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Our family is training to hike the Grand Canyon in March! We did our first official training hike as a family before the crazy Wisconsin Snow came. We hiked 4 miles wearing our new hiking boots. There was some complaining, but overall, was a win. We hiked to a bridge that was super creepy, the boots were super comfy, and everyone had snacks and drinks along the way. We rewarded the kids by going to lunch afterwards which made everyone happy.</div>
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The idea of going to the Grand Canyon all started a few months ago while Regan and I were talking about the fact that we only have 2 1/2 years left with Riley until he graduates from high school. We want to make more memories and have amazing experiences with our family before the kids start leaving our house, so what better way to create amazing memories than to drive an RV from Wisconsin to The Grand Canyon, hike the Grand Canyon and then go to Moab for Spring Break! </div>
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We are having the kids each walk a mile on the treadmill every day at a 10 incline to train. Regan is wearing a 50 lb. weight vest to crossfit every day so he can be prepared to hold Winnie on his back in the Kelty backpack! This is going to be an epic adventure for our family!!!</div>
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Only 42 days away!!!</div>
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<br />Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15839948711797319541noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4276508451357312387.post-38334691684014477132019-12-08T13:32:00.001-08:002019-12-08T13:32:30.968-08:00Living our BEST Life!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
Regan and I have made DATE NIGHT a priority this past year so that we can actually talk to each other without kids listening, and so that we can have a chance to connect each weekend. I look forward to these date nights more than I ever thought I would because it gives me a chance to talk to Regan about how the week went, what is going on with the kids, planning things for the future and just a chance to enjoy being with my guy! </div>
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A month ago on one of our Date nights, the whole topic of discussion was 'how can we live our BEST LIVES?' What are we doing or not doing to live our fullest, best lives? We talked about career ambitions, family goals, dreams for the future and things we can change in our lives that are not serving us in a positive light. </div>
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One of the many things we talked about was social media. We both agreed that social media was wasting our time by just scrolling mindlessly on our down time, and trying to not compare ourselves when we saw someone go on a trip, or get an awesome new house, or not be invited to go somewhere with someone...etc...</div>
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Regan and I decided to go on a 6 month social media fast to be more productive with our free time and really live our mission of finding ways to live our best life. It's only been a week, but I have been SO productive with my time, and I love just focusing on the needs to my family and those around me. </div>
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On that note, I have had a LOT of people say they will miss the comings and goings of what is going on with our family and particularly the kids, so I will be updating my blog occasionally with things about the family. </div>
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Merry Christmas!!!</div>
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<br />Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15839948711797319541noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4276508451357312387.post-54424477150649920752019-02-19T13:18:00.002-08:002019-02-19T13:18:26.356-08:00Day 1-Traveling<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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It took us 15 hours to fly from Chicago to Cairo and we were pleasantly surprised how awesome Turkish Airlines was! They gave us great meals, blankets, eye masks and had hundreds of movies to watch! We tried not to sleep so that we could get on Egypt time. By the time we got to our hotel, it was 9:00 at night and perfect timing to sleep since we were exhausted!!! </div>
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The hardest part of our traveling was actually parking the car in long term parking at the Chicago Airport! It was impossible to find the parking signage. We got to the international terminal and had 30 minutes until boarding! </div>
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Having an 11 day trip to Egypt {2 days traveling, 9 days in Egypt} with Regan was amazing! Seeing where he grew up for 10 years of his life and seeing everything in an ancient land was a dream come true. It was truly Regan's kind of trip. Going strong all day, seeing and doing EVERYTHING! It was the most adventurous trip I have EVER taken. Every day, Regan's arabic would get better and better and it was SO cool to hear him communicate another language. He was able to get us around so well and I was so impressed with how well he was able to adapt. </div>
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We drank bottle water and brushed our teeth with bottled water. We had a probiotic pill every morning to help with food issues. I am so happy to report that we didn't have 1 food problem while in Egypt and I think it was because of the probiotic pill, drinking bottled water and being cautious of street food. </div>
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We didn't have jet lag until we got home. Since we got on Egypt's schedule right away, we were able to have lots of energy throughout the trip. When we got home, we had major sleeping problems for a week. I would go to bed at 7:00 and Regan would wake us both up at 4 am!</div>
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I was so worried about the safety in Egypt. Like, I had a will made up if we were to die scared. I am so happy to say that I never felt in danger. There was so much security everywhere we went. There are a ton of people and the traffic is insane, but the safety and security was never an issue. I kind of laugh at myself thinking how nervous I was now that I am back home. </div>
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If you go to Egypt, I would highly recommend having a tour guide for most of the trip to get you around and explain everything. I would also recommend using Uber instead of taxis. It was so easy for Regan to tell the Uber driver where to go through his phone and then the payment was electronic. </div>
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Something I wish we would have done was to get more small bills in Egyptian pounds. Everyone gets tipped in Egypt, so having smaller bills would have been easier than always trying to get change. </div>
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We tried very hard to do as the Egyptians while in Egypt. We ate as authentic as we could, we went to all of the places the Egyptians were at, and we came home with no regrets. We would come back to the hotel each night completely exhausted because we did so much every single day. No relaxing on this trip, and I would have had it no other way!</div>
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Happy 40th Birthday Regan! Thanks for taking me on a trip of a lifetime! I will never forget this!</div>
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We met our tour guide, Yasir and driver, Mustafa today. They drove us to the capitol city, Memphis. Yasir invited us to have Egyptian tea with him. It is loose tea at the bottom of the glass, and you add mint and sugar. </div>
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Within the first hour we were in Memphis, I spotted my friend Rachelle's parents who were also in Egypt! What are the chances of that?<br />
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Seeing these beautiful Egyptian hieroglyphics was so cool! Memphis was one of the ancient Egyptian Capitols until around 2,200 BC which was a cult center for God Ptah, God of Creation and artwork. There were many temples and monuments dedicated to him.<br />
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This huge statue of a pharaoh was found in a deep river.<br />
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This was a pyramid in Saqqara. It was surrounded by an ancient city. This temple belonged to King Zoser and is called the step pyramid and is considered the first pyramid in Egypt and the first rock cut building in the history.<br />
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This was the temple of the priests.<br />
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We went down into the pyramid and saw these beautiful writings on the walls. Going down deep into the pyramid was so amazing. We had to duck once we were all the way in some of the time.<br />
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Our tour guide, Yasir was so great about teaching us the history of each place we went to.<br />
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We ate our lunch of pita bread, tahini, baba ganoush and yogurt with stuffed grape leaves and kebab.<br />
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In Egypt, they ask if you want Chicken or Meat. They don't really distinguish the difference of meat...I always got the chicken.<br />
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We then went to a papyrus maker and were taught how papyrus is made. Pretty amazing.<br />
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We bought a papyrus with cartouches. We had the lady draw our names with hieroglyphics of each family member.<br />
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From there, we went to Giza where the most famous pyramids are. Of course our tour guide had us take popular touristy pictures.<br />
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Giza has 3 pyramids that belonged to 3 Kings; King Cheops, King Chephren, and King Menkaure which are guarded by the rock cut statue of The Sphinx. The great Pyramid of King Cheops is the only wonder of the seven wonders of the ancient world that is still standing today, although it is 2,000 years older than any other wonder on the list.<br />
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Here is a good view of the King's Pyramid with his wives smaller pyramids on the side.<br />
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We took a camel ride right by the pyramids of Giza and I wanted to pinch myself since it didn't seem real. WOW, such an amazing memory. We even looked like Egyptians, haha!<br />
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I could not stop laughing watching Regan's camel go up and down. SO amazing.<br />
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We then went to see the Sphinx.<br />
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We ended our first night in Cairo with a Nile Dinner Cruise. We ate delicious food, drank amazing Egyptian Lemonade and sailed on the Nile. We even got to watch a belly dancer and a guy who span around at least 1,000 times without falling.<br />
