ever will.</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Our twenty-first</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> encounter seemed just as painful as our first.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-align: center;">And I am willing to bet money our twenty-second will be much the same.</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">Who knew losing just an hour of sleep could make me feel so absolutely out-of-whack?</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-align: center;">but</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>but</i></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-align: center;">I will give you this.</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">When 7:00 </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>p.m.</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> came ‘round tonight</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-align: center;">and I roused from my post-spring forward slumber to the warm glow of an amber-hued room,</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-align: center;">the orange-red rays streaming through my bedroom window reminiscent of those of a summer sun at dusk.</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-align: center;">I felt <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">hopeful</span>.</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">and </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>happy</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">And just </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><b>this</b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> close to forgiving you fully for being the burdensome red-headed step-child of daylight savings.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">so yeah…</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-align: center;">now that that’s behind us,</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-align: center;">I’ll say what I really came to say.</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNFL_fhaiPr-xmoboiWYitXy394WhskTKAU1sgWHVpwm5Gph1m4sJh_Fc9r0LVvO6oF42lkv6j4g0nH0-oBi4C2UKHIeKLiwqswFbXc62MsG9JJjMHR4RzlEk3dtJw-KwZGBFBwOaAdaNa/s1600/springtime4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="298" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNFL_fhaiPr-xmoboiWYitXy394WhskTKAU1sgWHVpwm5Gph1m4sJh_Fc9r0LVvO6oF42lkv6j4g0nH0-oBi4C2UKHIeKLiwqswFbXc62MsG9JJjMHR4RzlEk3dtJw-KwZGBFBwOaAdaNa/s400/springtime4.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><i>Thanks for bringing spring.</i></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">I pray it’s here to stay.</span></div></div>Parker & Chelsey DeMillehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04753140257112122115noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2969888342910468392.post-32679976287642869972011-02-23T22:18:00.000-08:002011-02-23T22:50:48.864-08:00retraction<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">maybe clarifier's a better word for it.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">either way...</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I published my last post before I'd fully made my point</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">or acknowledged the fact that the virtual banker training I find so patronizing may or may not have left me feeling a bit jaded about the 9-5 life.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I'd normally just go flesh out the original and call it a day,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">but the trouble today is</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>I meant every word I said.</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I'm not the routine girl by any means.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">It's a challenge for me to feel satisfied just living the day-to-day,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">and a big adjustment learning how to be a new kind of busy.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><b>but</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">and this is a big but</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><b>do</b></span> love my life.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">every bit of it.</span><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXEe2fT6SpNECS2lRU9enaAhuIwJOP5hOgFvopX5P4pZ8BSFnnnwB_lD_8NKERV8_fwtws64CAEOgFsckwjK0slPUHYJhzT2XU7P1YtMvAeQvhdJiB9P286Uo8jL8LJPVY5yW1xkvP8ehm/s1600/spring-colors.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="261" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXEe2fT6SpNECS2lRU9enaAhuIwJOP5hOgFvopX5P4pZ8BSFnnnwB_lD_8NKERV8_fwtws64CAEOgFsckwjK0slPUHYJhzT2XU7P1YtMvAeQvhdJiB9P286Uo8jL8LJPVY5yW1xkvP8ehm/s400/spring-colors.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">makes you dizzy just looking at it huh?</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I just have an exceptionally severe case of </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>spring fever</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I'm ready for a vacation and a hefty dose of vitamin D.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">But seeing as all potential </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">cabin</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">, <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">biking</span></b>, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><i>hiking</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">sun-tanning</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">, and </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><b>tropic</b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> trips </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">are still a few weeks off,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I'll settle for some weekend fun.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Get ready, friends, to see <b style="font-size: xx-large;">way</b> too much of me</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">and love every single minute of it.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><i>hehehe...</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">With that said, here are </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;">10</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> random insights on my day-to-day:</span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgo_5WzJ3jKLdcrhVbzYG1V3C2bQ1BtbaxwjQWkepHIh6JBhMKhJW-QHkQf1b8Q6WPSX9OTG5RjRQEzebulU3Jn6cI4YtV5B0DoI9V59Jk3xS7-9dyp_esddJuQ02l2mUHGVR1qlw1A6mD7/s1600/Edamame_-_boild_green_soybeans.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgo_5WzJ3jKLdcrhVbzYG1V3C2bQ1BtbaxwjQWkepHIh6JBhMKhJW-QHkQf1b8Q6WPSX9OTG5RjRQEzebulU3Jn6cI4YtV5B0DoI9V59Jk3xS7-9dyp_esddJuQ02l2mUHGVR1qlw1A6mD7/s320/Edamame_-_boild_green_soybeans.jpg" width="320" /></a></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">1. Our latest and greatest house favorites are</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">edamame</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> & </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">nutella toast</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">oh so good!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6332NIki_Q6PaV_XF-ns1_6F1Rta056qOAQwKjkgESdE_8fy0E3F5X2-GYRB7lVbZRIA6B4p_Zo00EWaTzrelurSYXXfiicxJFDLdSv0HSEb4dX7R6UtvKXJfZkMGs3DCtc0704pwPoom/s1600/scan0027.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6332NIki_Q6PaV_XF-ns1_6F1Rta056qOAQwKjkgESdE_8fy0E3F5X2-GYRB7lVbZRIA6B4p_Zo00EWaTzrelurSYXXfiicxJFDLdSv0HSEb4dX7R6UtvKXJfZkMGs3DCtc0704pwPoom/s400/scan0027.jpg" width="400" /></a></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">2. The <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">coneheads</span> have reunited for one final season of soccer.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I forgot how much I love coeds.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">And playing with Tiff & Kayla</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">(and baby Chandler!)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">:)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Also, please note.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I will be scoring a shirt this season.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">There is no way I'm leaving one more championship game without one.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">no way.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">3. And while we're on the topic of my BYU days coming to a close, I have a secret.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I've had my diploma for close to 2 months now.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">It remains <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">unopened</span>.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">And I'm not sure why.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Maybe it's my unwillingness to face reality and accept that I've "graduated" from that chapter of my life.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Or maybe I'm not 100% sure where I put it.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Either way,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">it's still in the box!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">:)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">4. I am remembering just how happy I am when I have <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">endorphins</span>.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I've been a stranger at the gym the last season or two.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I'm lucky my body tolerated such sedentary behavior as well as it did</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">and I feel so lucky it's taken so well to this new workout regime.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I thought it'd rebel...fight back a bit maybe.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">And it did, at the start.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">But in recent weeks,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I feel like it just craves any and all things cardio.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">And that's been fun for me.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I feel like my old (and by old I mean young) self again...</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">well, until I see all the grandmas at Gold's with their rockin' bods.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Then I feel like a real tub</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">(because I know, at their age, I'll look more like a rollie pollie than one who's been flattened by a rolling pin).</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Gotta love the gym...</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">:)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">If I could paint you a better picture I would</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">(but if I paint as well as I draw...</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I went to the post office the other day to mail off my mom's birthday present when CRUNCH...</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I leveled a mini iceberg.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">It did not sink my wheeled Titanic,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">didn't damage it cosmetically either,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">so I assumed all was well.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">'Til I heard the scraping on the freeway.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I decided to try and make it home before taking a peek</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">but as I rounded the corner, CRUNCH!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">The plastic protector thing-a-ma-bob that lines my wheel well broke free.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I tracked it down as it made a run for it on Olympic Way and chucked it in my trunk.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Dumb ice.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Luckily I think it's just a few bolts short of a full recovery.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">And it's given me a good excuse to have a REAL mechanic check out my check engine light</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">(I learned the hard way that a Jiffy Lube diagnostic is both pointless and pricy.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Thank you oil men for charging me $20 just to reiterate to me that a check engine light means I should take my car to a REAL mechanic to, </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">wait for it... </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">check my engine!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">grease monkeys).</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">We'll be giving baby Honda a bit of TLC just as soon as the day-to-day dies down</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">(a.k.a. I have no idea when I'll be taking it in).</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">We'll make time.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Whether it's the cold weather, the holiday, the post-January slam slump, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">or perhaps something sinister (this I doubt),</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">we've had back-to-back SLOW weeks</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">which makes for very long days.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Fortunately, we have a fun team,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">which makes for creative in-between customer activities like:</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">banker scrabble,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">mini-football games,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">dodgeball,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">plastic-wrap PIG competitions,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">tutorials on how to accurately shoot rubberbands</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">(I am no good at this),</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">story swapping,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">and, on the slowest days, a bit of angry birds.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Oh and to answer your question,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">yes, we are a professional banking institution.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Moving on...</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">This has been the best part of our day-to-day by far.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I feel like I've spent so much of my life cramming my scripture study into my schedule.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I had too many semesters in college where I studied without purpose,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">let the school studies with REAL deadlines take precedence,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">and treated my religion classes as credit fillers.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I listened.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I learned.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">But I never really STUDIED,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">at least not the way I'd hoped to.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">But these days, religion is my one and only course</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">and I can study all I want!