tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14725054973382669662024-02-20T09:46:34.218-08:00The CaldwellsHanna Caldwellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03884689208241320187noreply@blogger.comBlogger186125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1472505497338266966.post-17466590978708669812015-08-12T14:18:00.000-07:002015-08-12T14:18:26.833-07:00Aloha Summer Vacation in Hawaii<div style="text-align: center;">
Interestingly enough this was a short notice trip that got planned this summer. Eric's grandparents had been wanting to take the family to Hawaii for some time to visit Eric's cousin but we didn't expect to go until the fall or winter. In the end they decided to go this summer! My brother and friend Ashly tag teamed watching the girls while we were gone and the girls had a blast! We're so grateful to have family and friends that will watch our kids for Eric and I to enjoy a little break every once in awhile!</div>
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We flew to the Oahu and stayed in Waikiki beach. Most of the things we did however seemed to be on the other side of the island so we did end up doing a lot of driving, but got to see a lot in our 5 days there.</div>
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The first day we drove to Sharks Cove in North Shore and went snorkeling and had our "beach day". On the way home for dinner we stopped at the famous Kahuku Grill and had their coconut shrimp featured on many Food Network shows, but I think the best was their fish!</div>
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The next day we went and explored a big market they have set up at the stadium in Honolulu and then we had a chill afternoon and went to a nice Italian restaurant near our hotel for my birthday dinner; yes I got to spend my birthday in Hawaii and it was a great day! Since we're clearly all about the food, we tried the famous Hula Pie for my birthday dessert. While we were waiting to be seated at dinner we watched a firework show they did off shore by the beach.</div>
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The third day Eric's grandma scheduled a private guide and all the events at the Polynesian Cultural Center. It was interesting seeing everything there and we loved the girl who was our guide, but by the end of the night all the jokes and dances throughout the day's shows got really repetitive and it was so hot! It's obvious I could never live in Hawaii as beautiful and relaxing as it is, it's just to humid and hot!</div>
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On our way to the PCC we stopped at a rare black, sand beach.</div>
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Between the luau dinner and night show they had a bus that took us to the Laie Temple. It was so beautiful and fun to see considering I always had a picture of this temple in my bedroom growing up, swearing I would get married there. Haha.</div>
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The last day we spent at Pearl Harbor. Another hot and sweaty day out being tourists but still interesting to see. We took a red-eye home and landed the next morning in Utah ready to be parents again and whip our discipline needing children back into shape!</div>
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It was a great vacation and first time trip to Hawaii! I'll always treasure the trips we've been able to take with Eric's grandparents and family, considering I know it won't always be something we will have the chance to do with them. </div>
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This summer so far has been packed with a lot of fun! We're blessed to live in a neighborhood where we have friends with children the same ages as ours. It's not uncommon for us moms to get together during the day while the husbands are working and let the kids play outside or in the water while we visit. It sure helps the day pass with some entertainment for everyone; basically we love it! We also sometimes switch things up and take the party to different swimming pools, free activities around the area and whatever else we can find to do.</div>
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Aside from fun activities and BBQ's with neighborhood friends, we've been out to Oregon as a family, I've recently went back when Sara had her baby, Eric took the girls to Vernal and we went out to Ely for the 4th of July. We're also taking a trip to Hawaii in a few weeks with Eric's family, without kids.</div>
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Once of the biggest developments this summer is that Mia has learned to ride a bike! Eric's grandma got Mia a balance bike a couple years ago and since learning to balance on that she was able to switch to a 2 wheel bike pretty easily once she learned to peddle and steer. It's so exciting to see Mia grow and make these little milestones in her childhood.</div>
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This is Mia's preschool teacher. Mia loved her! We signed up for a few summer camps throughout the summer with her and Mia will be in your Preschool class for 4 year old's in the fall.</div>
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We met a friend at the Hogle Zoo this summer. The girls both were way more interested in the dinosaurs then any of the real animals.They both look a little more scared in this picture then they actually were haha.</div>
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It's become a norm to go swimming at least once or twice a week this summer. Mia is finally starting to get a little more brave in the water as far as putting her face in and getting water in her eyes.</div>
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We love having friends over to pass the day! They love turning on the water and getting wet and muddy. It's also a norm this summer to have to change outfits at least 2-3 times a day because of this, but at least they are entertained!</div>
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Eric has been traveling a lot this summer for work...or maybe it just seems a lot for me but when he is home the girls just hang all over him! They love their daddy and we love when he gets to be home!</div>
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This is the fish Mia caught when Eric took the girls to Vernal while I was in Oregon. It was the biggest fish caught that day!</div>
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These next few pictures are from our 4th of July in Ely. I forget how much I love celebrating the 4th in a small town. It's fun to celebrate without all the crazy crowds and get to see a lot of people I haven't seen for awhile. This year my brother had a car in the parade and he had Mia and her cousin, Sophia throw candy from the back seat. They had so much fun in the parade and playing together the time we were there!</div>
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I decided to host a craft project for a group of kids in the neighborhood. We had 12 kids under the age of 5 and 5 of us moms to help out. It turned out being a lot of fun! The kids got really creative with it. Once they were done we ordered some pizza and let the kids play.</div>
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Hanna Caldwellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03884689208241320187noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1472505497338266966.post-36557484705657279762015-07-12T15:38:00.000-07:002015-07-12T15:38:50.749-07:00Our Little Livy<div style="text-align: center;">
It's probably because I don't have a child younger than Livy, but even at 2 years old I still consider her "my baby". It also probably doesn't help that she still isn't talking much yet, with actual words anyway, She babbles, screams and tells us full stories all in a language we cannot understand. I'm secretly hoping one day soon she will just start talking in full sentences and we won't have any problems...here's to dreaming though right!</div>
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Some things I really love about Livy is that she loves to snuggle; on her own terms of course but when she does it's for quite awhile and a lot more than Mia would ever want to. In the last year Livy has also joined in with Mia and I with developing a love for crafts and books. She loves to color, paint and do anything crafty and she also loves looking at books. She even will sit through long stories I'll read to her. Having similar interested gives me hope that one day the girls will be close.</div>
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As for now when it comes to Livy and Mia, they have their cute moments but the majority of the time it's them fighting over what the other person has and then vise versa. However, in the last few months Livy has finally wanted to have a little more to do with Mia as far as playing with her and wanting to do everything she is doing.</div>
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Even though this little girl can drive me crazy at times, she's also the one to make me laugh with how cute and silly she can be. I couldn't imagine our family without her!</div>