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What a magical first day in EGYPT!!!Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15839948711797319541noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4276508451357312387.post-35635430027361701582019-02-19T12:28:00.001-08:002019-02-19T12:28:13.904-08:00Day 3-Egyptian Museum & Citadel<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
Our hotel was across the street from The Egyptian Museum of Antiquities which was built in 1902. It has more than 120,000 pieces of amazing Egyptian treasures. We had Yasir, our tour guide to show us many of the most amazing artifacts. </div>
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This is the Rosetta Stone which contains 3 different kinds of ancient languages. <span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">The Rosetta Stone was carved in 196 B.C.. The Rosetta Stone was found by French soldiers who were rebuilding a fort in </span><b style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Egypt</b><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">. It is how we are able to understand and read ancient hieroglyphics and writings. </span></span><br />
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To think that all of these pieces of art and statues were found inside tombs, pyramids and buildings more than 4,000 years ago is just amazing.<br />
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This is a mummified dog!<br />
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The most amazing display at the museum was King Tut's Tomb! WOW! The reason why King Tut's possessions are even here is because his tomb looked like a commoners tomb so grave robbers did not even try to get into his tomb. This picture on top is his gold throne.<br />
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King Tut was only the King for 9 years until he was killed in battle.<br />
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This is the exterior of King Tut's tomb. Inside this large box are 3 other boxes that contained all of his worldly possessions. There was a room where we couldn't take pictures but it was all of the GOLD they found inside his tomb as well as his gold death mask! I saw a guard yell at someone who took a picture so I didn't even try, but here is one I found online. Crazy to think how much that thing is worth!<br />
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This is the outside of the Museum. They are actually building a new museum that is triple the size of this museum since there is just so many antiquities.<br />
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We then went to the Citadel. It was built in the 12th century to fortify Cairo against the Crusaders. The Citadel was used as the seat of the King and his government in Egypt for many centuries and many dynasties including the Great Alabaster Mosque of Mohamed Ali Pasha which stands at the highest point inside the courtyard of the Citadel. It is a beautiful landmark in Cairo with its huge space, beautiful decorations and remarkable domes and minarets.<br />
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While sitting inside this mosque and learning about the Muslim religion, a lot of kids came up to take pictures with Regan and I. I thought it was so funny.<br />
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Hearing the call to prayer while in the mosque was beautiful.<br />
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The views of Cairo were amazing! It was a clear day so you can see the pyramids in the background.<br />
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<br />Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15839948711797319541noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4276508451357312387.post-50194526996651188682019-02-19T11:59:00.002-08:002019-02-19T11:59:54.954-08:00Day 4-Regan's 40th Birthday<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
Today was Regan's 40th Birthday! Being in Cairo on his birthday was SO cool! We did a lot of tourist Egypt activities today. </div>
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We started out at the Sultan Hassan Modrasa and Mosque which is one of the an extraordinary monument in the Islamis world. It took 43 years to build and includes different Islamic architectural styles. </div>
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I should have worn socks because to go inside the Mosque, you can't wear shoes. The mosques were filled with Muslims visiting with their families. 5 times a day, there is a Call to Prayer and being inside the mosque was so cool watching the Muslim families praying during the call to prayer. Our guide, Yasir had us sit inside the mosque and he told us all about the Muslim religion. We were able to ask him any question and it was so cool to be able to understand more about their religion.<br />
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We went to the biggest mosque in Egypt Ahmed Ibn Tulun where we got to see some amazing views of Islamic Cairo. Cairo is nicknamed the city of a thousand minarets {a minaret is the top of a mosque}.<br />
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We were able to climb to the very top of this mosque. There were more than a hundred stairs to go up to the top of the tower. Regan was scared to climb up so high since he is scared of heights, but seeing the views from the top was amazing.<br />
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Cairo is just SOOO crowded and full of people. 19.5 million people live just in Cairo!!! This would explain the crazy traffic!!!<br />
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The Gayer Anderson Museum is attached to the Ahmed Ibn Tulun Mosque. He was a high commander in the British Army during the British invasion to Egypt. Inside he has so many artifacts from Egypt and other Islamic countries that he collected while in the Middle East. A James Bond Movie was even filmed here. The scene is with James Bond jumping from the house into the mosque courtyard. </div>
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Our guide stopped at a street cart and got us Sugar Cane Juice. It was different but yummy!<br />
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We then went to el Moez which is 1,000 year old open air museum of Islamic Buildings which are decorated with different patterns.<br />
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The next part of this day was probably the crazies part of the whole trip. We went to the<br />
Khan el Khalili Bazaar which is one of Cairo's main attractions. It is where you can find souvenirs, cafes and shisha {egyptian pipe smoking}. The amount of people in these small allies was pure craziness. At one point, there was a small motorized cart that was trying to get through all of the people and broke down. People were trying to push it out of the ally while other people were yelling and getting mad. I cannot even describe how many people there were in such a small space.<br />
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Regan's bartering skills were on par! He chose a few souvenirs that he wanted and negotiated the price. I was so uncomfortable!!!<br />
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This is the entrance of the tent makers market. It was amazing to see how people sew intricate designs by hand.<br />
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This is all sewn by hand made from little scraps of fabric.<br />
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After the Khan, we drove by the City of the Dead. People really liven the cemetery since they are too poor to live anywhere else.<br />
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We ended Regan's birthday by going to an awesome hotel called the Semiramis. We ate a sushi dinner and then had drinks on the top of the hotel overlooking the Nile. My favorite was Regan dancing to the arabic music that was playing.<br />
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Happy 40th Birthday Regan! Thanks for bringing me on a trip of a lifetime!Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15839948711797319541noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4276508451357312387.post-76075083219950463322019-02-19T11:08:00.003-08:002019-02-19T15:33:29.135-08:00Day 5-Maadi<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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We had a free day today and I was so excited for this particular day since we were going to Maadi, the town Regan grew up in. We took an uber and started walking all day. We started walking to all of the houses that Regan grew up in. The first house had a Boab {someone who watches the house all day} in front of the house and told us not to take a picture. We were worried that we wouldn't be able to see Regan's school. When we got to CAC {Cairo American College}, Regan explained that he had graduated from this school in 1997. They welcomed us with open arms! They had a whole alum department who gave Regan a school key card that he could come in and out whenever he wanted, and then they gave us an hour long tour of the whole campus. The campus was amazing! A huge building for elementary, middle and high school, sports building, art building, music building, library. I felt so at ease at CAC. For me to hear Regan's memories of this school was so cool.<br />
After the tour, we went to the library and spent an hour just looking at all of the yearbooks Regan was in. I have never seen one of his year books so it was so cool to see what he was involved in. The way he describes his senior year, "I was such an idiot!" I could not stop laughing when I read what his senior picture quote said...see below!<br />
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Regan's family friend, El Hamy made this mosaic art in the art building.<br />
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Regan said he spent hours and hours in the sports building.<br />
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Regan would climb to the wooden platform and then jump to the swinging bar on the ceiling! When we told the kids this, they thought that was so cool.<br />
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Regan said he spent hours and hours swimming at this pool in the hot months.<br />
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He said he spent hours playing outdoor basketball at this court.<br />
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We sat on a bench in the middle of the school and I told Regan if we were to ever move to Egypt, I would want our kids to go to this school and we would live in Maadi. Seriously, the vibe at the school was so clean and safe. The graduating class are all going to amazing top colleges and it seemed like an amazing school. Being at the school and hearing Regan's experiences made me feel a lot closer to him and made me understand more of his childhood.<br />
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These pictures all came from his senior yearbook 1997.<br />
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I laughed SO hard when I read what Regan put on his senior picture.<br />
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Regan graduated from high school at the pyramids in 1997...no big deal.<br />