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I'm loving every aspect of this new set-up,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">like having the time to put events in historical context,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">cross reference,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">and think in terms of how it relates to my life and my day.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I'm seeing the bigger picture</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">and it is pretty fun!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">This is a definite perk of the 9-5 life.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">And one of the many reasons, again,</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">happy Wednesday <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">(again)</span>!!!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I really am looking forward to another day just like it.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">:)</span></div>Parker & Chelsey DeMillehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04753140257112122115noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2969888342910468392.post-44996658975382457472011-02-23T12:05:00.000-08:002011-02-23T16:19:45.348-08:00day to day<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzzWB60zeY9uPBl-AYh4htFusGXfeGaMkfblPA-_3PtWxl65a8czjw5aDlOLcC4wRrXXWnJeq_h0GBsau3XGsKETw3uHtSRr1NoJti3RdJ_OgY-3TNd6qONwBiMawhVJw4zyxk_RBRwkKY/s1600/snoozebutton.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="281" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzzWB60zeY9uPBl-AYh4htFusGXfeGaMkfblPA-_3PtWxl65a8czjw5aDlOLcC4wRrXXWnJeq_h0GBsau3XGsKETw3uHtSRr1NoJti3RdJ_OgY-3TNd6qONwBiMawhVJw4zyxk_RBRwkKY/s320/snoozebutton.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">my snooze button</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">:)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The alarm sounds</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">and I'm off and running</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">a.k.a. blindly feeling my way to the bathroom door as I fight the urge to ditch the cold morning and re-cocoon up in my comforter.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3EETMqu6WYf1MPvulXakvhS8PuKg6irGK5P6uOXqiyFCbDF8OGhdaU5oFmRjZcbFDrsyUfK0oMJiIc01HxPufzn5UMPDT6lm-XQWOzEzwjEQDsOEGypvuwIX8k4Cfm6Pxo3E0xob0cn0F/s1600/scrabble.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3EETMqu6WYf1MPvulXakvhS8PuKg6irGK5P6uOXqiyFCbDF8OGhdaU5oFmRjZcbFDrsyUfK0oMJiIc01HxPufzn5UMPDT6lm-XQWOzEzwjEQDsOEGypvuwIX8k4Cfm6Pxo3E0xob0cn0F/s320/scrabble.png" width="213" /></a></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I cruise home for lunch </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">squeeze in an episode of Hulu, contemplate napping, then skip the nap to start a crock-pot dinner, call and catch up with a friend or two, or dream up our latest YW's craft</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">then speed back to the bank to practice opening accounts, school the bankers in scrabble, and listen to at least 3 grumpy customers decry debit cards, interest rates, savings accounts, national holidays, the Civil War, and our "unwillingness" to sell stamps to women </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">"If I was a man you'd give it to me!" </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;"></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">You're right.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I'd give you directions to the post office, an apology, and a smile and call it a day because,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">last I checked,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">the federal government does not endorse Wells Fargo as a subsidiary of the U.S. Postal Service.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I'm just sayin'...</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">hehehe</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">By the time my feeble mind's ready to wave its white flag</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">and i have two hours + to go...</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I somehow find my way home and back into Parker's arms</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">and make many empty promises and threats to never EVER go back.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRpPPEkEPFleSxuh8efA10nSnTyMgLZlXRuOVhCmg1dHnWFoBD9b8AR9IGz5gR0fy17Wzt0vEdpEXZVFWDiqVQlqgyBn3KXJsyxqCe_3m9MqVtxzPG2gpCJVD5l94iFJB1GJaiDWvoPFmj/s1600/runningshoes.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRpPPEkEPFleSxuh8efA10nSnTyMgLZlXRuOVhCmg1dHnWFoBD9b8AR9IGz5gR0fy17Wzt0vEdpEXZVFWDiqVQlqgyBn3KXJsyxqCe_3m9MqVtxzPG2gpCJVD5l94iFJB1GJaiDWvoPFmj/s320/runningshoes.jpg" width="320" /></a></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I double-check our dinner menu to ensure I have everything I need to make it</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">all while resisting the urge to scarf down half our pantry</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">then lace up my tennies </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">mentally prepare for the pain I'll face via Insanity or Gold's</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">and sprint off to try and tack on 10+ years to my life.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0Q8P4uZlJy52vKQObu2ZOmw8vDvf62vClaxxsImCClVQd6EEWm4-Edato1iicGR1cCmaAQ4Y1PIDlIzUzdI6Y9tgw57Iqw5f5GdwnuAxbWtYZsgERn9ZXF-MJMHejnyo4t099vaHVJZxc/s1600/6a00d834515c6d69e200e54f4369c18833-640wi.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0Q8P4uZlJy52vKQObu2ZOmw8vDvf62vClaxxsImCClVQd6EEWm4-Edato1iicGR1cCmaAQ4Y1PIDlIzUzdI6Y9tgw57Iqw5f5GdwnuAxbWtYZsgERn9ZXF-MJMHejnyo4t099vaHVJZxc/s320/6a00d834515c6d69e200e54f4369c18833-640wi.jpg" width="250" /></a></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Parker and I sweat a few buckets worth before speeding home </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">to ensure I have enough time to shower, finish dinner, and shovel it in despite my now lacking appetite,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">so I can gather my MiaMaids and make it to YW's by 7:00 on the dot</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">or 7:05ish...</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">because it's me.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglvdcsSnTQebKQnAMjDkYcDchKL1rQI6ftb5lLHCoiO-xcFQsUgyAtt0gvw2xrb6lzf3ufeXOkgG5z6HAIDmzYZj7aE6wqkqpqZUfTObNW4_F6VKZ2ioZ4MdcVmX_JurkkVKdq0wYE3_aL/s1600/sportscenter_logo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="220" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglvdcsSnTQebKQnAMjDkYcDchKL1rQI6ftb5lLHCoiO-xcFQsUgyAtt0gvw2xrb6lzf3ufeXOkgG5z6HAIDmzYZj7aE6wqkqpqZUfTObNW4_F6VKZ2ioZ4MdcVmX_JurkkVKdq0wYE3_aL/s400/sportscenter_logo.jpg" width="400" /></a></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I chatter away the next two hours,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">giggling over boys as the good cop,</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">corralling my crazy teens for clean-up as the bad.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">And when we've finished with our impromptu post-activity presidency mini-meeting I make my way home and crash on the couch next to Parker.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">who has been catching up on <s>ESPN.com</s> studying like a little angel and missing me every minute in between.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYH4f9n5PsU65VOOQcsQMEgWsk1Eqf6bRmV1g5_VuSbMaXJ6BiInkBUZ235m_i2h4aeVDMJ5jC4nO17H343BfAuuo1iuQH3odOSi7m5XcW739AKShUf_Z0zjL2x0HyQlXUISQv9xrUdNue/s1600/Mental-Floss-T-Shirt-%25281126%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYH4f9n5PsU65VOOQcsQMEgWsk1Eqf6bRmV1g5_VuSbMaXJ6BiInkBUZ235m_i2h4aeVDMJ5jC4nO17H343BfAuuo1iuQH3odOSi7m5XcW739AKShUf_Z0zjL2x0HyQlXUISQv9xrUdNue/s1600/Mental-Floss-T-Shirt-%25281126%2529.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I muster up the courage to floss</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">every other night...I'm not as dedicated to the program as our dear Parker</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">then brush my teeth, wash my face, and add the finishing touch to my bedtime regime with a bit of Latisse</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">the bottle I bought for the wedding, never used, and am now trying to put to good use before it's expiration date.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">The results...</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">spectacular.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I'm in love with my spidery long lashes.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">My only concern...</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">how on earth I'll manage when that little bottle runs out.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">It makes me sad to think of every returning to the little stump lashes I once had.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">*sigh*</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">One of the many ways I'll learn the meaning of sacrifice in these early years of marriage...</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghTkPikZ4hyQjGWbO6fa-x59shMRbR6n8Zf2qXsphUt8Y4vOMLM9akSh5HgZNY2Z7bhtJ7k7ef6YHn-vvrsbdr56K9pJAgNOaH4VaV3G5QSt2vb1Pwwxj0Ta9sxoF0V0sBS9IADL0Aot0C/s1600/website+scriptures+004.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghTkPikZ4hyQjGWbO6fa-x59shMRbR6n8Zf2qXsphUt8Y4vOMLM9akSh5HgZNY2Z7bhtJ7k7ef6YHn-vvrsbdr56K9pJAgNOaH4VaV3G5QSt2vb1Pwwxj0Ta9sxoF0V0sBS9IADL0Aot0C/s320/website+scriptures+004.JPG" width="213" /></a></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I'm conscious just long enough to squeak in scripture study and prayer with Parker</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">which, last night, included a mini WWF match as Parker tried to dodge his husbanding duties of warming my frostbitten feet</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">before cuddling up in his arms and slipping into a peaceful slumber</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">again, so proud of him for finally mastering this. its' the best part of my day!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLV-xp_jADC5N72NGI6iV5UQMOvQp5ooRsLf-AE2-AClzRckWZNb1egfmFdlFrBgSPelD92MMhMi7ZOIuALbyeePzIQ_Qc92utCzugWl4rm3UnnTbsmkaewF-8MWyxdZV36efUPKl02ANO/s1600/iphone_3g.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="239" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLV-xp_jADC5N72NGI6iV5UQMOvQp5ooRsLf-AE2-AClzRckWZNb1egfmFdlFrBgSPelD92MMhMi7ZOIuALbyeePzIQ_Qc92utCzugWl4rm3UnnTbsmkaewF-8MWyxdZV36efUPKl02ANO/s320/iphone_3g.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">only to be blasted away by my iPhone's island marimba alarm a short six hours later so I can relive this day </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">all. over. again.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">it's like Groundhog's day, really,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">minus Punxsutawney Phil,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">a piano,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">and 100+ comedically unsuccessful suicide attempts.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I've wanted to be this girl</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">the one with the routine</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">the one who makes use of every single second of her day.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The girl who's </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">working hard</span></i>,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;">eating healthy</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">working out</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><i>playing wife</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>planning parties</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">landing promotions</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>cleaning house</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">keeping up on current events</span></b>,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>visiting teaching</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b>lesson planning</b>,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">attending the temple</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">catching up with family</span>,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><i>making time for friends</i></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>magnifying her call</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">growing her testimony</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>loving her life</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">These days are the closest I've ever come to being <i>that</i> girl.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">And I'm happy.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">I am.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">so, so happy to finally be tackling my to-do list and laying it out like a linebacker</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">you could say I'm the Pendleton of "to-done" lists these days</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">:)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>but,</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">somewhere along the line,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I lose sight of that <i>last little box</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">which may, in fact, be the most important checkmark of all.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">because,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> without it, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">every other accomplishment seems quite <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">small</span>.</span><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkCxteS-22rqt7n0AFyO1Z2wSmKVCJHDXcZaeaqysYOU28LxaEhjFRvH_EgYckqu7tWYZQSW3QclmG92MPLSc5tDI81bzbNTfUs9ft8be_yaMVLnJpJv_j9KwUaY6K8s4QXInUSrrxxJ_0/s1600/beach-sand-water-heart.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkCxteS-22rqt7n0AFyO1Z2wSmKVCJHDXcZaeaqysYOU28LxaEhjFRvH_EgYckqu7tWYZQSW3QclmG92MPLSc5tDI81bzbNTfUs9ft8be_yaMVLnJpJv_j9KwUaY6K8s4QXInUSrrxxJ_0/s400/beach-sand-water-heart.jpg" width="400" /></a></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>Loving life.</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Whenever I'm dominating the day-to-day I lose a bit of this somewhere along the way.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I start to go a little stir crazy.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I'd give <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">anything</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span>to mix it up.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">anything</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">to escape the tedium of the routine.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I feel like I need to <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">do </span>more, <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">have</span> more, <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">see</span> more, and <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">learn</span> more</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">about some<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">thing</span>, some<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">where</span>, some<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">one</span>.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I crave curveballs like </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><i>social scenes</i></span>, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">weekend plans</span>, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>romantic dates</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;">exotic vacations</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I long to take the <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">"next step,"</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">to move on to whatever's just around the corner</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">be it a new season, a new position, a new school, a new city.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I want to <b style="font-size: xx-large;">break </b>the routine just as soon as I've set it.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>And I hate that...</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i><br />