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For Livy's 2 year birthday we played it pretty low key. I just bought some cupcakes from the store, let her blow out some candles and she got to unwrap a few presents from extended family. For the girls combined birthday present, Eric and I bought them a playset from Costco that we had to build ourselves. After opening the boxes and seeing the hundreds of pieces we were feeling pretty overwhelmed by our ambitious gift idea. However, with some much appreciated help from friends and the girls having to wait a good month after their birthdays to play with their present it has been well used since then and throughout the summer!</div>
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<br />Hanna Caldwellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03884689208241320187noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1472505497338266966.post-29143624607960241602015-05-25T16:10:00.000-07:002015-05-25T16:10:03.005-07:00Mia's 4th Birthday: Fairy Woodland Party<div style="text-align: center;">
How on earth do I already have 4 year old?! Eric and I feel so very blessed to be Mia's parents and see what an amazing little girl she it. Mia loves to help especially with cooking and crafts, is sweet and very sensitive about her feelings, thoughtful about others, gets along with just about anyone, loves to color/draw, sing and play with friends. She is definitely our little social butterfly. My favorite thing over the last few days is when she wakes up she cleans her room, makes the bed and gets dressed all by herself! She says that she can do that now because she is 4. It's pretty much amazing since I never really taught her to do that. One day she just saw my bed made and decided to make her's. Once she saw how surprised and happy I was she's continued to doing it. Hopefully this is a long phase lol!</div>
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Anyway, back to her birthday...in April. It was another year of my being undeceive of what I should do for her birthday. Mia kept asking for a birthday party since getting to go to all of her friends parties; she specifically wanted a fairy party. I've been a little hesitant about birthday parties because first off they sound a little intense with a ton of little kids running around, needing entertainment and I really hate to make birthdays revolved around having a party to get lots of presents. Usually we just invite family over and celebrate that way, but we don't live by family anymore. About a week before I just decided I was going to have fun with it and do one! The upside to having thrown a lot of different kinds of parties in the past is I'm pretty equip with party supplies so that made it really nice and gave me the room to splurge on some things to make my life easier. </div>
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I had Mia list out who she wanted to invite and she picked out the invites. She was over the moon about getting to help plan her party, because she is her mother's daughter and loves all things crafts and parties already. In the short week it came together easily and turned out SO stinking cute!</div>
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One of the things I splurged on, mostly for my own enjoyment, was the cake. A friend in my ward make amazing cakes and ever since trying them I was looking for any excuse to get one. She also does a super cute job on decorating them too. I had her do little fondant fairies to look like Mia and Livy. </div>
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Livy, of course joined in on and enjoyed the birthday festivities as well.</div>
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Another thing I splurged on (although being quite affordable) was having Tinker Bell come to the party. Mia was SO excited about this and I'm not going to lie that I may have been too...although for other reasons. Through this company here in Utah you can get Disney characters to come to your party and they literally do all the entertaining for an hour! Eric and I just got to sit back and watch as Tinker Bell entertained 7 kids. They read a story, sang songs, played games, took pictures and did a craft.</div>
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I'm afraid I might have set the standard a little too high for future birthdays as this won't be happening every year but I must say it was pretty fun to do.</div>
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Hanna Caldwellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03884689208241320187noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1472505497338266966.post-1907905458300180532015-04-28T14:09:00.002-07:002015-04-28T14:23:25.873-07:00Beach House Vacation in California<div style="text-align: center;">
A couple weeks ago we went on our first family vacation with the girls; this means a trip other then to Grandma's house or other family, even though we like those trips too! Growing up I remember my mom talking about doing a spring break at a beach house, but for one reason or another we never did it so ever since then it has been something we've been wanting to do. </div>
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We originally went in on a beach house with my parents for the week of their spring vacation. The beach house we got slept 12 so we decided why not invite Eric's grandparents and little brother too. I bet some of you think that was a bold move planning a vacation with both of our in-laws and while we did have minor bumps here and there, it was a really fun experience, especially since we don't know how many more things like this Eric's grandparents will be able to do in the future.</div>
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As luck would have it we picked the chilliest week out of the month, however that didn't seem to stop us from having fun! We took morning walks along the beach, played in the sand, celebrated Easter with an Easter egg hunt and dinner, went whale watching, played at a nearby park, went to some movies, Eric got to go deep sea fishing, we went to the LA temple and as usual we ate way too much food, including some really good sea food!</div>
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The beach house couldn't have been more perfect either! It was right on the beach. had lots of room and had this great fenced in patio off the side of the house where the kids could play without wandering off.</div>
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Leading up to our vacation I checked out some books with a beach theme or about the beach to help Mia get a sense of what it would be like. One great one was "<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Ladybug-Girl-Beach-David-Soman/dp/0803734166">Ladybug Girl Goes to the Beach</a>". Mia loves the Ladybug girl series. If you have a little girl read those books! Anyway Mia went right out and got right in the waves. She was so brave and having so much fun until she was being a little too crazy, lost her balance and literally face-planted it in the sand. She came up with a big mouth full of sand and crying and pretty much wouldn't get in after that.</div>
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For Easter weekend, my brother Tyler who lives in California came up with his two kids. Mia has SO much fun playing with her cousin. They only came up for air from playing for meal times.</div>
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Hanna Caldwellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03884689208241320187noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1472505497338266966.post-61784322652997275192014-11-02T15:04:00.002-08:002014-11-02T15:04:15.574-08:00A little update and a little rambling<div style="text-align: center;">
It's pretty apparent that since starting Stripes and Polka Dots...now Preciously Paired I haven't been very good at staying up on my personal blog. Sometimes I miss the outlet this particular blog gave me when documenting the growth and events of our family would sometimes lead to writing more of what was really on my mind with being a mother of two toddlers. This blog is a place where I don't really worry about writing proper sentences and structured posts; something I'm terrible at anyway. I guess it seems more like me.</div>
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Speaking of my other blog, now shop, it has been fun and an outlet in a whole other way. Sara and I get to be creative again using each other's strengths and share it with others. We're meeting so many amazing and inspiring people. I'm sure we're possibly setting our sights way higher then we'll ever achieve but it's a fun challenge. Recently we decided that blogging a couple times a week on different projects we came up with wasn't very satisfying. I love a good diy or craft but I don't believe I have the creative mind or energy to come up with multiple projects a week to share. Instead we both found that we really love more of the shop side of things. There's still a lot we have to learn and a some mistakes we're making along the way but it's exciting to create things that are for others rather then just yourself.</div>