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Walking all around Maadi and hearing Regan tell me all of the stories of his childhood was SO awesome! Mardi is an awesome city! He would walk from his house to his Bible Study Class {seminary} each morning, then walk to school. We even went to the McDonalds that he and his friends loved to go.<br />
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We probably walked at least 10 miles today. We found a barber shop where Regan got the Best Haircut of his life. Seriously, they put a hot towel over his face, gave him a massage, plucked all of his nose hairs and eyebrows, and treated him like a King. I was super jealous!<br />
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In the middle of the day, we walked down to the Nile and took a Felucca boat ride. It was so awesome to be on the Nile on a Felucca all to ourselves! Such an amazing day!!!<br />
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We spent a lot time looking at all of the yearbooks Regan was in.<br />
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Regan grew up in this house<br />
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Regan grew up in this house<br />
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Regan's Church Villa<br />
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The McDonalds Regan used to hang out with his friends<br />
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Our Captain on the Felucca ride<br />
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The best hair cut of Regan's life.<br />
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We were able to meet up with Ahmed Bessary and his beautiful family. It was so neat getting to know them! Ahmed was married to Regan's Mom for 12 years. His wife and 2 daughters were so sweet and kind.<br />
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We went to New Cairo with Ahmed and Abeer. They were so kind to us.<br />
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New Cairo was insane! Nothing like the Cairo we have been spending time in. It has a huge mall with Ikea and tons of American Stores and a huge movie theater.<br />
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We had a free day today, we we started our day out at the Cairo Zoo since Regan had great memories as a kid visiting this zoo. The funny thing about the zoo is that we were the only Americans there. Tons of tons of Egyptians with their families not there to see the animals, but to have a picnic. They would spread a blanket on the ground and put all of the food they had hauled to the zoo to eat on the blanket. </div>
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Regan actually had 2 baby crocodiles that lived in his bathtub as a kid, and he said they looked just like these. I cannot even imagine having those as pets!!!<br />
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Seeing live chickens inside the snake cages was not cool...<br />
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We were able to hold a Baby Lion! I still cannot even believe it. Regan was not surprised at all. I felt so bad for the baby lion because the Egyptian was making it keep its head towards the camera. Negotiating the price of the picture since we couldn't use our phones was more difficult than holding the actual lion. The fur was much tougher than I thought it would be.<br />
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From the zoo, we went back to the pyramids to really get up and close to the stones.<br />
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When we first went to the pyramids with our tour guide, we weren't able to get right up to the pyramid stones so I really wanted to spend some time seeing how big it really was.<br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">The exact number of stones is estimated at </span><b style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">2,300,000 stone</b><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> blocks weighing from 2-30 tons each with some weighing as much as 70 tons. I just could not fathom how the Egyptians built these pyramids 2500 years BC!!! That means they have been standing for more than 4,000 years!!!</span></span><br />
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This is to show you the size of most of the limestone blocks making up the pyramids. There are 3 big pyramids in Giza. One for each of the 3 kings; King Cheops, King Cheprhren, and King Menkaure which are guarded by the rock cut statue, the Sphinx.<br />
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No climbing...We still did anyway.<br />
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There are 3 smaller pyramids for the 3 wives of the pharaoh.<br />
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Everywhere we went, Egyptian kids would ask to take pictures with Regan! It was hilarious how they thought he was a rockstar from America with his blonde hair. When he spoke arabic with them, they were shocked!!!<br />
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Watching the camels at the pyramids get up and down was so fascinating to me! They are so tall so it is quite amazing to see how they move.<br />
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From the pyramids, we got an uber to take us to the stables Regan had memories of going to when he was a kid. I still can't believe we found them because our uber had to go in tiny streets and back alleys to get to the stables. Once we were there, we found the one Regan remembered from his childhood. He told the owner that we wanted to take a sunset horse ride in the desert. He negotiated the rate of $20 for a 2 hour sun set ride with a guide. Not too shabby!<br />
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When we first started on the horses, we were in a really dirty ally way with trash everywhere! Regan and I were wondering where we were going since we couldn't see the desert. Then, the wide sandy desert was right there. We saw a dead horse which was not great, but other than that, we could not believe that we were riding horses in the sunset with the pyramids in the background.<br />
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We rode the horses a ways in the desert, and Regan galloped fast down the sand. I trotted because I was trying to hold my backpack!<br />
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Our guide was so awesome to take pictures for us even though he didn't speak English.<br />
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We were far enough away from the tourists and were the only Americans/tourists riding horses in the desert.<br />
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After the 2 hour ride, we returned the horses and couldn't believe how amazing our sunset horse ride in the desert overlooking the pyramids really was!!!<br />
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We ended our night eating Kosheri, the Egyptian national dish and rice pudding. It was so yummy and cheap. This whole meal cost us $3.<br />
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Friday is the religious day in Egypt, so we started out our spiritual day at the Branch Regan went to church in as a kid which was in a town called Maadi. The villa where the church is located was still there and looked the same to Regan. The only difference was the amount of people. When he was living in Cairo, there were about 40 people in the church. The day we went to church there were close to 80! It was so neat to see so many people attending the </div>
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Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in Egypt!</div>
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While at Church, Regan was able to talk to a lady who was in the branch when he was a kid.</div>
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We found out that the week before, an apostle of the Lord from our Church, Elder Bednar had come to Cairo to visit this branch. He said that the villa they were meeting in would not be large enough the next time an apostle comes to Egypt. That was pretty cool to hear that the church in Egypt is growing.</div>
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After we went to Maadi for Church, we went back to Cairo to meet up with our guide and driver. They took us to Coptic Cairo, meaning Christian Cairo. We started out at the Hanging Church was is dated back to the 3rd century AD and is dedicated to the Virgin Mary. It is called Hanging because of its location above the gatehouse of the ancient Roman fortress "Babylon". It contains 110 Holy religious icons. </div>
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We then went to the Saint Sergius and Bacchus Church which is believed to have been built on the spot where the holy family {Mary, Joseph and Jesus} rested at the end of their journey to Egypt.<br />
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We then went to a Jewish Synagoge of Ben Ezra which gained its importance from its store room in the 19th century which contained a treasure of abandoned Hebrew manuscripts. </div>
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Seeing the other church's and religions in Egypt was so cool. I really enjoyed learning about the history of Christianity in Egypt. </div>
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Easier then took us to Garbage City to see the Cave Church. When I say Garbage City, I really do mean it is a city within garbage. The buildings are all so close together and contain people as well as storage for trash. In the building with the colorful graffiti, there were tons of pigs which are illegal. Basically, people collect the garbage in the city, sort it in categories {glass, metal, paper, plastic} and cut it down to size, bag it and resale it!<br />
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The streets were so dirty and muddy, yet people were walking round like it was no big deal. People have made their lives living in garbage city and sorting through the trash for a living, so for them, it is just a way of life. Garbage City is Cairo's large informal garbage collectors settlement where garbage recycling is central to the populations economy.<br />
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These buildings look like they are just going to fall down since they are basically leaning on each other!<br />
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It was So crazy driving in the streets of garbage city. Our driver did an amazing job of maneuvering through the streets with all of the trucks holding trash.<br />
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Once you got through garbage city, the Monastery of St. Simon, The Cave Church is at the end. The monastery of St. Simon has the largest ampitheater which seats 20,000. This church is the largest church in the Middle East. There are religious carvings all over the rocky mountain.<br />