</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I get what I want.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I get what I've worked for.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">And then, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">suddenly,<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;"><i>it's not enough</i></span>.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">It's like I reach my best and immediately reset the bar higher</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">convincing myself I need to do <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><i>more.</i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">which is good.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">it makes me grow,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">keeps me from complacency,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">and gives me the chance to reach new highs</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">and greater successes.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">But it also keeps me from appreciating what I <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">do</span> have,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">what I have <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">become</span>,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">what I have <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">achieved</span>,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">and <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">how hard</span> I worked to get there.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEaE6Kmm04Oxkvj13nET4_4WkyVABWRxKQDSuDtxEGXTGlynJoP6slymAic3nkTMk2Ef49Sra1NB3JgwLPcVpZLdThukr52H8O96YdyFJIeCfYTB37pETyjjRLdsOjGMLieHIdTRu6nsjf/s1600/to-do-list-nothing.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEaE6Kmm04Oxkvj13nET4_4WkyVABWRxKQDSuDtxEGXTGlynJoP6slymAic3nkTMk2Ef49Sra1NB3JgwLPcVpZLdThukr52H8O96YdyFJIeCfYTB37pETyjjRLdsOjGMLieHIdTRu6nsjf/s320/to-do-list-nothing.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I am 99.9% certain this is Patrick from Spongebob</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">and that makes me laugh.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">wise words from Mr. Starfish.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">anyway...</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Is this just me?</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Please tell me it's not.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Because I'm nearly certain adding </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large; font-style: italic;">"stop being crazy" </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large; font-style: italic;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">to the to-do list will be my breaking point.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">And I'm thinking once I'm broken,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">there's not a chance I'll be checking that one off the list ever.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">until then...</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">happy Wednesday!!!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">looking forward to a Thursday just like it</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">:)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><br />
</span></div>Parker & Chelsey DeMillehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04753140257112122115noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2969888342910468392.post-69461115045800341072011-02-14T21:56:00.000-08:002011-02-16T20:37:41.872-08:00the commercial holiday<div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCxz5THv2LO7CwKrafYWJDURHtO-WRanGn51mPhn0zCrxzl5MkjmcYNtxJQAywwr60jpbGymNBRYM80Y41TFZISksvxAG1tNj8vV6RxfENjHxohoKRgB-gwXtsMrvdUwdowj9NRB9tcbA0/s1600/The-Notebook-the-notebook-437419_1024_768.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCxz5THv2LO7CwKrafYWJDURHtO-WRanGn51mPhn0zCrxzl5MkjmcYNtxJQAywwr60jpbGymNBRYM80Y41TFZISksvxAG1tNj8vV6RxfENjHxohoKRgB-gwXtsMrvdUwdowj9NRB9tcbA0/s400/The-Notebook-the-notebook-437419_1024_768.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><i>"The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more; </i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i>that plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds. </i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><i>And that's what you've given me. </i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><i>That's what I'd hoped to give you forever."</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i><br />
</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">my breath catches.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">i become unsettlingly aware of my heartbeat,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">the humming in my ears,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">the tightness in my chest.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">i swallow hard in an attempt to dislodge the lump that's crippling my windpipe.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">my once misty eyes begin to fill to the brim.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">it's as if my body's warning me.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">stop fighting.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">you can't win.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">you <i>won't </i>win<i>.</i></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">but I refuse to let my second x-chromosome get the best of me.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i><br />
</i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>"This isn't real,"</i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I remind myself.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>"This never happened."</i></span><br />
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</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I squeeze my eyes tightly shut, tune out, and try and logic my way through the wave of emotion.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">it's my last act of defiance.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">it always is.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">but tonight it seems like a marathon swim back to the shores of good sense.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"></span><br />
<div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">in the blink of an eye, </span></span></div><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">quite literally,</span></span></div><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">i've surrendered to the tide of tears.</span></span></div><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">my tear-stained cheeks speak volumes more than a white flag ever would.</span></span></div><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I've lost.</span></span></div><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">and lost it.</span></span></div><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">all to some silly movie.</span></span></div><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">The Notebook</span></i></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i><br />
</i></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">This is the story of my Friday night fight.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The account of how I tried, time and again, to keep myself from becoming an absolute puddle-bucket over Noah & Allie's star-crossed summer romance.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I'd seen it before,</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">liked it,</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">appreciated the sweetness of their story,</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">and absolutely loved the idea of being so in love.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">But I'd never, <i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">ever</span></i> cried.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Call me heartless,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">call me cold, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">callous, pitiless, unfeeling.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">a shell of a person </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">if you will.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">but,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">do understand,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I did not <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><i>get</i></span> it.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">that is,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">'til Friday night came 'round...</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>"I think our love can do anything we want it to."</i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I'd fared relatively well up until this point; </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">masked my sniffles with feigned sneezes,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">hid my haphazard breathing patterns behind exaggerated sighs.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">But when I heard this line I lost it.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">My eyes, once teeming with tears, spilled over,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">sending a salty cascade down my nose and cheeks.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Each time I tried to fall back on my reality check I failed.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">miserably.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Because every time I tried to tell myself</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>"This isn't real.</i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>This never happened."</i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I realized, more fully, that<i> </i>it is real.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">it does happen.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">it just hasn't happened to us</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">yet</span></i>.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">That's the key word.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">And that realization just about broke my heart</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">because I can't imagine my life without Parker in it.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">He's in every memory of the past.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">every experience of the present.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">every hope for the future.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">It's like he's always been part of my life,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">and always will be.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">And that's exactly how I want and need it to stay.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i>"I want all of you, forever. </i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i>you and me. </i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i>every day."</i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i><br />
</i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">that's what I want.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">that's what I'll always want.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">and that's why, I think, I cried that night.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">As my tears spilled onto Parker's chest,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">thoroughly soaking his shirt,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">he finally clued in.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i>"Chels...are you <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">crying</span>?"</i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i><br />
</i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i>"No..."</i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><i>my uneven tone fully gives me away. </i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><i>so much for sticking to one syllable answers.</i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><i>he always sees right through me.</i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><i><br />
</i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i>"Yes you are...y</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i>ou're crying."</i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><i>he wraps his arms more tightly around me, bringing me closer to him.</i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i>"sweetie, why are you crying?"</i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i><br />
</i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i>"Because I<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> get</span> it."</i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i><br />
</i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i>"You...get it."</i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i><br />
</i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i>"Yes, I<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">get</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span>it. </i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i>I finally understand what it's like to love someone that much."</i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i><br />
</i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">silence...</span></i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;"><br />
</span></i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i>"I think I might love you too much..."</i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i><br />
</i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">He laughs.</span></i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><i><br />