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As for my full-time job...being a mom, I have my ups and downs with it. Both Mia and Livy are in phases that require me to constantly stay on top of them in one form or another. With Mia it's having to discipline and teach her how to be a good big sister to Livy, not talk back and listen to mom and dad. Most days I want to scream into a pillow and have my doubts that anything is getting through while in the back of my mind I wonder if I'm doing things right or instead just screwing Mia up to be a non-functioning human being. On the brighter side Mia has learned to be a really good friend to others, she still loves learning and helping and can do a lot more things by herself which she prefers. Livy is in the classic 1 year old phase where she goes from one things to the next, destroying everything in her path. My house can look like a tornado hit it about 30 minutes after the girls get up and most of it is Livy's doing. She's into EVERYTHING! She also likes to think she's Miss Independent by thinking she can run off in all directions the moment I set her down in public. However, no matter how independent she tries to be she still always comes up for a snuggle every now and again. Livy is also officially done with pacifiers. This involves a lot more screaming at our house...happy and sad. Even though it's easy to see all the difficult things about being a parent, there's something about kids that still make you love it and never want to give it up. It's funny how that works.</div>
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Basically our every day isn't much different then most people's. We have our bad days, our normal days and our really good days, but all in all we can't really complain. Life is good.</div>
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Mia's first day of Preschool</div>
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It's a rare occasion when these two can play together, let alone sit next to each other without one of them screaming. I'm praying these two can grow up to be friends rather then enemies.</div>
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A few weeks ago we went out to Ely for a week. One day we went up to Cave Lake and Eric and Mia fished. Mia caught 5 fish on her little princess fishing pool. It was the cutest thing to watch her reel the fish in.</div>
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Hanna Caldwellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03884689208241320187noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1472505497338266966.post-8499803244599070442014-09-09T16:02:00.001-07:002014-09-09T16:02:31.970-07:00Livy's One Year BookI kept putting off this book and even wondered if I should make one. Livy being the second child, she got a little neglected in the picture taking department. I also wasn't as good at documenting Livy's progress and "firsts" over year 1 as I was with Mia so I was worried there wouldn't be much to put in a book. However, with a code for a free book from Shutterfly and seeing how much Mia has loved looking at the two photo books I've made of her I convinced myself to sit down and do it!<br />
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It's crazy to see how much Livy has grown since first holding her in the hospital over a year ago. She is SO different from Mia in more then just her looks. She can be very sweet and then sassy all within a few seconds, definitely knowing how to hold her own with an older sister. My favorite thing is that Livy has been such a smiley and giggle baby from what seems like birth!</div>
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Boy, I love this little girl and the joy she has brought into our family this last year and a half! Oh and for a quick update...Livy is officially walking everywhere! It only took her 15 months.</div>
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Hanna Caldwellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03884689208241320187noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1472505497338266966.post-8185529360348464322014-08-10T13:48:00.002-07:002014-08-10T13:48:55.993-07:00Family Pictures: Lifestyle ShootWith growing children it is near impossible to stay up on family pictures and have them not look outdated just months after taking them. One thing I've been seeing a lot more of over the last year or two with photographers is doing a lifestyle shoot which naturally captures life spent together as a family without all the posing and staging. Granted I can't say either Eric and I are super natural or comfortable in front of a camera, but I figured something like this would be so precious to have once the girls are grown up. It will help us remember and let the girls see life as it was when they were care free and young.<br />
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I'd been closely following a neighbor we lived by when Eric and I were first married who was majoring in photography at BYU. I have seen her talent grow into a business and all her lovely shoots. She mostly has done weddings in the past but has started doing more lifestyle family shoots. When I saw this I knew I wanted her to be the one to do our shoot!<br />
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I love how she was able to capture our little family, especially our beautiful girls. This shoot will be something I will treasure!<br />
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Photos taken by <a href="http://www.daniellewoodall.com/">Danielle Woodall</a><br />
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<br />Hanna Caldwellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03884689208241320187noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1472505497338266966.post-29836389735618715842014-07-20T15:54:00.001-07:002014-07-20T15:54:42.513-07:00Summer Updates<div style="text-align: center;">
If I were to give you all of our summer happenings from the beginning you would be here all day or just quit reading after the 10th paragraph so I'll kept it kind of brief. Plus hopefully some of you follow me at my other blog to stay a little more updated.</div>
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Basically this summer has been busy and fun from May to now. It seemed like we were gone visiting family and had family visiting all throughout May and June. Then in July we had Sara, Collin and Addie staying with us for 2 weeks. We had a blast having them here by the way!</div>
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Some people would say that's got to be crazy and sometimes it is, but I wouldn't have it any other way. I just love my family and all the commotion and have been glad we've got to see everyone at one point or another this summer. Also my best friend from high school came home from her mission at the end of April and moved to Provo so I've got to spend a lot of time with her. I've missed her and Sara SO much!</div>
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For updates on the girls; Mia is talking just as much as ever and even though she still has a little sass sometimes she's quite often my sweet, little helper. She LOVES to help me with just about anything I'm doing. I've also started to notice how friendly and not shy she is unlike me. Often times when we go to the park or someplace she'll just go find some kid around her age and start playing with them and by the end everyone around is her friend. She'd always rather be playing off with some little friend then me or Eric.</div>
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Livy is pretty social too but more from a distance or if I'm holding her. She'll give just about anyone a cheesy smile but when they go to lift her up she freaks out. Plus she loves following all Mia and her friends around acting like she's part of the group. Livy is still not walking. She's making small strides to getting there but still highly prefers crawling. I guess I can't complain.<br />
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Oh and I can't forget the biggest update which is our new dog. For those of you who know me, you know I never wanted a pet. It was a battle Eric and I were constantly facing since we got married. One day I let it slip out to Eric that even though I still didn't personally want a dog it wouldn't be that bad having one as I always made it out to be. Since every time before that moment I refused to even slightly consider it, this statement seemed to light the spark and low and behold about 2 months later we came home with a 7 week old Beagle. We named her Missy. Even now I wouldn't call myself a dog lover, but having a dog has certainly changed my perspective on pets. Mia loves Missy and it's helped her get outside and active a lot more this summer by herself.</div>