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We ended our day with one of my favorite Egyptian dishes, Koshary which is the national dish. It is <span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Egyptian</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> Rice, Lentils and pasta with Spicy Tomato Chile Sauce</span>Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15839948711797319541noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4276508451357312387.post-79772694171805954572019-02-19T08:31:00.001-08:002019-02-19T15:12:07.540-08:00Day 8-Fayoum<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
This was our last day with our tour guide, Yasir and driver, Mustafa. The plan was that we drive 2 hours away to an Oasis in Fayoum where we were going to see beautiful waterfalls. As we went to the police check point, the police asked where we were going and then told us we could not go past that point because it was not safe. Regan looked at his phone and found out that earlier there was a bombing at the place we were supposed to go. </div>
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Yasir had to come up with a Plan B since were already out of Cairo. We got falafels at a street cart and ate them overlooking the largest salt water lake in Egypt, Qarons Lake. Even though I was nervous to eat street food, I will say it was the best falafel I ever had! So fresh!</div>
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Yasir then took us to a stand off the side of the road for some Egyptian Tea. The thing that was so interesting about this shop was that it was run by a 10 year old boy and his 6 year old sister. The parents were not there! I can not even imagine Elle and Emery running a stand off the side of a busy road all by themselves!!! By the way, Egyptian tea is not so great, but we drank it to be polite.</div>
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Once Yasir came up with plan b, a police car filled with 4 policeman escorted us for the rest of the day. I liked that they were with us, but the extra security actually made me more nervous and then made knowing we would have to pay them.<br />
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The first stop we took on our plan B Fayoum day was to the first pyramid ever built. The reason why it doesn't look as good as the pyramids in Cairo is because this one was made from Mud Bricks.<br />
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We were able to go down into the Pyramid but weren't able to go very far since the inside was filled with water.<br />
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This pyramid is said to have housed grain inside from The Old Testament story of Joseph from Egypt. <span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: "helmet" , "freesans" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">In the Old Testament, Joseph is sold into slavery in Egypt by his brothers, where he later interprets a pharaoh's dreams and helps the Egyptians survive a seven-year famine - by storing grain.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: "helmet" , "freesans" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> </span><br />
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It is crazy to think that bricks made from mud can still be standing 4,000 years later!<br />
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The second stop were to some Egyptian ruins.<br />
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The last stop was to a potter in Fayoum. He showed us how he makes his pottery.<br />
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Every potter has their own color scheme and design to distinguish themselves from other potters.<br />
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After we bought some pottery, we sat down for some fresh fruit juice and waffles over looking the large salt water lake. I had lemon mint juice and Regan of course had mango juice.<br />
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There was a German Couple who had a waffle stand at the pottery place, so we got a gourmet waffle in the middle of nowhere! Regan was very happy! </div>
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After our plan b day in Fayoum, we said goodbye to our tour guide, Yasir and driver, Mustafa. They were so great to have with us and so kind.<br />
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Regan wanted to find a dessert he loved when living in Egypt called Zalabia. We got them covered in Honey, Chocolate, and Sugar. We obviously had so many left over so I bagged them up and found a poor Mom with her children on the busy streets of Cairo begging for food. They were SO happy to have this treat. Seeing the hungry kids was so sad and it just made me want to help them somehow.<br />
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For dinner, Regan found an Egyptian restaurant that only has 10 people in at a time to eat. It is a set menu of a lady who cooks authentic Egyptian food and it was amazing. We had Tabouli, Baked Fish and Sauce, Chicken and rice and Molokhia.</div>
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The thing I love about traveling with Regan is that everything we do and everything we eat is sure to be authentic. I truly feel like I got the total Egyptian experience because of his adventure!</div>
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We stayed at an amazing hotel called the Steinberger Hotel. The security alone was impressive. If coming into the hotel from a car, the car had to go through a gate, have a guard dog smell all around the car, guards would then inspect the car and ask the driver who it was bringing in and their credentials. If coming in from the street, you had to go through a metal detector and put your bag through a screener. The guard would then scan your body with a metal scanner.<br />
Once you stepped foot into the hotel, you then had to go through the same process. Bag through the scanner, go through the metal detector and a body scan. Honestly I loved it. It made me feel very safe in the place we were staying.<br />
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The breakfast was SO impressive! We had crepes every morning with mango, vanilla and strawberry sauce! We would also have mango and guava juice every morning and a shot of mango puree. One thing that I loved as well was the rice pudding topped with pistachios. Some mornings I would have a fresh falafel with tahini and pita bread. Seriously, we looked forward to the breakfasts each morning.<br />
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Since we had a whole free day on our last day, we went back to the Khan al Khalili to do some shopping. We were there early in the mooring before all of the crowds and it was easier to look in the shops. Regan is the master negotiator! I seriously get so uncomfortable with bartering, but Regan has a natural talent for it. </div>
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We were able to get some really cool souvenirs for the kids and some cool things for our house. </div>
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Every time Regan would speak Arabic to a shop keeper, they would be so surprised. I think that helped in his bartering since they were able to communicate better with him. </div>
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Do you spot the cat? Cats were EVERYWHERE in Egypt, as well as hundreds of stray dogs. I felt so bad for the cats and dogs because they would just wander the streets searching for anything to eat.<br />
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We went to a stable outside of the pyramids to have an hour camel ride in the dessert. This was so much better than riding camels right by the pyramids since it is so touristy and expensive. Our guide did not speak any English, so thank goodness for Regan's arabic skills.<br />
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Our guide was so awesome to take pictures for us in the desert. The weather was a perfect 65 degrees most of the time we were in Cairo.<br />
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The Egyptian guide knew all of the funny pictures to do with the pyramids in the background.<br />
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WOW! Seriously, riding camels in the Egyptian desert was amazing! They were actually so much more comfortable riding than horses because they had more padding on top.<br />
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Our guide motioned for Regan to stand on top of his horse, so Regan did. I seriously have NO idea how he was able to balance on top of the horse but it turned into a cool picture!<br />
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So riding camels in the desert with he pyramids in the background was amazing! Once in a lifetime experience. The next thing that happened was just pure crazy and looking back, Regan is glad we had this experience to show us true Egyptian culture. Me, not so much...<br />
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While riding back to the stables, I noticed that my selfie stick had fallen out of my pocket. I had just felt it minutes before, so I knew it couldn't be far. Regan told our guide that I had lost something so he told us to stay on our camels in the middle of the desert while he went on his horse to find the stick.<br />
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I was so mad at myself because I should have put it in a more secure place. Once our guide was gone for 10 minutes, I was getting pretty nervous. Luckily, our camels were being really good and staying put. Out of nowhere, an Egyptian on a donkey came riding up to us. He asked Regan what we were doing. Regan explained to him that our guide was trying to find a selfie stick I had lost. He then said, "how much will you give me if I find it?" Regan told him 100 pounds which is 6 dollars. The guy then rode away searching for the stick as well.<br />
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At this point, I was over the selfie stick and wanting our guide to come back so we could get going. The Egyptian on a donkey came back and showed Regan a camera lens he had found. Regan told him we didn't want the lens but he wouldn't leave us alone so Regan gave him so money to make him leave us alone. Our guide finally came back with no selfie stick. I tried to communicate to him that it wasn't a big deal and that we could just go. The donkey guy came back up to us and was asking for money if he found the stick. Somehow, our Egyptian guide could tell something was weird.<br />
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Our guide immediately got on his horse and led us and the camels to the nearest police check point which was close by. He told the police to keep an eye on us and then he left. At this point, I was getting pretty nervous and I was ready to end the camel ride. Keep in mind we were stuck on top of the tall camels this whole time. Our guide was gone for 10 minutes while the police just looked at us. Very uncomfortable. Finally our guide came back and he had the guy on the donkey with him. We think what happened is that he lured the donkey guy back with him saying that the Americans would pay him for the selfie stick since he knew he had stolen it. Our guide got off of his horse and told the police that the donkey guy had stolen something from us. They immediately took him off of his donkey and found the selfie stick on the donkey guy.<br />