</i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i>"Oh beeder. No more chick flicks for you. </i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i>You can't handle the drama."</i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I try to wriggle out of his arms.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">This is not comedy hour.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Where's my romantic out-cue?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">My line?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I want a line.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">And then, as if he's read my thoughts,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">he leans in,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">kisses me softly on the forehead,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">and whispers...</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i>"Sounds like you finally love me as much as I love you.</i>"</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">(and this is why I keep him...)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">:)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">so, long story short<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">(ish),</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;"></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I finally <i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">got</span></i> it.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Go Notebook, for helping me fully realize what I thought I knew all along.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Note to self: realizing your happiness is so contingent upon the existence of another person is absolutely overwhelming.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">This is likely what it will be like when you have kids...</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">i pray you can handle it.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">And now that I have you all fully convinced we have THE perfect marriage,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I'll refrain from filling you in on our little tiff over Valentine's Day.</span><br />
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">(it was a doozy...</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">but we're good.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">we always are.)</span></div><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Just know, Parker B. is still full of <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">surprises</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">and I am still head over heels in <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">love </span>with him.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">In case you're curious about our itinerary,</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">two adrenaline junkies + 12</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-collapse: collapse;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">° temps = L.O.V.E.</span></b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">SURPRISE! </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I had not the slightest idea.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I was under the false impression that our "reservation" was for dinner</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">and that the blindfold was simply an attempt to add an element of mystery and intrigue.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I smiled as he hurriedly assembled a blindfold</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">(a.k.a. let me hide under a towel and play my iPhone so as to spare my freshly applied make-up) </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">and made me promise to keep my eyes closed until we'd walked through the front door.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">It took me a second to realize where we were.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">It was SO not what I'd expected.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">The last thing I ever thought he'd spring for.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">And it was </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">perfect</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">blissful</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">romantic</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">and </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">so</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">needed</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">(as I decided, just this week, that I want to be an athlete again. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">my body's still paying the price).</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Thank you sweetie, for being so thoughtful.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">such a sweet surprise...</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Tack on our cococabana rolls and coconut ice cream at Tsunami,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">his & hers Dolce & Gabbana: The One,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">and about a million-and-one I love yous,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">and there you have it.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">our PERFECT Valentine's Day weekend.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Thanks for being my valentine Parker B.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I want all of you,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">forever.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">you and me.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">every day.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">and every commercial holiday too.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">so happy you're mine.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">:)</span></div></div>Parker & Chelsey DeMillehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04753140257112122115noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2969888342910468392.post-9700175830784108032011-02-02T05:07:00.000-08:002011-08-29T14:21:04.226-07:00randomness<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I've written for so long about events that it feels almost wrong to just sit and think on paper.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I think that's the one disadvantage of blogging.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Somewhere along the way you internalize the idea that you're writing for everyone else;</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">you worry more about prose and perfectly constructed sentences and sharing all your latest and greatest adventures than the real reason you started the blog...</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">remembering the day-to-day </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">and all life's little happenings you'll forget about in one or two or ten years time.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">so tonight I want to write about the little things that so often go unrecorded.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">feel free to tune out at any time</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">because tonight,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I'm writing for me.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">:)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2p2HvatLcwoIEksdQEr0oEvyaoVftTtKzS4lhDeioI1rhd080Gtda0lQ5tHUxnkPBhnmEGZfxIMa6lBVXs1s2UKrWGTVfKiXDQOqFpZaDgMLVurDnv_VDywYOjqB86WJbNBekaMGVNk1S/s1600/traffic_light.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="287" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2p2HvatLcwoIEksdQEr0oEvyaoVftTtKzS4lhDeioI1rhd080Gtda0lQ5tHUxnkPBhnmEGZfxIMa6lBVXs1s2UKrWGTVfKiXDQOqFpZaDgMLVurDnv_VDywYOjqB86WJbNBekaMGVNk1S/s400/traffic_light.jpg" width="400" /></a></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">1. I may not be afflicted with road rage quite like my dear husband.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I'm okay passing clueless people on the right.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I don't come unhinged when there's bumper-to-bumper traffic.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">And instead of ranting and raving at a driver who cannot and will not hear my creative name-calling, candid criticisms, or edited expletives,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I simply chalk their careless, inconsiderate, and ofttimes moronic driving maneuvers up to a low I.Q., poor motor skills, senior moments, and/or little-man-syndrome.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I am, however, quite bothered by people who honk just milliseconds after the light has turned green.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Excuse me?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Unless you are a superhero with incomparable and incomprehensible reflexes</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">there is absolutely no reason you should give me such an</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> infinitesimally small window of time to transition from the brake to the accelerator. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I've already beat both lanes off the line</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">and am now <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">THIS</span> close to kicking it into reverse and <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">REALLY</span> laying it on the gas.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">so honk again.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">I dare you...</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I may not be QUITE this passionate, but please, do not mistake.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I do NOT approve of this type of behavior.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Not. At. All.</span><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_meCQkSuUsZSARX9va2SVBG5S0EIou0M3R7ULNfrboSNf-oUzTwJEzcIKBmBmYlZSb6_n9rKRxXMdvWP3wqRYiv1aBD8yiF3E15umA5_dEIKRe7IGYfNh6BUNT8AiaGvOrN3guKkov_a3/s1600/images.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="299" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_meCQkSuUsZSARX9va2SVBG5S0EIou0M3R7ULNfrboSNf-oUzTwJEzcIKBmBmYlZSb6_n9rKRxXMdvWP3wqRYiv1aBD8yiF3E15umA5_dEIKRe7IGYfNh6BUNT8AiaGvOrN3guKkov_a3/s400/images.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">2. Sunday naps</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">make.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">me.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">happy.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I've never been one for napping.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">In fact, I really hated it.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Miss Lisa used to have to threaten my life before hiding me behind an armchair to keep me quiet and/or quell my distractive behaviors.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I hated the scratchy, plastic blue mat I had to lay on.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I hated being quiet.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I hated being yell-whispered at when I decided to try defiance.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I hated all the other <s>brainwashed</s> obedient children who'd plop their noggins down and enter a solid sixty-minute coma.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I just hated nap time.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">And I think those bad feelings lasted WAY past the age of 3,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">because I definitely remember resenting even my college roommates for conking out so easily each Sunday afternoon.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">It's hard to say what it is that's changed me...</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">unbearably long work weeks?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Perhaps.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">nonstop weekends?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Mmmhmm.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">gearing up for Sunday game nights?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">You betcha!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">the coziest of comfy beds?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">A contributing factor, for sure.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">cold, wintry weather that makes me want to snuggle up in our sheets for hours on end?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Yes, yes. This too.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">noticeable positive effects, <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">including but not limited to</span>, feeling like a brand new being with a fully functional brain?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"> Good heavens, yes!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">choirs of angels cooing me to sleep with the sweetest of Sunday lullabies?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Oh absolutely!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">maybe even </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">my new cuddle buddy?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;"> Eh...maybe.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">;)</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Whatever it may be, I now have a real testimony of Sunday naps.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">They're the best way we keep our Sabbath day holy and one of the reasons Sunday is fast becoming my most favorite day of the week.</span><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFBksJDeeUvde67mxXNgrYEMFs1-JMv5BzDCkEc1SHNqtYT4ZA8d_OpyI4gMmOEYDgbOr-0PgBpBhI6ww_iqeMc9A7V7vwNFPiTf8xhxizGbrE3vx9FGIaaX7cOZiN-vV6Oni7xOpv9kkA/s1600/ohchocolate.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFBksJDeeUvde67mxXNgrYEMFs1-JMv5BzDCkEc1SHNqtYT4ZA8d_OpyI4gMmOEYDgbOr-0PgBpBhI6ww_iqeMc9A7V7vwNFPiTf8xhxizGbrE3vx9FGIaaX7cOZiN-vV6Oni7xOpv9kkA/s320/ohchocolate.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">3. If there is anything more heavenly than hot chocolate with mini marshmallows,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I have yet to find it. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px; white-space: nowrap;"> H</span>ot cocoa + Mini marshmallows + Salt Lake's currently sub-zero conditions = </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Y.u.m.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Note: This is the instant hot cocoa you mix with water, NOT with milk.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Because milk is "udderly" awful.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">blech...</span><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgm-v1yZmAOdRsTzQA9fnTFUuuO7ADxEHPR81RDosTKtYtJqetx5YfzBB5okJzuzQi6q33xYNVEhKk0dsEVWc52e_NgfD2iwJSMNtJ5g5Bhht5QbhuLdGcJsPh_UcscUYExlVFNDdFtGZAK/s1600/images+%25281%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgm-v1yZmAOdRsTzQA9fnTFUuuO7ADxEHPR81RDosTKtYtJqetx5YfzBB5okJzuzQi6q33xYNVEhKk0dsEVWc52e_NgfD2iwJSMNtJ5g5Bhht5QbhuLdGcJsPh_UcscUYExlVFNDdFtGZAK/s400/images+%25281%2529.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">4. Never sneak a peek at the back label while eating Nutella.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">The calorie count's not worth knowing,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">or noting.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Why make your most scrumptious snack a guilty pleasure when you can just go on thinking it's a plain old pleasure?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Ignorance is bliss here people.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Bliss indeed.</span><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_Vnp2FcHEYK07PZpDrOmOlPWTm5E-McJbgZtGTihAgvplnJjnvaYqaSNVIzAjP2Vl1r2WGBhIa1r8a2TPyCXHs0Uc4j3iAnX2JhEcnuckAHyHju5csCGnz4rBG2Zwc2dob3Cc6eFPzcTR/s1600/police_lights.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_Vnp2FcHEYK07PZpDrOmOlPWTm5E-McJbgZtGTihAgvplnJjnvaYqaSNVIzAjP2Vl1r2WGBhIa1r8a2TPyCXHs0Uc4j3iAnX2JhEcnuckAHyHju5csCGnz4rBG2Zwc2dob3Cc6eFPzcTR/s400/police_lights.png" width="400" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">5. I convinced Parker to take a detour home so I could take a looksie-loo at an accident.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I asked him to double back so I could fully understand the physics of the crash.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">He said no.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I pleaded.