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We'll pretend that it hasn't been months since my last post and that Easter wasn't more then a week ago. I've been behind in SO many areas of my life right now that I figure I need to start somewhere and just take it day by day. Luckily this blog post made it on today's list or maybe it's that my kids only seem to be satisfied to play if I'm sitting here and not moving around the house.</div>
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Anyway about Easter, as tradition has it we went out to Vernal to celebrate the weekend and be with Eric's family. This year his grandma rented us a trailer and along with their own trailer we went camping near the spot that we usually have our Easter egg hunt. We hadn't been camping since Mia was 4 months old, so I was at least grateful we were trailer camping and not tent camping in April and with 2 kids. Besides some light sprinkles of rain and Eric and the girls having super bad allergies, it was good camping weather and we had a fun time.</div>
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We pretty much didn't see Mia the two days we were on the mountain as she was highly entertained playing in the sand and dirt with William. Livy wasn't as happy since she wasn't able to be fully mobile and explore all the places Mia was going. Such as life when you refuse to learn to walk.</div>
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For some reason I didn't even think to get a picture of Mia finding all the Easter eggs. Another example of how my mind is failing me! Mia loved it though!</div>
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We went back to Eric's grandparent's house Saturday and went to church with his family on Sunday. His grandma got the girl's these adorable matching dresses. If only it was easy to get a picture of them both looking at the camera and smiling. Oh well!</div>
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I've got a lot to catch everyone up on as of late! We are still loving where we live and I feel like we are fitting right in with the neighborhood and ward. As embarrassed as I am to admit it, I go watch the Bachelor each week with a bunch of women from the ward. Even though I haven't been a steady follower of the Bachelor it's fun to have a girls night and get to know everyone. I've also started playing volleyball each week (I'm terrible!) and am part of a preschool group for Mia. We're also still loving the house even though there is still nothing on the walls and it's generally a mess. It's all a work in progress!</div>
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Per request I thought I'd give you a little tour of the main and top floor of our house :) Here we go:</div>
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Walking into the house you'll see the living room to the left. Right now it's pretty bare.</div>
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If you look head on from the front door you'll see a little nook by the stairs that now houses our new piano! A belated wedding present from Eric's grandma who promised us a piano once we bought a house!</div>
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Here's the view looking back to the front door and a closet.</div>
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Up the stairs are all our bedrooms and a bathroom for the girls.</div>
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Once up the stairs the first door on the left is the girl's bathroom. Pretty much I have a rug and shower curtain up right now. Eventually I'd like to make it a little more "cutsie" for the girls. As of now, Mia prides herself in having her very own potty.</div>
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The next door on the left is to our master bedroom. Nothing huge, but Eric and I both never really cared how big our room was. This is the ONLY room that has something officially up on the walls.</div>
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Connected to our room is a bathroom. Eventually this room will get an update and by eventually I mean pretty far down the line!</div>
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Across the hall are the girl's rooms. Here is Livy's.</div>
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I'm still trying to figure out where I'm going to put those bookshelves that were in Mia's old room. I'm thinking I might cut them in half and put some above Mia's toy box and then the other's in Livy's room. I'd also like to repaint all the bedrooms at some point too. (I sure hope Eric's not reading this and all my plans lol.)</div>
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When you come back down the stairs you can see the dining room and kitchen that are just off the living room. If you go pass the kitchen there is a door to the backyard, a door to the garage and then a door that leads to our laundry room and then a pantry. It's like playing a game of "Which door?!"</div>
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Oh and this week over on <a href="http://www.stripesandpolkadotsblog.com/"><span style="color: #76a5af;">my other blog</span></a> I'm going to be posting before and after pictures of our guest bathroom! It was fun to do our very first "big" project. Fun in that I like the results. The painting and everything else to get the results...not so fun. </div>
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I'm also doing a giveaway of a free Pfister faucet (Kitchen, bathroom, shower head) for up to $300 to go along with the post! So definitely make sure to check it out!</div>
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<u><b>Mia:</b></u> Sometimes I forget that Mia is just 2 years old as she is becoming so grown up and independent. There are times when I try to help her and she will hold her hand out and say "It's Mia's turn!". Mia still loves helping with her baby sister. She sings her songs while I'm putting Livy down for a nap, likes to hold her bottle, and making Livy laugh while playing with her. She even gets a little motherly when Livy gets cranky and Mia will come running in and say, "I'm coming baby, it's ok! Here I come!" in her best motherly voice.</div>
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- Disney's Frozen. We listen the soundtrack more times a day than I can count and Mia already knows all the words to the songs. Also whenever she see's a snowman she calls it "Olaf".</div>
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Mia: "To Livy's bed."</div>
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Mia: "To save the queen. That's my goal."</div>
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- Mia still doesn't quite know the words to the Pocahontas song "Savages". She always sings, "Sandwiches, sandwiches, barely even human."</div>
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The biggest development with Livy is that her two bottom, front teeth popped through the other week. I'm sure going to miss that toothless smile!</div>
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Also if you haven't check out <a href="http://www.stripesandpolkadotsblog.com/">the blog</a> that I'm doing with Sara makes sure to check it out! I'm in the process of updating our guest bathroom that I will be posting about over there later this month!</div>
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Is it already past the point to talk about Christmas? Probably. But hey, better late than never...right?</div>
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This year for Christmas we went out to Vernal to spend it with Eric's family. They sure know how to host a great Christmas! Before going though we decided to open a few of our presents at home so we didn't have to take as much and to get Mia into the swing of things.</div>
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A few of the gift we opened where from my mom. She did a homemade Christmas this year and I think it was a HUGE success! Everything we got was so cute and well done. It's convinced me a little more in trying it. Now I just need to find my motivation to start early enough to do it.</div>
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We had a great Christmas Eve dinner and had a little program afterwards focusing on the greatest gift of Christmas; the Saviors birth on this mortal earth and His life and work while on it. After putting the girls to bed Eric and I played Santa and put together the castle we got Mia for Christmas. All Mia has been asking for is a princess castle. She even braved her fear of strange men (yep we're back in that stage) and sat on Santa's lap to tell him so. I couldn't wait to see her face Christmas morning since she got excited just talking about it.</div>
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Christmas morning came and the first thing she opened was her princess castle. Sadly, it wasn't quite the reaction I had hoped for, but she still loves it and has played with it everyday since getting it. This year Mia was a lot more into opening presents instead of opening one and wanting to play with it. She wanted to open everything so we let her open Livy's gifts as well as some of ours. We all had a great Christmas and enjoyed all the gifts we received.</div>