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Regan and I were so confused. Then, out of nowhere, an Egyptian all dressed in white from head to toe came out, started yelling at the donkey guy and just slapped him as hard as he could. The sound of the slap took me by surprise since it was so loud and I just felt so bad that I started crying. Regan told me to stop crying since the police were looking at us weird. Apparently, the man dressed in white was some kind of a Muslim Priest and was discipling the guy who had stolen our property. The donkey man gave the selfie stick back to me and we were on our way with our guide while the police and priest kept the thief.<br />
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I was so taken back by the justice system we had just witnessed. Regan thinks that the Muslim priest that came out and slapped the guy was discipling the thief which was better than the police doing something more extreme. I was so proud of our guide who didn't speak any English because he truly wanted to just keep us safe and to have our lost property back, even though I didn't even care at that point about the selfie stick. All I could say to him was shukran.<br />
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I was so freaked out by the whole experience, but Regan thought it was cool to see it right in front of us. We got off of our camels and were on our way. The total cost for us riding camels in the desert for an hour was $15! Regan told the stable the price we wanted to pay and they accepted. I think they were fine with that price is because they don't get any tourists coming to their stables. Tourists usually just ride horses and camels at the pyramids for 20 minutes for a much higher price from their stables.<br />
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Our über driver couldn't find us at the stables, so we got a taxi. Regan told the taxi driver we wanted to go to the Mena House which was pretty close by and that we would pay 20 pounds. The taxi driver accepted and mid way into the drive, he said, "you pay me 10 dollars!" By this time, we were so done with Egyptians trying to scam us so Regan pulled out his new arabic word he had just learned. He said, are you a Haraami? The Egyptian taxi driver just laughed and laughed at Regan. When we finally got to our destination, Regan paid him the 20 pounds and were were glad to be out of his taxi.<br />
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Once at the Mena House, which is a palace hotel the Marriots bought, we sat under an umbrella table, ordered Mango, Guava, Strawberry puree drinks and just chilled. We couldn't stop talking about the craziness we had just experienced and just laughed and laughed.<br />
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We ordered a traditional Egyptian lunch. Fresh Pita Bread, stuffed grape leaves, tahini, hummus, baba ganoush, tabouli, falafel and shawarma. We kind of felt like we deserved a nice feast after our crazy police encounter and our last day in Cairo.<br />
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Besides the whole crazy fiasco with the selfie stick, I felt safe in Egypt and was pleasantly surprised how much security was all over! If I would have known this, I don't think I would had been so nervous to travel to Cairo. I think that Egypt's tourist economy is struggling, so they want people to feel safe. The police presence was even more heightened when leaders from other countries came to visit.<br />
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WE SURVIVED our 1st Wisconsin WINTER!! People say it wasn't that bad, but man oh man it was a hard transition for me to move mid winter!!! I am SOOOO thankful for the beautiful Spring weather now!!! We had a fun Easter in our new house! The Easter bunny knew where to find the Fackrell kids!</div>
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Easter Dinner with our Wisconsin friends, the Swalves and Steffans.<br />
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Visiting the Madison Zoo!<br />
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Bubbles at the zoo!<br />
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We took our first hike in Wisconsin with All of the kids and some friends from church! Winnie was SOOOO good in the kelty backpack...it was a good workout for me!<br />
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This was the beginning of our hike...then we decided to listen to some teenagers saying that the next part of the hike was just fine for little kids. Lesson learned, don't trust teenagers! It was so hard and steep but such a good workout for our troop!<br />
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I LOVE this little troop of ours! Mindy and Rachelle have become great friends!<br />
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We went to a farm where a bunch of Spring Animals were born. The favorite with all of the kids were the kittens!!! Sunny was OBSESSED!<br />
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Baby Chicks<br />
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Winnie and I got to visit my fam in Utah and help with Steph's bridal shower! IT was very needed to be with my family!<br />
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Angie & Lisa did cute decorations!<br />
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Of course swig cookies...<br />
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My Mom did the cutest favors...cake bites and flowers!<br />
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I love all of these ladies in my family!!!<br />
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Winnie & Brady are becoming little pals!<br />
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We are so grateful that Spring is here now and that we aren't cold all of the time!!! Bring on the fun times outside now!Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15839948711797319541noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4276508451357312387.post-486599510528684842017-04-02T16:26:00.001-07:002017-04-02T16:26:40.521-07:00SPRING BREAK 2017!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I STILL cannot believe we did this, but when we found out that Rosanna Pasanno from Nerdy Nummies was coming to Chicago the same weekend we would be there for Spring Break, the girls wanted to meet her SOO bad. SO, I drove 4 of the kids to Chicago 2 days early and when we got to the Wilton Store where she would be, I knew we were in it for the long haul! If I would have known that we would have to wait for 6 hours as I was parking the car, I would have come up with another cool plan, but I was prepared and brought TONS of snacks, toys and books for the kids. We were waiting outside seriously for 6 hours!!! It actually would have been kind of fun if it weren't for trying so hard to entertain Emery and Winnie. Fortunately, the girls had shown Emery some episodes of Nerdy Nummies before we left Wisconsin, and he LOVED them! That helped with convincing him that this was going to be worth it!<br />
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The kids went over every recipe of Ro's cookbook and talked about which one they wanted to bake the most! Ro is a kids youtube star and I actually like her videos. She comes up with cute recipes that the girls and I have baked a few times!<br />
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By hour 4, I was seriously thinking I was mom of the year because NOBODY else in that crazy line had little kids! Patience and bringing tons of supplies was the only way I stayed sane!<br />
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FINALLY, we got inside the Wilton store! The girls were freaking out when they saw Ro! Sunny even said, "I can't even breathe, I'm so excited!"<br />
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Even Emery was excited! He was such a good sport about this whole thing!<br />
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Ro was so great with my girls! She hugged them, talked to them about where they were from, signed their book and took lots of pics!<br />
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These girls were in HEAVEN!<br />
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Well, 6 hours was worth it after seeing how happy these girls were to meet someone they love! Once we were done with that CRAZY adventure, we drove to our hotel in Chicago, ordered room service and chilled! Holy Cow, what a crazy thing we had just done!<br />
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Regan and Riley were actually in Chicago when we were, but they were with the church youth group doing baptisms at the Chicago Temple. They went home after that, then took the train into Chicago after church on Sunday. We were on our own for the day waiting for them to join us so we went sight seeing to Dylans Candy Bar.<br />
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When Regan and Riley joined us, we got City Passes and did just about every tourist thing there is to do in Chicago for 2 days! We went to the Shed Aquarium Sky Deck, Science Museum, Art Institute, an awesome Park in the middle of Chicago, Ghiradeli Chocolate, Shake Shack, Jeni's Ice cream.<br />
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The sky deck was pretty cool to see the whole entire city!<br />
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Regan was SUPER scared of how high we were, but the kids loved it!<br />
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Even Winnie loved it!<br />
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Chicago reminded me of a mini New York City!<br />
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Emery Loved this mirror maze and actually was able to get me out of it, otherwise I would have been lost!<br />
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The science museum was fun and interactive.Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15839948711797319541noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4276508451357312387.post-3082217773218988482017-04-02T16:09:00.001-07:002017-04-02T16:09:45.726-07:00March 2017<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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RILEY turned 13 years old! What??? I have a teenager? NO WAY! Its a good thing he is such a great kid! I just can't believe that he has gotten so old! Last year, Riley's bday was on parent teacher conferences, this year, it was on solo and ensemble day! Sorry Ry guy! We had him open up his presents right before he went to the high school for solo and ensemble!<br />
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Riley's violin solo was Csardas by Monti and he ROCKED it! He got the highest ranking-a 1!<br />
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So proud of this kid! He has started to love playing the violin!<br />
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This is Riley's duet with a classmate. They played Concerto for 2 violins by Bach! They also received the highest ranking, a 1!<br />
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Our sweet friends, the Allenders from Ohio sent Riley these books since we are still heartbroken about losing Sweetie. SO awesome!<br />