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">He still said no.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I pouted.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">No still.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Good husband, bad wife.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">My name is Chelsey, and I am a rubber-necker.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">(I am NOT the type, however, that slows traffic or causes a post-accident aftershock due to my distracted driving.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Know, too, that I am not so morbid as to be the one to wish these things on people.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I just love puzzling out exactly how it all happened.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I should have my own TV show</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">).</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">:)</span><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6CCrXaIJzCc9Gn6_vOft0W9z9cDzVlAJfl-oDdXhlI4ufMTp2Z_GsR9RbG48FiWbWbR-2Kr18gi9ymVcaN1WS15xD7KYzdaqVX2fUselDiU156I4axLP5PnEF2FmjlaZOeqq2ZbYld06A/s1600/scrn_iphone_scrabble02.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6CCrXaIJzCc9Gn6_vOft0W9z9cDzVlAJfl-oDdXhlI4ufMTp2Z_GsR9RbG48FiWbWbR-2Kr18gi9ymVcaN1WS15xD7KYzdaqVX2fUselDiU156I4axLP5PnEF2FmjlaZOeqq2ZbYld06A/s400/scrn_iphone_scrabble02.jpg" width="266" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">6. Bank scrabble is the best scrabble.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I love playing iPhone scrabble with our ultra-competitive bankers.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I love beating said bankers by 100+ points at iPhone scrabble matches.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">And I love that the now bitter bankers think I cheat to win said scrabble games.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">i.e.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><i>"Slanty is not a word Chelsey."</i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><i>"Apparently it is."</i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><i>"Can you use it in a sentence?"</i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><i>"The roof is slanty."</i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><i>"You mean the roof is slant-ED."</i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><i>"Whatever. Suffixes are are just superfluous letters anyhow. </i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><i>Scrabble-master's ruling stands.</i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><i>Your move."</i></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Ya...</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I'm a bank scrabble Bad-A.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">:)</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">truly though..</span>bank scrabble with the bankers is the best part of my bank day</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">every day.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">thanks for keeping me sane boys.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">the bank wouldn't be the same without you.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">or angry birds.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">(that's for another day...)</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">p.s. Because I don't think I've ever mentioned it...</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">LOVE</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"> our team at the bank. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">It is by far the most entertaining and delightful posse I've ever <s>played</s> worked with.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I kind of love that we're top dog in the district, area, state, region...you name it...too.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">The secret to our success?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">scrabble.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">and maybe Shauna too... </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">:) </span><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHlqUkkIi8ODE9bnrX5O7bNrFw3vD1PlJ7qzv14C9SpVAyGveKeoEnecC0YH0yDUtjzeTqSNg4ugHY65yQsF-1UFT2BnfjbE_SyKTbX9aEnhRglx5AMvQxxeyBnHIS5mYoDoJIbf9EDavD/s1600/wordswithfriends.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHlqUkkIi8ODE9bnrX5O7bNrFw3vD1PlJ7qzv14C9SpVAyGveKeoEnecC0YH0yDUtjzeTqSNg4ugHY65yQsF-1UFT2BnfjbE_SyKTbX9aEnhRglx5AMvQxxeyBnHIS5mYoDoJIbf9EDavD/s400/wordswithfriends.gif" width="266" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">7. Words with Friends with my parents is a HOOT!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I spent an hour-plus of our drive to Rockville doing a how-to-install-an-app tutorial with you over the phone.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I nearly gave up at the start when I told you you'd need to download the app and you responded,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">"What's an app?"</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Oh good glory!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Luckily we clambered over that hurdle, the guess-at-what-dad's-forgotten-iTunes-password-might-be, and the why-don't-I-try-to-talk-to-you-while-I-mapquest-AND-navigate-AND-drive hurdles too.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">You'd just barely touched down in Florida.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">You had a day to play before your big cruise.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I never expected you to play.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Not just then at least.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">But you played.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">And played.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">And played.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Played so quickly, in fact, that I couldn't keep up!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I initially thought you both felt as though you needed to entertain me since you'd abandoned me in this snow-ridden state.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">But oh boy</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">! </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I was so wrong.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">When Mom played a 30+ point word</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">and Dad made it quite clear he was out to win</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">(he-who-never-texts shoots me a message to say he "accidentally" skipped his turn by swapping all his tiles and would like me to skip one as well...to make it fair, of course)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I realized these weren't sympathy plays.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">You were both hooked.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">H-O-O-K-E-D</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">hooked.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I couldn't stop laughing when I pictured both of you sitting there at dinner together plinking away scrabble words to your highway-driving daughter,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">or when Mom stayed up until 1:30 a.m. Florida time scrabbling away,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">or when never-text Dad texted me to ask, "Are you still there?" when I waited more than an hour to make my move,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">or when never-text Dad, again, texted me to report, "I'm beating Mom 320-190 and she's calling ME dumb."</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Oh I laughed and laughed and laughed at our scrabbling.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I just love you two!</span><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlgvRFlWzy_ebA0phZZjvtUZEboJfL-2Fj3540rTKcf49prw2JFoV9iMnPv-JODMKl0O9WkeizHMWNN2Mi9oeyYnXcI6CSZ5VtIdUxInHm9aRQA-8R5nS56NaWA26Bqor5Md4N_zAJSfAh/s1600/money.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="214" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlgvRFlWzy_ebA0phZZjvtUZEboJfL-2Fj3540rTKcf49prw2JFoV9iMnPv-JODMKl0O9WkeizHMWNN2Mi9oeyYnXcI6CSZ5VtIdUxInHm9aRQA-8R5nS56NaWA26Bqor5Md4N_zAJSfAh/s320/money.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">8. As of February 1st, I will be a banker.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Yes, it's true.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I've sold my soul to the bank.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">The part-time teller job I'd intended to abandon at the semester's end has suddenly become my profession.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">What?!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Is Miss Broadcast taking a break from the broadcast world?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">For a moment, yes.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Do you know anything about finance?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">You'll have to come visit me and see...</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">:)</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I can't say I love the bank every day.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I can't even say I love it most days.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">But there are some days that I definitely do love what I'm doing.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I love solving problems.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I love helping people.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">And I love helping people see that <i>my</i> way might be the <i>best</i> way to solve their problems!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">;)</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">i'm kidding. just kidding.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">seriously though.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Is this what I pictured myself doing post-grad?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">not so much.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">but it's just exactly what I need.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">and I'm actually kind of intrigued to see where this all might take me.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">My only dilemma:</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Is it possible to really love a job just because you've been so successful with it</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">or does loving it from the start make you more satisfied with your success?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I can't decide.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Maybe it doesn't matter.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I just hope I'm always happy</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">(because heaven knows I'm never satisfied).</span><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigfwg8MUKYUWR_wdj5PgM5Ls-XiELXIXw63TDUtOkPVAo-b0iIEDNxRIlryeb-lusBy2ubibDJ9k6Ii2bHNm2TLf8JEzujdAUbek151JXfRpvAtcfXQwZ9B470CilsJxm5uZ5iUGWhW5RX/s1600/i_love_you_comment_35.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigfwg8MUKYUWR_wdj5PgM5Ls-XiELXIXw63TDUtOkPVAo-b0iIEDNxRIlryeb-lusBy2ubibDJ9k6Ii2bHNm2TLf8JEzujdAUbek151JXfRpvAtcfXQwZ9B470CilsJxm5uZ5iUGWhW5RX/s320/i_love_you_comment_35.jpg" width="250" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">9. I've recently been overwhelmed by the fact that the words "<i>Thank you</i>," and "<i>I love you</i>," never seem to be enough to say what I mean or let the listener know that I really do mean what I say.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">This is so abstract.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Which is likely why I can't quite articulate why it is that this very thought reduces me to a puddle of tears anytime I start to think too much about it.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">I just feel like there are so many people in my life right now who have no idea how I really feel.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">And let me tell you, it is NOT because I bottle up my feelings.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Because I don't.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I never have.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I never will.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I like to share.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">And share I do.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Or moreso spew...</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Whatever</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"> it is, I do my best to let people know just how I'm feeling...</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">how much I love them,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">how much I appreciate everything they do for me,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">how much their friendship means to me,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">how grateful I am for their patience</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">and listening skills</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">and example,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">how very empty my life would be without them in it.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">But lately, saying it doesn't seem to be enough.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">The words sound hollow and empty.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Maybe I've overused "<i>I love you</i>."</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Maybe I've been too loose with my <i>"thank you's"</i>.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Whatever it is, words aren't working for me these days.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">But because this is a blog, words are all I have.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">So...</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I could exhaust this post with a list of all the people who I feel need to know this.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">But I won't,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">(it's too long as is)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">and this deserves a full post</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">(one where I have room to ramble on for pages).</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">so just keep an eye out.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">..</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">when I can finally find the words to say what I mean, I'll be saying it.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">You all know the fight.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">The cuddling's-great-but-I-can't-be-touched-or-anywhere-within-10-meters-of-you-if-I'm-attempting-to-fall-asleep husband,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">whose syndrome's symptoms are aggravated when placed in direct contact with the if-you-know-what's-good-for-you-you'll-learn-to-live-with-and-maybe-even-love-the-midnight-cuddle wife.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Well I am pleased to announce, </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">we did it!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">After 8 months of marriage Parker's learned to both live with AND love cuddling me 'til we're both soundly asleep</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">(in fact, there are many mornings I wake up to find that we've stayed this way the whole night through...).</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I never thought this day would come,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">but I am oh so happy it has!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Thanks for being the best cuddle-bug sweetie.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Here's to many more nights of snuggly-bug sleep!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">:)</span><br />