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The big gift this year was the go cart that Eric's little brother got from Santa. He asked me to take a few pictures of it at many different angles haha.</div>
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Livy got this cute activity garden for Christmas that her and Mia like to play in.</div>
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After the Christmas holiday we came home in time for Eric to do all the work that had been dumped on him on his vacation days...lame and to get ready for our big New Years Eve party we were hosting. I would have never got it all ready without Eric's grandparent's help since they were gracious enough to come out a day before New Years Eve.</div>
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To my regret I only snapped this picture before the party began of the decorations I spent the afternoon putting up and with my iphone no less. Sad! However, all the 20+ people who attended said it was a lot of fun. We had lot's and lot's of snacky food, played games and watched the New Years Eve movie. We had so much going we didn't even get to pull out Just Dance before we rang in the New Year. It was fun to have everyone over in our new house and to actually have space for everyone!</div>
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Now the holidays are over and it's time to get back into real life, which I'm not too sad about. Is it just me or do the holidays seem to bring out the worst in kids? Now that I'm back to real life I've also got some projects lined up involving the guest bathroom and bedroom.</div>
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Also starting next week I'll be joining blogs with Sara over on <a href="http://sewlovedblog.blogspot.com/">her blog</a>. I will still be posting family updates on here, but I hope we guys can all support us and follow us there if you aren't already. We plan on blogging about our experiences as mother's and wives, our projects and just making it a place where others can come and connect and get inspired!</div>
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Now that my novel is finished...Happy New Year!</div>
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Once again it has been a whirlwind of a holiday season and Christmas is less than a week away! I feel like when I was younger the month of December went by a lot slower and Christmas day couldn't come soon enough. Now I'm on the other end and I could use at least another week to actually get to enjoy the season and finish everything I need to do!</div>
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Since we moved into the house the 1st of December I spent most of one afternoon the next week putting up the Christmas decorations for us to enjoy even though the rest of the house was barely in order. The only thing we didn't get to this year was putting up outside lights. Oh well, there's always next year. Our house will be pretty bare once Christmas is over since that is pretty much the only things is our front room and decoration for the kitchen.</div>
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So let's get to the little Christmas "tour" around our house starting with our tree.</div>
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<span style="text-align: start;"> Most of you know Eric and I both grew up with real Christmas tree's and have continued that tradition since we've been married. The last 2 years we've been able to keep this tradition alive thanks to Eric's grandparents who found and cut us a tree down while they were getting their's and then brought it to us. They're pretty much amazing for doing this and we got a beautiful tree this year! I especially liked that we were able to keep the tree tall this year.</span></div>
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There's nothing like a real tree right in your living room :)</div>
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I'm looking forward to the coming Christmas's in the house. I'm sure each year will be added upon :)</div>
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To finish I'm sharing this year's family Christmas card.</div>
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This post has been a lot time coming. I started this project back in August and this is about as simple and easy as a project gets, but one thing led to another and I ended up doing each step about every other week and then didn't want to showcase the final product with moving boxes in the background in a dark basement apartment.<br />
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Just about every poor, newly married couple I know has <a href="http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/50211104/">this</a> dining set from Ikea. When Eric and I got married we found this set on KSL for $40. For being poor it was a great little table, but one thing I never liked about it was that there was never enough room for more then 4 people and no extra for the food once you get all the plates on it. With a growing family and our love to entertain I wanted something bigger. After looking at new dining sets I came to terms with it not being in our budget to get a new one so I decided to give our current table a makeover as well as make it bigger.<br />
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My inspiration came from all the farmhouse tables floating around pinterest and many DIY blogs. I figured this would also be a great way to make my table larger in width and length.<br />
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The first step was to take off the table top by just unscrewing it from underneath. Then I lightly sanded the base of the table and painted it white. I did the same with the 4 chairs, expect I used a spray primer and paint.<br />
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For the table top I used 2x6's cut down to my desired length. I used six of those on the table going across. (If anyone wants actually measurements I'd be happy to give it you.) For the wood planks I first sanded them down and rounded the edges of each. Then I primed them with a dark walnut stain. After the stain was dry I lightly sanded the wood planks again on the edges to give a distressed look. This is where I really started liking the result! Lastly, I did 3 coats of Minwax Polycrylic (water-based) to protect the wood from spills and general wear.<br />
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To assemble the wood planks I used my handy-dandy husband (thanks hun!) to screw them all together with 1x3s and then attached the whole thing to the table.<br />
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There is SO much more room on the table now and room for two chair at the end making it a table for 6 people! I got these upholstered end chairs from Target to finish it off.<br />
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The updated dining set looks great in our new dining room!<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Linked to:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.create-with-joy.com/2013/12/inspire-me-monday-week-101.html">http://www.create-with-joy.com/2013/12/inspire-me-monday-week-101.html</a></span><br />
<a href="http://thediydreamer.com/from-dream-to-reality/97-party-time/"><span style="font-size: x-small;">http://thediydreamer.com/from-dream-to-reality/97-party-time/</span></a>Hanna Caldwellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03884689208241320187noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1472505497338266966.post-4802676043584155622013-12-07T15:07:00.003-08:002013-12-07T15:07:49.797-08:00Our Happenings Since the Last PostingHas it really been over a month since my last post! I feel like only a week has gone by although a lot has happened since October...a whole lot! So just a warning now this could be a rather long post, but I'm planning on getting back on the blogging wagon so here we go...<br />
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We started off November 1st by closing on our house! It was an exciting yet uneventful day considering we wouldn't be moving into the house for another month. We did the whole process of buying the house without a Realtor on either end and for the most part I would say it was a good experience for our first house. The seller was great to work with and we were able to work everything out between us where we were both happy.<br />
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I spent the next couple of weeks packing our apartment along with finishing some of my online classes. A huge thanks to my mom who came out for a week and helped with the girls while I did this! During that time Mia got her first haircut at a salon. She was very nervous because there was a guy who cut her hair and she is in that stage where she is very shy of men. After a few suckers she warmed up to him a little and the end result was super cute!<br />