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Riley requested brownies instead of a cake..here ya go buddy! Riley has done such a great job adapting to the 7th grade in Wisconsin! I remember moving to a new house and school right before 7th grade and it was SO hard, but he did it in the middle of the school year! He is so smart, so active in weight lifting, swimming and soon to be track! Riley was just called to be the Deacons quorum president in our ward and is taking that responsibility serious. He is about to start on his Eagle project as well! He is a good brother and we just are so grateful he is in our fam!<br />
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For the 3rd grade wax museum, Elle chose Helen Keller. She has just Loved learning about how amazing Helen Keller was as a deaf and blind person!<br />
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Winnie is SO funny! She loves to copy everything I do! She found a shirt of mine on the ground and my glasses, and put them on herself! That's actually super smart!<br />
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Winnie also has a fascination with the hermit crabs who are somehow still alive!<br />
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Winnie and I LOVE visiting Emery at his kindergarten class!<br />
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Riley got straight A's and was at the honor roll meeting! WAY to go Riley!!<br />
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We NEED to find a lock for the drink fridge! This girl LOVES to get ALL of the drinks out of it! Shopping girl is in her future!<br />
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Emery was SOOOOO excited to be the Star of the week! He LOVED being the line leader, the teachers helper, telling the kids about his family, showing off Winnie and playing his violin for the class! What an awesome kid he is! He is just seriously the CUTEST!<br />
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Just FYI, Wisconsin's "SPRING" is not spring! I am super jealous of Utah's beautiful Spring weather and beautiful blossom trees but we are trying to make the most of still wearing our coats!</div>
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Going to the kids classrooms is one of my favorite things to do! I love working with the small groups in each of their classes.<br />
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I have NO idea how this happens, but each day, this little lady gets cuter and cuter!!!<br />
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The kids LOVED Grammy's Valentines Day package!<br />
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The girls had a fun time at the daddy daughter date with Regan.<br />
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They carpooled with our friends, the Swalves.<br />
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We went to the American Family Dream Bank in downtown Madison and it was AWESOME!!! Amfam turned an old bank into an awesome place where you can write down your dream, learn about innovators, and do a family activity!<br />
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This little girl is starting to love books! Grammy gave her this cute window book.<br />
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the 100th day of school!!!<br />
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Valentines Day Tradition...10 things I love about you.<br />
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Sunny's hot air balloon Valentines Day box.<br />
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Valentines Day heart hair do.<br />
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Elle's Unicorn Valentine Box.<br />
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BEE my Valentine<br />
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Emery's Kindergarten Valentine Bag.<br />
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We had the missionaries from our church over for Valentines Day dinner. I tried to make it extra fancy<br />
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Regan leaves for work so early, so Riley improvised for Sunny at the Dads and Donuts Morning at her school.<br />
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This little girl has figured out how to get into trouble these last few weeks. Standing on the dishwasher is one of her favorite things to do.<br />
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Regan got me this cute mint Keurig machine that makes herbal tea and hot chocolate!<br />
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Riley and I drove 2 hours away for his first out of town Swim Meet. He did a great job!<br />
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I love date night and I am usually up for new adventures, but this one was WAY out of my comfort zone! See the rolled up pink stuff on the left side of the pic? That is frozen rolled up meet that you are supposed to put in the hot pot of broth. The fumes of the broth, the raw meet and feeling like I was going to faint or throw up made for an interesting date night! No more hot pots!<br />
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We had 1 week in February with AMAZING temperatures! We were outside for the first time enjoying our yard since moving to Wisconsin! Too bad it only lasted 1 week!<br />
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This little girl just wants to feed herself with NO help! Yogurt usually gets everywhere!!!<br />
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Even when it is good temps outside, Emery STILL wants to put all of his winter gear on to go to school! I told him he doesn't need to wear it all now that it isn't as cold and he said he loves how comfy his snow pants and scarf are! SO FUNNY!<br />
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Sunny was star of the week in the 5th grade! The class got to ask her any question and it was fun to see her spotlight!<br />
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Elle has been losing teeth like CRAZY! She is now missing her top 2 and bottom 2 teeth!<br />
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Sunny was Varuca in the 5th grade play willy wonka!<br />
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We found out that Sweetie had lymphoma and so telling the kids that she was very sick was so sad. I had a much harder time saying goodbye to Sweetie than I thought I would. She has been such a big part of our family for 4 years! The fact that she was only 4 years old was tragic as well. I cried for 2 days when we had to put her down. She was such a great dog and will be so missed!<br />
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We took the kids to A Dogs Purpose movie the day she passed away to help us all cope. We talked about our favorite memories of Sweetie on the car ride and it was actually very therapeutic.<br />
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Saying goodbye to the worlds best dog!<br />
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<br />Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15839948711797319541noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4276508451357312387.post-61192777622066290302017-02-23T07:44:00.002-08:002017-02-23T07:44:39.803-08:00Say it SisMy sisters and I have been working on a fun new project together. Since we are all spread apart from each other, my sister Ashley thought it would be fun for all of us to work together in this blog. It is called Say it Sis. We talk about anything from being organized to fashion, to being spiritual to recipes. It has been a lot of fun so far reading each others posts and coordinating together on it.<br />
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If you want to follow us, go to https://sayitsis.wordpress.com and instagram: sayitsis<br />
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Regan's brother Brady and his fam gave us this awesome gift for Christmas. A certificate to go to a jumping place and rock climbing! The kids had a ton of fun getting all of their energy out!!!!<br />
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Emery's Star Wars room is coming together!<br />
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This little unicorn girl has been doing so well learning her notes after violin practicing time!</div>
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Sunny had hermit crabs in her class, and when they were finished with them, there was a drawing to see who could take them home. She was SO confident she was going to be the lucky girl that she brought a mason jar to school to transport the crab home.<br />
Well, she came home SO sad because she did not win the hermit crab. She even gave her mason jar to a girl who did win but didn't know how to get it home! Such a sweet girl! Well, when Regan heard this tragic story, he said lets go to the pet store and get some hermit crabs!<br />
Ummm, we already have a pet-Sweetie! I didn't want more things to take care of, but we all went to the pet store and came home with not 1, but 3 hermit crabs! Say hello to Sharkie Super Hero, Pinky and Sparkle!<br />
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This little girl is coming up with the cutest little tricks every day! This is her surprised look! She makes this face every time she sees the hermit crabs. She is scared and excited all at the same time!<br />
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Winnie is an indépendant woman. She does NOT want anyone feeding her food. She loves feeding herself yogurt and getting it all over herself!<br />
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Elle lost tooth #3! WOW!!! She is SOO excited whenever a tooth comes out!<br />
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Riley had his first orchestra concert in Wisconsin and rocked it! I think he was the BEST one in the orchestra! Can you tell I am one proud momma?<br />
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The troops supporting Riley<br />
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This girl. I am obsessed with her!<br />
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Emery has the biggest imagination. At church, he can even come up with a game on the ground with crayons!<br />
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I go into Emery's classroom once a month to do centers and it is my favorite! My sweet friend Amy watches Winnie while I help at centers and go to lunch with my little guy. He is so independent at lunch.<br />
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I miss my little guy now that he is in every day kindergarten so I love these centers even more!<br />
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Getting all dressed up in his winter gear for recess! He said to me, "Mom, one time I missed all of recess because it took me so long to get all of my winter clothes on!" Oh my gosh, he is so cute!<br />
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We were able to volunteer at the Road home. A place where homeless people looking for work and shelter go to get back on their feet. We were in charge of playing with the kids while the parents took a load off. Lets just say Riley was a huge hit with the girls! He was covered in stickers! I got to hold the cutest little baby for 2 hours. I was in heaven.<br />
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Snuggling with these 2 on Sunday mornings is turning into my favorite thing to do all week! We wake up so early for school that just snuggling my littles since church is at 1:00 is the BEST!<br />