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</span></div>Parker & Chelsey DeMillehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04753140257112122115noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2969888342910468392.post-6221300750199172962011-01-28T01:42:00.000-08:002011-01-30T09:17:14.330-08:00twenty-four<div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEge-6CoBghyVjkYACKaUMg9qbg-P5ShF0LdEDym3lccFek96FpihyK8GcDt6I_YAYv641ZB9pVA1I_JJUsih9RWr0hHAG28zSWOiY4IH09msOHPWzVqwfejgqTqXMAdIgQfKRALP-qiIuUS/s1600/birthday-candles2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEge-6CoBghyVjkYACKaUMg9qbg-P5ShF0LdEDym3lccFek96FpihyK8GcDt6I_YAYv641ZB9pVA1I_JJUsih9RWr0hHAG28zSWOiY4IH09msOHPWzVqwfejgqTqXMAdIgQfKRALP-qiIuUS/s400/birthday-candles2.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">As of January 15,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">that's how many years my lover baby's been on this earth.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">24!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Can you believe it?</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I can't.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">But I suppose that's just because I missed the first little bit of it.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">And when I say a little bit, I mean most all of it.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">It makes me sad some days to think I missed out on the first 22 years of his life.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I wonder what it might have been like to know the nearly white-haired little wild child...</span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5eXPkKv2d5Ukv-xkYCryMUX8333NZ8Zehi98bbuL6Q55LiAi7OQv9GMAoPxLzDHlYF5MKFWg6-8kr5lysSU9i1iNL9Ch-_I73qRM8_B-KWOcbLBfwYa16PMErcG879xWj6l79yj8PcFsp/s1600/scan0046.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5eXPkKv2d5Ukv-xkYCryMUX8333NZ8Zehi98bbuL6Q55LiAi7OQv9GMAoPxLzDHlYF5MKFWg6-8kr5lysSU9i1iNL9Ch-_I73qRM8_B-KWOcbLBfwYa16PMErcG879xWj6l79yj8PcFsp/s400/scan0046.jpg" width="285" /></a></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">to meet the simultaneously shy and unsettlingly confident high school sports star...</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">(talk about breezing by the insecurities and unhealthy level of self-awareness characteristic of those tumultuous teen years)</span></td></tr>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I wonder if I'd have wanted to be little Parker's play mate...</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">if Mr. RHS might have tried to date me...</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">if I'd have caught his eye that first day in Provo the way I did in ten months' time.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Yes, I wonder.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">But I don't worry.</span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEih-rODX5iADqRAlFkFE03VaXU6BATGn5mG_ytFtWqye27QNXLYUd8cR2KV7xToac_nYP40J8-x7h5I_CU-7TX6tElqxadxlnCDMZcCT2Ti1O5NlljEKrKU9uv3ld__oEJbWed2pFM4nas7/s1600/34605_404606586965_566581965_4526609_5215445_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEih-rODX5iADqRAlFkFE03VaXU6BATGn5mG_ytFtWqye27QNXLYUd8cR2KV7xToac_nYP40J8-x7h5I_CU-7TX6tElqxadxlnCDMZcCT2Ti1O5NlljEKrKU9uv3ld__oEJbWed2pFM4nas7/s400/34605_404606586965_566581965_4526609_5215445_n.jpg" width="266" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Because even though we've barely finished scrawling the first pages of this little love </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I feel like I've loved him my whole life</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">and I'm 99.9% certain he feels the same way too.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">(the 0.1% margin left for doubt comes when </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">A. I try to do my make-up in the car because I'm already 10+ minutes late and get mascara all over his mirror, then argue defensively that it wouldn't have happened had he warned me about the speed bump.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">B. Get hair wax on his favorite suit because I am, again, multitasking in the car because I am, again, 10+ minutes late.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">C. Leave mascara-stained tears all along the shoulder of said suit.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">D. Wriggle my way over to his side of the bed and plop his arm over me, waking him from the deepest sleep because I NEED to be cuddled.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">E. Insist for over an hour that he was the one who threw away my YW's reimbursement receipts and hound him to remember back to where else he might have put them if, as he claims, he did not throw them away. Then come back with a sheepish sorry after finding them in the pocket of my purse, the place he told me to look first.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">The list goes on and on.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I'm a wonderful wife.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I know.)</span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPnUf1W2b15EOFGM8BrAGSulG5hv-nkCxxKzGrSBk2GS1BIQJUCs83svwog-McVSm3nSfxyqUblHbLsPvxBrD5BUra6_E-CZgLChCC4U-t97s1eMVe5hjKh2QHLBGmvu1XGa-BtbIAyUwS/s1600/IMG_1375.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPnUf1W2b15EOFGM8BrAGSulG5hv-nkCxxKzGrSBk2GS1BIQJUCs83svwog-McVSm3nSfxyqUblHbLsPvxBrD5BUra6_E-CZgLChCC4U-t97s1eMVe5hjKh2QHLBGmvu1XGa-BtbIAyUwS/s400/IMG_1375.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">But because I have not even 0.1% of my time spent wondering why you're so wonderful sweetie, I'd like to share with the world 24 things I've learned and come to love about you in your 22, 23, and now <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">24</span> years.</span><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1sfNiPwWPdreiTrIg-YZVC6-GfZLx4ZfKhv9PukxxVHkDpvcQb4l_h2lSbD-iKXL4e1v1eY_gpxcJ9aAhWRDZizsvc3EvT1-JlKzRSzG9hHLQWk-5QbFoEMOmvSsBiNfcHI5Z1OgNfp3E/s1600/600-02886751n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1sfNiPwWPdreiTrIg-YZVC6-GfZLx4ZfKhv9PukxxVHkDpvcQb4l_h2lSbD-iKXL4e1v1eY_gpxcJ9aAhWRDZizsvc3EvT1-JlKzRSzG9hHLQWk-5QbFoEMOmvSsBiNfcHI5Z1OgNfp3E/s400/600-02886751n.jpg" width="265" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">1. I love that you like to partially make the bed each night before you crawl in to go to sleep because, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">unlike me, you hate being tangled up in a messy bundle of blankets and sheets. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">And while you used to think I just had a nasty habit of taking up 99% of our bed, you now realize that happens because you hug the right side and me, the barnacle that I am, has to inch over that far to cuddle with you. I laugh when you sing "Meet Me Halfway" to remind me I can just meet you in the middle.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">Which, to you, is anything more than eyeliner and mascara. </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">I'd be offended were it not for the fact that you remind me constantly that I am one of the few girls you've ever met that, you claim, looks just as beautiful if not better without it.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I believe you sometimes, then other times I think it's just because you hate the idea of any of it rubbing off on your immaculately kept clothes.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">You've often reminded me you like cuddling better than kissing.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">It took me awhile to get used to that when we were first dating.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">You're different than most boys Parker B,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">and I think it's really sweet.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">The only downside to this little quirk,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">you're the best kisser I know.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">For those of you who don't know, </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Chip Mates is essentially generic brand cookie crisp.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">And as much as I hate to admit it,</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">And you all thought we just always looked this perfect. </span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Every time we trek down to Rockville you tell me about the time you spent there working your grandpa's farm with your family.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I wish I'd have known him,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">wish I could've met him even just one time so I could say </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">thank you.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Because this is one of the reasons I've loved you from the start.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">(And because I know this is largely due to the good influence of your Dad & Mom too,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">thank you, thank you Tristan & Kristy!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I pray we can pass this put-your-shoulder-to-the-wheel attitude to our kids someday soon</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">).</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">The last thing your life revolves around is the television</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">(unless the Cougs are taking the court or rushing the field).</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Yet I have, on more than one occasion, had a good little giggle over the way you try to casually ask whether or not Glee's on tonight, if I'm looking up the latest episode of Modern Family on Hulu, or if 30 Rock's back from the holiday break.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">You're not a TV junkie, true. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">But you do take a quick hit every now and again.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">And even though you like to play it off as though you're just enduring it all for <i>my</i> benefit,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">you have to admit...</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">you kind of love it too.</span><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhm72Ww3dxyunFHxXNfTaVVSTbrVCReuTRhaQlR5eRjQUY6kzj9Bv69jhcDikthmUaqwF3AUiIF2rfNYo5MDlU3oZDxWe2IZzq_xP2r3TuqRc8_cls5D6dKhZowk-u-KErWE83kcG7v4d49/s1600/6a00e008daeee088340147e0e772f2970b-800wi.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhm72Ww3dxyunFHxXNfTaVVSTbrVCReuTRhaQlR5eRjQUY6kzj9Bv69jhcDikthmUaqwF3AUiIF2rfNYo5MDlU3oZDxWe2IZzq_xP2r3TuqRc8_cls5D6dKhZowk-u-KErWE83kcG7v4d49/s400/6a00e008daeee088340147e0e772f2970b-800wi.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">8. I love that you never speak poorly of anyone.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">A wise friend of mine shared her resolution to speak more of ideas and less of people.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I loved it!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">What a refreshing thought?!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">That conversations don't always need to involve a discussion about a non-present party to be provocative, insightful, or interesting.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">And when I thought of the people I know who seem to have already mastered this course on good conversation,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I thought of you,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">and how being with you has made me a better person too.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I know you're going to hate this one because "heartbroken" does not connote "tuffness" in your mind,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">but you have to understand,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I think this is ADORABLE.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">It's not like you even had a cavity</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">(which we've never, and hopefully won't ever have).</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Nope.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Just a weak spot or two on your enamel.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">And you came home that dooms-day <i>determined</i> to take any and all preventative action to keep it from developing into anything more.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I gave you a bit of a bad time for it,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">so when I came home with the same diagnosis just a day later, </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">you tried to play the exclusivity card to keep me from the full-prevention "program" you had all ready and set to go.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Luckily you decided to be the bigger person and let me join.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">And please know that,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">even on those days I'm a bit belligerent about your calling me out for my inconsistent flossing,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I am so, so glad we're fluoride buddies.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">You're going to be the best dentist someday.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">:) </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I love that that's the first thing you do after walking through the front door.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">It makes me think that,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">even after the longest and most difficult day,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">you're happier just for having me back in your arms.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">And let me tell you,</span><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYnQlI-kZfWEgKrNEW650juEM2UeRPs2Z6T_Pi2Z3c_PvrkirogHwl2KMpUjpapM5WIqE12iNxT9Je5_06qcImDXmDyxqzVEln0DGbAk6U_-E7Id6N_wEYQ5VcTzmypOaO8kmzhqSpWr67/s1600/37487_410783386965_566581965_4679983_962712_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYnQlI-kZfWEgKrNEW650juEM2UeRPs2Z6T_Pi2Z3c_PvrkirogHwl2KMpUjpapM5WIqE12iNxT9Je5_06qcImDXmDyxqzVEln0DGbAk6U_-E7Id6N_wEYQ5VcTzmypOaO8kmzhqSpWr67/s400/37487_410783386965_566581965_4679983_962712_n.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">11. I love the way you justify never kissing me in the middle of a movie.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I know you do cave sometimes, </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">but it's only when I demand it.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">And I am 99.9% certain you keep your eyes open the whole time.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">And by whole time, I mean the 2.7 milliseconds you invest in your lackluster and apathetic peck.</span><br />