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Also within the month of November Livy started sitting up all by herself and eating real food. There hasn't really been anything yet that she hasn't liked. My baby is growing up! Not crawling yet, but I don't mind all that much.<br />
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So after getting everything packed and cleaned that I could we left for Oregon the last week of November to spend Thanksgiving with Sara and her family. We lucked out of having to make the long drive that we originally were planning to make since Eric had enough flying mile for us all to fly for free as well as a free car rental. (The perks of having a husband that travels a lot.) With the last couple of weeks being so crazy this was the perfect break before our big move. We had so much fun in Oregon and getting to spend time with Sara, Collin and Addie. We really miss having them so close by.<br />
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My parents and two brothers drove up on the Tuesday before Thanksgiving and the next day we all went into Portland to go to the Zoo and have lunch in downton Portland at the vendor's food carts. Before going to the zoo we asked Mia what animal she wanted to see. She said a pig. Sadly there were no pigs but she still had a good time seeing all the other animals. She wanted to pet all of them.<br />
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After lunch at the vendor's we split up while some of the adults went to Powell's bookstore and we took the kids to get some ice cream at a yummy place called "Salt and Straws". It was a fun and relaxing trip with the family and nice to get the kids out on such a beautiful, sunny day.<br />
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Sara and I had a good time preparing for Thanksgiving as we shopped and cooked. We also enjoyed a nice girls lunch out in Newberg while we chatting about plans of starting up a blog together after the new year. :)<br />
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Thanksgiving was a huge success. We decided to try some new side dishes and all of them were SO yummy. Definitely keepers! To save on the stress of clean up on Thanksgiving we did all plastic wear but it still looked fancy once the whole table was put together. I would highly recommend this to anyone!<br />
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We flew home Friday afternoon and got home just in time to put the girls to bed and finished getting ready to move the next morning. Needless to say Saturday was a long and busy day of moving out of one place and into a new one. We had a lot of help on both ends which we were super grateful for, especially Eric's family coming out to help. I was sad to leave behind newly made friends and a ward we felt a part of, but it's so exciting to be in a house that is actually ours and I know this is where our family is suppose to be and I feel like we've moved into a great neighborhood and ward!<br />
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It's been a week since we've moved in and so far we LOVE it! Mia has barely bothered me at all since moving in as she is so entertained with all the new space to explore and room to play as well as having window's to look out of. I've been worked in getting us all settled in this week (Christmas decorations included) and only have a few more boxes to go! Life is sweet!Hanna Caldwellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03884689208241320187noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1472505497338266966.post-65955642910696575872013-10-31T20:08:00.000-07:002013-10-31T21:58:12.448-07:00Happy Halloween!<div style="text-align: center;">
Happy Halloween from the Caldwell family!</div>
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I'll admit I'm not much of a Halloween fan so I've been dragging my feet getting costumes together for the girls, but after choosing a direction I wanted to go it came together to make one, darn cute Tinker Bell and little minion.</div>
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Livy's costume took no effort at all, which is exactly what I wanted. I just used this minion hat that I made Mia when she was a baby and put her in some overalls. Done! For Mia I had gotten this Tinker Bell outfit at Goodwill while I was in Oregon. Add some wings, tights and shoes with pom poms and it turned into the cutest thing. Not to mention Mia LOVED it!</div>
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For the shoes I just cut the pom poms off the top of some Santa Clause hats we had lying around and sewed them to some shoes she already had. It totally completed the outfit! It also worked out that Mia's hair is finally long enough to put up in a little bun.</div>
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Tonight we had a fun time taking Mia trick-or-treating. We went with a friend around the neighborhood. It was so stinking cute watching Mia and her little friend, Emma hold hands and walk up to the doors to get candy. </div>
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Eric and I are now enjoying our night eating her "goods" now that she is in bed :)</div>
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Lastly, all Halloween things aside...Happy Nevada Day! Growing up in Nevada we always got the day of Halloween off to celebrate the day Nevada becoming a state. Most people see Nevada as a dry, ugly desert and pretty much recognize Las Vegas as it's only city, but when I think of Nevada I think of home, small towns, many adventures in the surrounding mountains/hills and family.</div>
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So to celebrate here's Nevada's state song sung by the Killers :)</div>
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That pretty much sums up our last couple of weeks with the girls. But here are a few updates on these cuties anyway :)</div>
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Mia is always up to something and keeps me laughing now that she is talking more. She is constantly coming up to me pretending to be someone whether it's Tinker Bell, Cinderella, a rhino, King or whoever comes to her mind. She LOVES to sing. We are always singing and dancing, especially in the car. Mia also still loves books. We go to the library every week for story time and we always come home with at least 8 books to read. Speaking of books from the library, I have been trying to get books about Halloween to prepare Mia on what is it all about. We have further prepared in going to Cornbelly's a couple times as well as doing some Halloween crafts. Today we made these cute ghosts. I just cut a ghost shape out of card stock and Mia glued on cotton balls and the eyes and mouth. Its was a fun little craft perfect for toddlers.</div>
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Mia also painted some little pumpkins that we got. She has been carrying them all over the house with her. </div>
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Mia's favorite thing at Cornbellys was this slide and after going down a couple times on our laps she wanted to try it on her own. She's our little thrill seeker.</div>
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Livy is my little sweet pea. As was with Mia, one of my favorite things is getting Livy in the mornings when she wakes up. She is so happy to see Mia and I. Livy is also SO close to sitting up. She sat all by herself today for 5 minutes without toppling over. She also finished her first jar of baby food this week...green beans and she loved it! I can't believe she is almost 6 months old. That first year really flies by so very fast! She'll be one before I know it!</div>
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And as usual, I am still loving watching these two together. Mia is always making Livy laugh and Livy is always watching Mia play with wide eyes. You can tell she is very eager to jump in there and start playing princesses too.<br />
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Hanna Caldwellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03884689208241320187noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1472505497338266966.post-49742913061682693842013-10-14T16:20:00.001-07:002013-10-14T18:48:43.210-07:00Trippin' to OregonSo Oregon...I loved it! This trip won't have been possible without a free flight and babysitter all provided by my much loved husband. Everyone asked is Eric was nervous, but this wasn't his first time with the girls alone plus I knew they were in great hands!<br />
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My mom and I left for Oregon on a Wednesday afternoon and got to stay until Sunday. We joked that after spending the 3 days exploring we needed another day or two to hang out at the house and do some projects. As always we had way more planned that we were able to accomplish, but regardless I think we made the most of our trip! My favorite things included<br />