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<br />Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15839948711797319541noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4276508451357312387.post-6661113399338097132017-02-03T10:23:00.000-08:002017-02-03T10:23:31.552-08:00December 2016<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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His office is SOOOO cool! The person who designed the inside of Google designed the lunch room, game room and library for Amfam! WOW! We had so much fun exploring HQ!</div>
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Our FIRST Snow in Wisconsin! The kids had so much fun playing in it!!! Don't you just love that it takes SO much time and work to get everyone ready to go outside, just for them to be outside for 20 minutes?<br />
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We made our Traditional Gingerbread house!<br />
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This is what the younger kids look like going to the bus every morning at 6:55am!!! They put ALL of their snow clothes on because it is just so cold!!! Emery has really gotten to be more independent with getting all of his gear on because they teach them how to at school!<br />
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Visiting Elle's 3rd Grade Class!!!<br />
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Visiting Emery in his kindergarten class!<br />
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Elle LOVES Peighton Steffan. She even made her this poster for Peightons bball game!<br />
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Sunny and I trying on Costco glasses as we were helping Elle choose a new pair!<br />
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This sweet baby LOVES pomegranates!<br />
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My friend gave us tickets to see the Nutcracker! Wow! I hadn't seen the Nutcracker in YEARS, so to take the girls with me was so special and magical!<br />
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When we drove home, there was a big snow storm so the girls were dancing in it and pretending they were ballerinas in the nutcracker!<br />
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Winnie's first time in the snow! She didn't know how she felt about just sitting in it!<br />
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SNOW FUN!!!<br />
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Another pic of the kids all ready for the early morning bus...I can't help but laugh!<br />
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This dress was mine when I was a baby, and now Winnie is wearing it! My sister Ashley gave her the cute shawl!<br />
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My girls are just so beautiful!<br />
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Christmas Church Clothes!<br />
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Christmas Jammies!<br />
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Sunny had to interview someone at the Waunakee Chamber.<br />
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Matching Family Wisconsin Scarves!<br />
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Sunny made this blanket for Winnie...so sweet!<br />
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My awesome friend Lisa sent this to us. It is all of the zip codes in each state we have ever lived in. I was so impressed she found out all of these zip codes! What an awesome present!<br />
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Our little Winnie Girl in her Christmas jammies.<br />
December was a crazy month for us. We had just gotten everything settled and put away, kids were in full school mode, decorating for the holidays, my Mom had an accident which made me feel so bad I couldn't be there to help her, and being organized with Christmas presents! Through it all, we still had an amazing holiday season in our new home and just feel SO grateful for everything. We live in a beautiful home, Regan has a great new job, the kids are healthy and well, and the transition from ohio to Wisconsin has been just smooth! We are blessed!Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15839948711797319541noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4276508451357312387.post-86776228891054665992017-01-19T09:40:00.003-08:002017-01-19T09:40:50.200-08:00Winnie turns 1!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Okay, when your last baby turns 1, usually the parents are shocked and sad that their baby is growing up so fast! Knowing that Winnie is our last baby, I have tried so hard to really savor every moment with this sweet little baby. She has brought so much JOY and happiness into our lives and we are so blessed to have her in our lives.<br />
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Winnie is the BEST baby ever and she can put a smile on anyones face! She loves to snuggle, loves her siblings, loves toys, snacks and bottles. WOW...this has been the best year ever with this little girl<br />
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I think I may like this teepee more than Winnie...<br />
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Here is the Birthday cake she shared with the fam.<br />
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My sweet friend brought Winnie some Birthday Donuts and she ended up liking that better than her birthday cake!<br />
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Here is Baby Winnie's Birthday Cake all to herself! She did not go right into the cake, in fact she did not like getting messy when the frosting got on her fingers! Such a girly girl!<br />
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My sweet friend brought Winnie some Birthday Donuts and she ended up liking that better than her birthday cake! She loved this chocolate donut!<br />
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Winnie girl, you have brought your family SO much JOY and happiness! We are so grateful you chose to come to our family. We LOVE you so much and thank Heavenly Father every day for you!Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15839948711797319541noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4276508451357312387.post-68221908345798996662017-01-16T11:52:00.000-08:002017-01-16T11:52:09.653-08:00First Week in Wisconsin<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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We stayed in a few hotels on the way from Ohio to Wisconsin and Winnie loved getting out of the car and spreading out in the bed!<br />
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Our first day in Waunakee, we took school tours for all of the kids new schools! Sunny's intermediate school for grades 5 and 6 was amazing! It is a brand new school!<br />
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Emery was so excited about his locker in kindergarten! We even had the principal give us an awesome tour!<br />
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Emery's new kindergarten classroom!<br />
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Elle's new 3rd grade classroom!<br />
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Our first day in our new house, we were greeted by the most amazing gift basket from the Swalve family full of treats, food and drinks since we didn't have anything! WOW! What a way to feel welcomed to Waunakee! We slept in sleeping bags and blankets in the basement for the first 2 nights since our moving truck had no been delivered yet! What a fun adventure!<br />
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Since we came to Waunakee the day before Thanksgiving, we were planning on just going out to dinner for Thanksgiving, but a week before, Regan's new boss invited us over to have Thanksgiving with their family! WOW! This was one of our most favorite Thanksgivings ever! The Steffan kids were so kind to our kids and just made them all have such a fun time! I have never met teenagers so willing to play with little kids and so kind to them! My girls were just in love with Peighton the 15 year old, and my boys loved Mason the 17 year old and Cade the 12 year old! WOW! Such great kids!<br />
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The boys played a game of Football in the backyard! We were over at the Steffans house for 8 hours just having such a great time! The food was amazing and the company was even better! We felt so welcomed to Waunakee and so blessed to be able to go somewhere for Thanksgiving. Truly blessed.<br />
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We had a few other blessings while we were moving into our house! On Saturday when the moving truck came and it just was chaos at our house, one of Regans amfam friends asked if he could take our girls on an adventure with his family since he has 2 girls the same age while we were moving in. Such a huge blessing. The girls had SO Much fun rock climbing, bouncing, eating lunch and to the movies to see Moanna. WOW! Such a great thing to do since there was so much going on and so boring for the girls to just stay home.<br />
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The other was our friends that live around the corner from us, their daughter Taylor came to our house while I was unpacking box by box and just asked if she could help! What? She is 12! So I put her to work for 4 hours! She unpacked, sorted and organized all of the kids books in each room, organized the movies, unpacked a bunch of boxes and played with Winnie! What an amazing girl! She is so great!<br />
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Cardboard and markers are the perfect form of entertainment for this 8 year old! Riley's 6th grade teachers put together a cute bag of things for the kids to do and eat while we were traveling and moving in! These markers were very much used with love!<br />
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I told the moving guys to just leave the Christmas Tree in the family room instead of in the basement! Perfect way to make us feel at home!<br />
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Our sweet friends the Allenders sent a package for the kids with personalized notebooks for their first week of school! The blessings and love was so appreciated!<br />
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While I was unpacking, Regan took the boys to their first UW Football game! Regan even had to borrow his friends hat!<br />
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Okay, so everything sounds just perfect and lovely by now right? Well, lets just say it was until the first day of school. I wanted to be a good Mom and make sure that the kids all got to their classrooms okay so I drove them to school. Now I am a directionally challenged person, so when my phone wasn't working since the data was off and not working, I should have not relied on my sense of direction! I made it to the elementary school alright and delivered the little ones with no problem. Feeling pretty good at this point.<br />