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I used to wonder why marriage made it so that you couldn't be bothered with even the littlest kiss.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">And then I realized,</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">your wimpy kisses don't mean you don't love me,</span></div><div style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">you just really hate missing ANYTHING</span></span></div><div style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">(most especially because our ghetto DVD player doesn't have any way to track back and see what we might have missed).</span></span></div><div style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">p.s. Also funny...the way you refuse to give any "real" kisses after you've brushed your teeth.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I'm still trying to understand why you're only wary of sharing my germs just before you fall to sleep...</span></div><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Yes sweetie, I do love this about you.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I mean really;</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">what kind of whack-job wife would complain that her husband's just too hot???</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Not me. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Never me.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I do, however, resent the fact that this doesn't go both ways.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Again, I realize you don't believe this tickle tribute is at all fitting for a man,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">but sweetie,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">your little piggies cry <i>"Wee! wee! wee! wee! wee!" </i>anytime I'm within even an inch of them.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">(Picture the latest and greatest Geico commercial. Parker's piggies <i>to. the. tee.</i>)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Really.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Not to mention the fact that your face is the picture of unforgivable and unforgettable agony whenever you're made to suffer through one of my personal pedis</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">(which is in no way a comment on the foot-friendliness of my massages.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I started charging for those scrub sessions at the age of 5).</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">so as much as you hate to hear it,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I had to say it.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Because who can resist seeing the tuffest of tuff guys just a little vulnerable?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">You laugh like Scooby Doo.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">You do! You do! You do!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">And it is so, so cute.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">:)</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Known personally.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I threw that in because I knew you'd be blushing by the time you you'd made it to the fine print.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">seriously though.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">You. are. amazing.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Did I ever tell you about the first time I ever watched you board?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Lake Shasta. 2009. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">You land a tantrum no problem on a teeny tiny ski boat wake.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">My BFF leans over and asks,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">"Does this make him like 100 times more attractive to you?"</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I giggle, give a little blush, and whisper back,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">"You have no idea."</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Yes sweetie, I'm singing your praises.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">And no, there's no mute button tonight.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">i.e.: catching my eye, stealing my heart, somehow convincing me life couldn't ever</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"> be better than this.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Ok I'm kidding.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I'm not sure anything you achieved so easily qualifies as a challenge.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">What I really aimed to express here deals with what I said just a moment ago,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><i>you. are. amazing.</i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Whether you're turning my world upside down out on the wakeboard,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">scaring me to pieces with your mountain biking stunts,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">or blowing my mind with how quickly you've mastered maneuvering through the snow, </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">you're making me wonder what on earth I did to deserve you.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">And yet,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">amazingly,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">you're blind to the truth everyone else sees.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">You insist you're still a novice</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">with many new moves to master, heights to reach, and snow to shred </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">before you'll ever even begin to think you've accomplished anything remotely remarkable.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Why be good when you could be great?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I love that that's your approach to everything in life.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">It's refreshing.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">And rewarding.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Especially when you apply it your husband-ing.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">;)</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">Expensive hobby, no?</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">But it makes you happy.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">And that makes me happy.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">And you wanna know what makes me even happiER???</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">That they're now boarding in your brother's garage.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I love not having to wrestle my way into our pantry,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">wriggle into the single teeny tiny space by the sink,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">or trip on a dirty tire while racing out the front door.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Yes...I love this.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I love it a LOT. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">(and I do sort of love tagging along too...)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">:)</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I know no one will believe me when I say it, </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">but with you,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">it's not about the money.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">You really do care about helping people.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">And you are a firm believer in the idea that healthier lives are happier lives.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">A little idealistic?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Maybe.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">But that's what going to make you such a stud in the field.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Not to mention the fact that you are fascinated by the idea of working with your hands.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I think you're convinced dentistry's a creative field.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">And I think that's super cute.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">so here's to a crazy year of big classes, big tests, and even bigger interviews.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I believe in you Parker B.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Thanks for bringing me along for the ride. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">and I love that those tears came because you couldn't stand seeing me so sad.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Don't worry sweetie.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Those were the tuffest of tears.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">You stayed calm, quiet, and quite composed as you held me in your arms.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I never would have known had I not noticed the moonlight reflected in your misty eyes.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I remember I cried harder for having made you sad.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">And you, again, took me into your arms</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">and held me until my quiet sobs subsided.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">You didn't care that it was snowing;</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">didn't care that I had on your one and only coat;</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">didn't care that you were already hours past your bedtime.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">You just cared that I knew that you cared,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">that you loved me,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">and that you weren't going anywhere.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">not now.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">not ever.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">And sweetie,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I knew it.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">And once I knew it, </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I realized</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">that forever with you </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">wouldn't ever be long enough.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I've already explained this one away one too many times,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">but can I just tell you how absolutely ADORABLE it was watching you hold little Ava this last weekend?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">You looked just ecstatic every time she smiled up at you.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">And you must've made about 10+ animated comments on her strong little baby legs to me, Carson & Ashley, and anyone else within a 10-foot radius on the walk from Sunday School to Sacrament Meeting.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I about peed my pants when I watched you trying to get her to walk down the pew.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">"Parker! She's just 4-months-old! She can't even crawl."</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">"But she can walk! All I have to do is help her swing her hips. She does the rest all on her own."</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Oh sweetie.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">You are so cute.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">But let me tell you now.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">If you plan to leave me home with 4-month-old walking babies <i>you've </i>trained,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">you won't have a home to come home to.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Ok?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Ok.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">:)</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I can't tell you how many times you've raised an eyebrow or shot me a questioning look after I've made the comment that I do, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">indeed, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">have blue eyes too.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"> You are a silly boy Parker B.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">And although I beg to disagree with the idea that baby blue is the only shade of a blue-hued iris,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I'm glad you're proud of your God-given good looks.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I'm pretty proud of them too.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I don't love, however, that you expect me to unpack with you.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I like to ease back into home life</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">a.k.a. I'm usually zonked and a little lazy after said trips and just want to plop into bed and fall straight to sleep before I've even brushed my teeth</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">(which is yet another practice you frown upon</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">and yes,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">one I always regret come morning).</span><br />
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">and especially love that you so love to sharing it.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Your 14 & 15-year-old Sunday schoolers seem to love you almost as much as I do.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">And you never employ the use of bribery like I do with my Mia-s.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">(which means you're being judged on merit alone.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">impressive Parker B.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">very impressive).</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Happy Birthday Parker!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">May your <i>Social Network</i>, Settebello gelato, snowboarding, and honeymoon suite birthday have been everything you'd hoped for and more.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I can't wait to see everything your 24th year has in store for you, </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">mostly you, </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">and kind of me too.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Love you my love.</span><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">so I've decided to go another route with our Christmas recap.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">an entry with more of children's picture book feel.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">because, let's face it.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">no one likes blog novels.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Love my little hunk of a photographer.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Did it have skylights over the beds piled with 2-plus feet of snow?</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">A kitchen for the herd to graze in?</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Did it have a hot tub on the outer balcony off the sweet master suite we shared with Jason & Ashlee?</span></td></tr>
</tbody></table></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">It surely did!</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">How 'bout a humidifying indoor waterfall built off the side of a massive wood-burning fireplace?</span></td></tr>