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2. Taking the MAX into Portland and doing what girls do best...shop! My favorite place was our 3 hours spent at Powell's Bookstore, which is the largest new and used bookstore in the world. We would have spent longer in there expect we were buying too many books and didn't want to carry them all around Portland with us. We also had lunch at a huge block full of food carts. There were so many things to choose from and it all looked so good!<br />
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We also stopped at Voodoo Doughnuts that has been features on a couple food network TV shows. Mmmmm :)<br />
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3. Our sunny day at the coast. We were expecting a chilly day, but it couldn't have turned out more perfect. While at the coast we stopped at a lighthouse and had lunch at a restaurant looking out on the beach.<br />
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4. Tillmock Cheese Factory. If you want amazing ice cream in 30+ flavors in a delicious waffle cone then this is the place to go! SO so good! They also have a Tillmock smoke house up the street where you can buy really good jerky too. (This is where I got Eric's "thank you" gift for watching the girls and letting me have a little break.)<br />
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Sorry no pictures of this. We were too busy eating ice cream :)<br />
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5. Lastly, being able to go on this trip with my Mom. Usually she's the one watching our kids so Eric and I can go on trips so this will be something I got to share with her that I will always treasure!<br />
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Even coming back home and getting sick and Livy not sleeping well I didn't mind at all! It's amazing what a little break can do with helping you be a more patient and better mom! I can't wait to go back for Thanksgiving with Eric and the girls!Hanna Caldwellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03884689208241320187noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1472505497338266966.post-59141132967808932962013-10-11T08:20:00.001-07:002013-10-11T08:20:17.792-07:00Friday's Favorite Finds #3It's been awhile since I've done my favorite finds so I have a few good one's saved up! Check them out!...<br />
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1. Arizona Super Skinny Jeans from JcPenny's. I've never though skinny jeans were an option for me before. They never felt comfortable and I always had to go at least a size or 2 up to just get into them. My sister tipped me off about these. Not only are these the first skinny's I've tried on that are so comfortable, but I actually went down a size to have them fit better! They are also not super low rise which I love especially after having 2 kids. And lastly my most favorite parts are they come in multiple colors (I've bought 3 pairs already) and are only $19.99!<br />
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2. <a href="http://www.ourbestbites.com/2009/04/baked-creamy-chicken-taquitos/"><span style="color: #45818e;">Our Best Bites: Baked Creamy Chicken Taquitos</span></a>. Need I say more, expect that they are simple and am-a-zing!<br />
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3. Come to me by Goo Goo Dolls. There is something about this song that I love and might have had it on repeat for the whole time I was typing this post.<br />
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4. Girl only Vacations! So this is one of those "not really a new discovery" finds but after a trip with my mom to Oregon to hang out with my sister last week it helped me remember how much I love them! Needless to say the trip couldn't have been more perfect and it was nice to have a little break to come home and remember why I love being a mom.</div>
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Just waiting for the rest of the pictures from our trip from my sister and then I'll update everyone about Oregon :)<br />
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I grew up having these cookies just about every fall so to me it's never officially fall until these delicious cookies are made and eaten. So after a long night and being a little under the weather the last couple of days it sounded like the perfect opportunity.<br />
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I've decided to share this yummy recipe not only because I love it so much, but I'm starting to try and take pictures of some of my favorite recipes I make so one day I can make a cookbook with the pictures. After seeing that you can make cookbooks on <a href="http://www.shareasale.com/r.cfm?b=340225&u=771058&m=31260&urllink=&afftrack=">Blurb</a> it's something I've been wanting to do sometime; as ambitious as that sounds. We'll see how long it takes to do :)<br />
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<b><u>Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies</u></b><br />
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2 cups shortening or butter<br />
2 cups sugar<br />
4 eggs<br />
2 cups pumpkin<br />
4 cups flour<br />
2 tsp baking soda<br />
1 tsp salt<br />
1 tsp cinnamon<br />
1 pkg chocolate chips<br />
1 cup walnuts<br />
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Blend butter and sugar. Add eggs and pumpkin. In a separate bowl shift together flour, soda, salt and cinnamon, then add to pumpkin mixture. Add chocolate chips and nuts and mix all together. Spoon onto a greased cookie sheet and bake at 375 degrees for 8-11 minutes.<br />
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While the cookies are cooking mix up the frosting and frost cookies when cooled.<br />
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3 TBSP butter<br />
1/4 cup milk<br />
2-4 cups powdered sugar<br />
1 tsp vanilla<br />
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Heat sugar, butter and milk. Mix in powdered sugar and vanilla until it's the consistency of frosting.<br />
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Stay tuned for a post about my fun trip to Oregon last week to visit my sister!<br />
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<br />Hanna Caldwellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03884689208241320187noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1472505497338266966.post-21568199306079062152013-09-29T14:20:00.000-07:002013-09-29T14:22:41.935-07:00Our Family: 2013<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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It's so fun to see how our family has grown in just the 4 short years that Eric and I have been married. Today in my primary class that I teach we talked about how Heavenly Father loves us so much that he gave us families. Families that we can be with for eternity through the sealing power given in His holy temples. I am ever grateful for a family of my own that I have been blessed with. I hold so many dear memories with my family that I grew up in and I am excited to create memories with my own family! I can't wait to see the friendship that form between my sweet girls and to see who else the Lord has waiting to come be a part of our family, although please take note that this won't be for quite awhile ;). I'm excited to see the people my kids will one day become. I can't wait to continue the family vacations, the family traditions that will be created and giving my family a loving and peaceful place to call home!</div>
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So far it definitely hasn't always been smiles and laughter, but I hope that as Eric and I continue to figure out how to make our family strong and be good parents the majority of our days together will be filled with happiness and love!<br />
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Hanna Caldwellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03884689208241320187noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1472505497338266966.post-14782030327362240912013-09-26T16:19:00.001-07:002013-09-26T16:19:25.983-07:00Becoming a Better Me: UpdateI have to apologize to those of you who enjoy reading my blog for the crafts or family updates. I am almost done with our kitchen table...still not exactly sure how I feel about the outcome yet. Regardless expect a post on that soon. As for our family, well as sad as it is we haven't done much worthy of a blog post lately. Eric has still been traveling every week and weekends have been packed with trying to get things done for the new house, clean and pack the one we're living in and other "not to exciting" things. However, next week I am flying with my mom to visit my sister in Oregon and am literally counting down the days! I feel like I've lost a best friend since she has left as well as getting to see that adorable little girl of her's.<div>