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Pictured above:</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; font-size: small;"></span></span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">The minion my cute Mom created.</span></span></span></div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">she's just amazing, that mom of mine.</span></span></span></div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">and my minion, he's adorable.</span></span></span></div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">i am one lucky girl!</span></span></span><br />
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<div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">And yes, this is my mess.</span></span></div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I took my little masterpieces outside to cool and</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">SPLAT!</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Everyone laughed</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">No one was surprised.</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">story of my life...</span></span></div></td></tr>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">You thought we were always this good-looking???</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Not a chance...</span><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Looking like lost little sheep amidst the </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">I</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">kea herds while searching for a teeny-tiny-apartment-friendly desk.</span><br />
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Lovely.)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">We opt to just stay at the airport.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">No sense in making Dad double back to make the trip two hours later.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">We try to sleep.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">But it's FREEZING,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">below freezing,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">INSIDE THE AIRPORT!!!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I go so far as to put up $13 for an airport blanket that's about as thick as two-ply toilet paper.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">We try hot chocolate too.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Nothing works.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">So we suffer through.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Hate our lives the whole way home.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">And do the math to see if we'd really "saved" by flying Delta.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">By the time we factored in the pay I'd missed for an early flight to Reno and late flight home,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">and being nickel-and-dimed with our bag check,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I'd say we'd have been better off flying Southwest.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Never again Delta.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Never again.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Your rates aren't worth the trouble. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Trying to help our little PC's make peace with the newest member of our family, baby </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">M</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">ac. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">It's hard living in your massive little sibling's shadow.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQ3nO1N2sIOrpN6Jecej2zq9WVhEQyGVqr__FNNhJLHSDtgPxABhe97XZ1BqZVfUadPqWEiU83dPIaFKCMe_-d1x5lKvHM1LU82qUWc4m-FD87NRdcOPwfQLgBhBr6MQ0rjGVRJYqSud57/s1600/shoes_iaec1224812.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQ3nO1N2sIOrpN6Jecej2zq9WVhEQyGVqr__FNNhJLHSDtgPxABhe97XZ1BqZVfUadPqWEiU83dPIaFKCMe_-d1x5lKvHM1LU82qUWc4m-FD87NRdcOPwfQLgBhBr6MQ0rjGVRJYqSud57/s320/shoes_iaec1224812.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">New wardrobes, new boots and new </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">N</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">ikes too.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Mr. "Don't even think about breaking the budget" totally doubled it with just one "fergalicious" purchase.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I told him I'd forgive him of his hypocrisy just this once</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">(and maybe a second time if he decided to buy me the ones in tan too).</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I'm in love </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">with my boots.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I mean my husband.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">:)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">He spoils me.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">But our parents spoil us in turn.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">so I guess it all comes full circle.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">We's such lucky little ducks.</span><br />
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">(Not pictured: Tiffany deVries & Todd Marchant</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">And a few people we missed:</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Jillian Proulx & Jared and Brooke Olson)</span></span></div></td></tr>
</tbody></table></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">P</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">arties at the White House with the original Sparks crew.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">It's been a full 2 years since we've all been together.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Boys set off on missions.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Girls ran off to college.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Most boys came home to Reno's blue school.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">The girls (and some boys) laid their true blue roots in Utah.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">One boy married a Reno girl.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">One girl married a Utah boy.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">And the rest are still living up the single life</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">(though some are coming precariously close to the transition point</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">bling! bling!).</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">We may be living different lives, but we laugh as much as we ever did.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I love my friends...</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">I fought seeing True Grit tooth and nail, only compromising because Dad </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">A. so desperately wanted to see it</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">B. had been a semi-good sport about all our post-Christmas shopping.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">And what do you know...</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">I actually liked it.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Did I enjoy the ending? </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">No so much.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Would I see it again?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Now that I know the plot, probably not.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">But I definitely felt like I got my $10 worth the day we went.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">So I'd recommend it.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">And that's a big deal for me,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">a Western-hater and movie critic all balled up into one.</span><br />
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font-size: x-large;">S</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">ledding, snowball fights, and snowboarding in a winter storm.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">We hiked up and down the mountainside to squeeze in as many runs as we could before sundown.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">If I can find a way to link you to the video of my colossal crash you can chuckle along with the rest of the spectators.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">It's pretty sad.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">But then again, so is the scene where Molly straight up attacks me.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Thank you again, Jason, for issuing the command.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Missed you too big bro.</span><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjU4NmPgRxlOApGQh4GMeT1pRJShyphenhyphen1YngJED9O2V9xaT7Mow99JXkJms4crkip3-miTVuQC13T_ZnEm3SV15tjDwGLis1fQdkruknwZaUHJBpnhZmHWEghrrmaBRfcSUfHRMvoCHYgmmBIA/s1600/tickettoride.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjU4NmPgRxlOApGQh4GMeT1pRJShyphenhyphen1YngJED9O2V9xaT7Mow99JXkJms4crkip3-miTVuQC13T_ZnEm3SV15tjDwGLis1fQdkruknwZaUHJBpnhZmHWEghrrmaBRfcSUfHRMvoCHYgmmBIA/s400/tickettoride.jpg" width="400" /></a></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Game after game after game after game of good 'ol </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">T</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">icket to Ride Europe.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">You could say we're a little obsessed.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Maybe even a little competitive.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">But when you pair a card-counting Dad with an indiscriminate building Mom, vindictive little sister, and a brother who can't build a tunnel to save his life, it's impossible to resist a rematch.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">My favorite Ticket to Ride incident:</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">We're halfway through the game.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Mom has yet to build and has half the deck in her hand.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">As play continues around the table, she leans over to my brother.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">"Jason...have you seen a grey one yet? I can't draw one to save my life!"</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">"There are no grey cards Mom. The grey spaces are wild."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">"Oh. That explains it."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">This wouldn't be funny, except for the fact that my Mom's played this game...many, many times before.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Gotta love games with Mom.</span><br />
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">A </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">V</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">ery Merry Christmas Eve at the White House</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">.</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">We decided to do gifts before setting off to Tahoe.</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; 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<div style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium; text-align: center;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">W</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">ii Tennis. </span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">I think my power serve made Parker fall in love all over again.</span></span></span></div></div><div style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium; text-align: center;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">And, little Miss Haley, I'd like to remind you and your boy Brett that your big "W" was, indeed, a pity win.</span></span></div></div><div style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium; text-align: center;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">You can thank us later for making sure he made it home before curfew.</span></span></div></div><div style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium; text-align: center;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">We're so thoughtful...</span></span></div></div><div style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium; text-align: center;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">:)</span></span></div></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><br />
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can you tell Daddy Dave has his game face on?</span></td></tr>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">We laughed at laughed and laughed some more.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">We always do when we're with family.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">We laughed at the dinky mantle, </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">at Ashlee's inability to maneuver her way through the front door,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">and at my Mom's concern over the black trains building all up in hers and Haley's grill</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">(when they, in fact, were the black team).</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">We laughed at Kristy's kinky (moreso kinked) Ticket to Ride trains</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">and Karen's bi-tracktual behavior.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">We laughed when Dad unintentionally hucked his Wii remote across the room,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">and laughed harder when he dove to catch the mini Christmas tree it'd fully destroyed in its wake.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">We laughed when Josh whacked Uncle Glenn with a swift backhand and laughed at Jason's many whiffs.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">We laughed when I clumsily dropped the tray of desserts we'd just baked and laughed harder when we realized we'd left</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"> our trifle cake out on the deck by Miss Molly's truffles.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Oh how much fun we have when we're together!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">These are the moments I really miss the most.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Because Richfield's population fills the generosity cup to the brim, Parker and I still had an account to shop with down at the local Department Store.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">We set out in search of housewares, or anything else that might qualify as a more traditional wedding gift.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">But we struck out.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">So we shopped instead!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I am so, so pleased with our purchases,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">especially my new Steve Madden coat.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">It's darling.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">As is Parker's tush in his new jeans.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">:)</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>Happy 2011</i></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">You've got big shoes to fill,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">but, if you play your cards right,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">you could very well be our best year yet.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">so here. we. go.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">:)</span></div>Parker & Chelsey DeMillehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04753140257112122115noreply@blogger.com3