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So a couple weeks ago I wrote a post where I made some goals to help me become a better me. Not everything went according to planned. The night after writing that post was the night Livy started officially sleeping through the night. I'm talking 9 PM and around 8 AM! I have no complaints about a full nights rest, but my 6:30 alarm clock was not longer waking up. No matter though because that was also the day Mia decided to start waking up an hour earlier at 7. It's like they can sense mom has made some changes based off their schedules so they should change it instantly. So instead, I get up when Mia gets up, take her to the bathroom and have her play in her room while I take a shower. After breakfast we all finish getting ready and are set for the day around 8:30. I then do my daily cleaning according to the cleaning chart I posted. I have LOVED this cleaning schedule! I feel like I am able to keep the house cleaned so much better and it doesn't seem like an overwhelming task. I get finished with that by 10 and have the rest of the morning to play with the girls until naptime in the afternoon where I can then have some "me" time. I'm amazed at how much more I'm accomplishing but still feel like I have the same, if not more, time than I did before.</div>
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For example, I take Mia to story hour at the library at 10:30 once a week and before, getting ready and out of the house by 10 even 11 was a struggle. Now we are all up and dressed with the house cleaned well before we need to go. This has definitely made me a happier mother!</div>
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Now that I have started to get my "every-day" life in order I have started focusing more on some inward goals. And the other night I came across something interesting. I actually read my real, hard copy scriptures instead of off my Iphone and I opened up to a post-it note of some goals I made when I was in high school. I found it interesting to look at the things I wanted to work on then, to how I improved on some of those things and what I am still working on. Here's the list:</div>
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-<b> Do not say ANY mean things!!</b> Ok, so I'm still working on this one. It's something I struggle with, but it's a dream of mine to one day leave this world being remembered as someone who was very nice and kind. Hopefully in the next 60 years I can make that happen!</div>
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-<b>Be a better friend and sister.</b> Now I would add wife and mother to this list as well. All things I am still working at daily as well!</div>
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I loved learning that I am not alone in my quest to be a better me through your comments! Your comments have been a great support to me! Thank you for them! And if you're reading this thank you for making it to the end of this post!</div>
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I know this post is treading on controversial ground among professionals as well as mothers, but with a fully active toddler discipline is a subject I'm constantly being faced with and something I'd like to throw out there for conversation.</div>
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So what do you do when your toddler throws their whole dinner on the ground because they don't want to eat it? When they hit you or throw a loud, screaming tantrum in the middle of the store because they aren't getting what they want? When are they old enough to start really understanding that something is wrong and at what age should disciplinary actions be taken to enforce what we are trying to teach them?</div>
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Shortly after Mia turned 1 and was becoming more mobile and talkative, these were the sorts of questions running through my mind. Since then I have learned from my studies and through watching other mothers that there are a lot of different views and opinions on the subject of disciplining children as they are taught right from wrong. Here's my two cents on the matter:</div>
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First off I'll just state this up front...I am pro discipline.Now I'm not talking spankings or yell even though I will admit there have been times when I have lost my cool and have ended up yelling at my kids. Saying this I would like to put out there that I recognize that I am not a perfect mother and that I am still learning. I also recognize that each child is different and reacts to things differently. Therefore, take this as merely my stance on the subject and my views on what has worked for me so far.</div>
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A quote from <a href="https://www.lds.org/ensign/2005/10/a-thousand-threads-of-love?lang=eng">THIS</a> address given by President James E. Faust states my views on the subject of discipline perfectly! "<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Direction and discipline are certainly an indispensable part of child rearing. If parents do not discipline their children, then the public will discipline them in a way the parents do not like. Without discipline, children will not respect either the rules of the home or of society."</span></span></div>
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So that being said, I think there comes a time in a child's age when there needs to be a consequence for their actions for them to learn that something is wrong rather then just stating that it's a "no-no". For Mia it was between 18-24 months. I learned that starting earlier rather then later is best. My method was putting her in timeout facing a designated corner after firmly explaining to her why she was now in timeout. Let me tell you how much I <b><u>hate</u></b> this stage of disciplining! Although I tried to be consistent, I felt like Mia wasn't grasping a thing I was teaching her even after some days feeling like I spent most of my time putting Mia in timeout. Just when I was loosing hope and thinking I was going to be the worst mother at trying to raise a decent and well behaved child (while trying to keep in mind that she was only 2) Mia finally started making the connection between her actions and the consequences. I think because we started a little earlier with trying to help her learn the consequence of her actions rather then thinking she was too young to grasp what we were doing gave her the chance to learn as she developed and began to understand new things quicker then if we started later. Granted she still is not a perfect child in always obeying nor do I expect her to be, but I do get that "proud mommy" moment when I see Mia obeying me and doing as she should. </div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: x-small;">Linked To:</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.muchadoaboutsomethin.blogspot.com/2013/09/tell-us-tuesday-8.html">http://www.muchadoaboutsomethin.blogspot.com/2013/09/tell-us-tuesday-8.html</a></span><br />
<a href="http://www.homestoriesatoz.com/tutorials/tutorials-tips-link-party-128.html">http://www.homestoriesatoz.com/tutorials/tutorials-tips-link-party-128.html</a></div>
Hanna Caldwellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03884689208241320187noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1472505497338266966.post-13380417048219169962013-09-09T06:30:00.003-07:002013-09-09T13:34:58.003-07:00A New Beginning: Becoming a Better MeLately I've been feeling like I've stopped taking charge of my life and somehow stopped participating in the things around me. I've let my role as a single mother during the weeks swallow me up where I feel like it's given me an excuse to sit around to do nothing because of how exhausting it can be sometimes. Most days, unless we have somewhere to be, neither me or the girls are dressed. I lazy around in my pajama's and unwashed hair hoping that no one decides to knock on the door. I've also become so immersed in the world of social networks and Pinterest that I often find myself jumping on the computer to send/answer an email and end up spending at least on hour more checking other things all the while leaving Mia and Livy to entertain themselves. I'm feeling overwhelmed by how far behind I am in housework, like I have no energy and will to want to do much not to mention Mia is at the fun age where she is learning so much and likes to discover and experience new things. Things which I should be taking more time to show her and help her learn.<br />
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Just so people don't get a completely wrong idea of me and think I'm the worst mother, it's not this ALL the time, but I feel like it's happening more often then I would like. With the start of fall and the beginning of September it's always seemed to mark a "new" year or a new start for me. When I was in school it would be a time to make new goals and a start to a new routine for my new semester. So I thought this would be the perfect time to think about what makes me happy and feel more energetic as well as what are the things that are most important to me that I should be spending my time on. This has led to a list of new goals I would like to set and you're welcome to come along as well as join in my journey of becoming a better me.</div>
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