THEN, I get in the car to take the older kids to the intermediate and middle school. This is where all of my problems began. I had written down instructions from Regan's phone of how to get there from the elementary building, but I took a wrong turn and I got SOOOOO lost! I was on a farm county road named Q and I lost it. Tears, tears and trying to hide my face so my kids wouldn't see how sad, frustrated and scared I was! I keep saying I was so sorry that they were probably going to be late for their first day at their new school to them and just started praying to Heavenly Father to get me to the schools!<br />
I still DO NOT know how I did it, but after driving around lost for 30 minutes, I found the Middle School and Riley got there RIGHT when the first bell rang. When I saw tears in his eyes as I was driving around lost, thats when I just lost it. I wanted the first day of school to be amazing and this was not helping that out at all! I felt lost and deserted and frustrated while I was lost. Why was my phone data not working? Why did we move? Why was I getting lost in a SMALL town? Why WHY WHY!<br />
I then miraculously got Sunny to her Intermediate school and then Winnie and I back home. I was a mess when I got home. I'm usually so put together and not emotional but this situation just put me a bad place! I called the ONLY person I knew and just told her how sad I was. Then, the painter came over to finish the family room built ins and that poor guy...he had no idea what to say or do when he saw me. I was a wreck! I was red faced and teary even as I talked to him!<br />
I got the kids to school, everything was fine, and as I locked myself and Winnie in my closet and just had a moment, I keep thinking, man, there are SO many other things to be upset about and this should not be one of them! We are healthy, Regan has a great job, we moved into a beautiful home...But at the time, I felt alone. No help and just wanting my kids to adjust well and have the best start to school!<br />
They all got home from school and had THE BEST first day of school! That made it all okay in the end! I think moving in the middle of the holidays, in the Winter and when there are family things going on far away from you {My Mom's accident}, all of these things made for a very hard transition for me. Much harder than Ohio was for me. Its been a month and a half and things have already looked up significantly! I have met neighbors, amfam friends and church members. I have gotten on a schedule for volunteering in the kids schools, I have unpacked everything and made this house our home, I got to see my Mom in Utah, and things are finally beginning to feel more like home.Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15839948711797319541noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4276508451357312387.post-81226828280851128462017-01-15T15:32:00.003-08:002017-01-15T15:32:41.396-08:00Our last week in OHIO!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I have worked with the young women in our church for a year and they were a pure JOY to work with! I am really going to miss these girls and especially the leaders that I worked with! This was the last activity I was able to do with the girls which was perfect because it was all about them celebrating the things they have accomplished this year!<br />
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We took a quick road trip to CINI to support our BYU COUGS! Winnie didn't want to look at the camera! Beautiful Fall day in November! Regan was gone all week in Wisconsin for a month while I was trying to sell the house, so going somewhere with him for the weekend was so great!<br />
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I knew that Thanksgiving was not going to be the best this year, so I made everything for Thanksgiving dinner and invited over our friends for a Friendsgiving! We had the Woodruff Family {who bought our house}, the Smith Family and the missionaries over!<br />
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After the house being on the market for 30 days, it SOLD!!! YEAH! I was about to go crazy!<br />
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Isn't it so crazy selling a house to your friends? The Woodruffs took a job with amfam in Ohio and bought our house!! SOOOO AWESOM!<br />
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Friendsgiving!<br />
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Going out to lunch with my favorite AMFAM agent! Lisa Diemer was just so great and took such great care of us!<br />
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We got a chance to vote in Ohio before we moved!<br />
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Riley got the honor roll and blazers best award right before we moved in 7th grade! So proud of him!<br />
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Elle's friends gave her the best send off ever! She will really miss her squad!<br />
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We will miss the worlds BEST NEIGHBORS EVER SOOOO MUCH! Dick and Carol Nagel will always be remembered and have a special place in our hearts! They were our grandparents while in OHIO and took such good care of us!<br />
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We went on one final date night with our favorite couple, the Bastiens! They are so much fun and we already miss them! WE went to my favorite OHIO restaurant, Local Roots and my favorite ice cream, Jenis!<br />
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Winnie LOVED their new puppies!!!<br />
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Our dear friends the Allenders had this sign made for us and put it up the week we were moving!<br />
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Emery's last day of kindergarten in OHIO!<br />
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Elle's last day in 3rd grade in Ohio with her BFF !!!<br />
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Elle's sweet class gave her a cute going away party!!!<br />
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Sunny's last day in 5th grade!<br />
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Emery's sweet kindergarten class!<br />
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We will miss the Allender Family so much! Our families bonded so quickly when we moved to Ohio and we will always be friends with them!!!<br />
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Lisa and Ron Allender are so awesome and we will so miss them!<br />
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Good Bye Ohio. You have been SOO good to us and we will always look back to you with the BEST Memories!Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15839948711797319541noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4276508451357312387.post-88408548772537967002017-01-11T11:52:00.003-08:002017-01-11T11:52:57.596-08:00Halloween 2016<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
STAR WARS was our family theme this Halloween! Everyone had a lot of fun with it!</div>
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Storm Trooper Emery<br />
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I love that Regan gets so into Halloween!<br />
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R2D2 and Yoda...May the Force be with you car decor for the trick or treat!<br />
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The cutest Yoda I have ever seen!<br />
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Elle as RAY<br />
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Beautiful Princess Leia/Sunny!<br />
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Darth Vedar as Riley. This was the first time ever that Riley was NOT excited about dressing up as a family theme character. SO SAD!<br />
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Why have we not carved pumpkins in the backyard before? Oh ya, because this is an abnormal fall! I mean, everyone is wearing shorts! WHAT? Best clean up pumpkin mess EVER!<br />
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The cutest PUMPKIN EVER!<br />
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I love that Elle is full on posing for this pumpkin pick and Riley is just looking at Winnie eating the mini pumpkin These kids of mine....LOVE!<br />
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Riley LOVES Studio C so he carved it on his pumpkin!<br />
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Sunny went with the happy pumpkin look<br />
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Elle went for the heart mouth look with marshmallow on her face since we made smores!<br />
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LOVE this pumpkin girl!<br />
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The Trick or Treaters and their light sabers!<br />
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I am so glad Regan was home for Halloween since it is his favorite holiday EVER! We binged watched Halloween Wars, went to the ward trunk or treat, went trick or treating, and had SO Much fun!Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15839948711797319541noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4276508451357312387.post-80498820888121134222017-01-11T11:39:00.002-08:002017-01-11T11:39:21.958-08:00OCTOBER 2016<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
School pictures FINALLY came back! Riley's came the first few weeks of school, but the elementary school was a lot slower! </div>
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Elle, my beautiful and sweet 3rd grader<br />
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Sunny, my confident, friendly 5th grader<br />
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Emery, my adorable and fun kindergartner<br />
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Winnie wanted to get in on the action too!<br />
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Ohio's weather in October was PERFECT!!!<br />
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I mean come on, this baby is wearing a summer outfit in October! I felt so blessed to have amazing, beautiful weather the last month of our Ohio experience!<br />
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This baby of mine LOVES playing the piano!<br />
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Emery LOVES having visitors at school, especially lunch!<br />
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She finally got to wear her snuggly mint jimmies! Oh this baby...she has all of our hearts!<br />
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The dog park with good old Sweetie! WE had some boys watch her for a month while we were selling our house, so we went to pick Sweetie up every weekend to play with her at the dog park! She was probably so confused!<br />
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My amazing friend, Cristie and I made wood block scrabble tiles together! Her husband thought we were crazy, or going to chop off a hand while we were doing it, but we were so proud of ourselves afterwards! They turned out to be SO cute and it was so much fun spending the day with my friend!<br />
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I was in charge of BOO Bingo for the kindergarten Halloween Party! These fake teeth were the prizes and were a hit with the kids!<br />
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Elle and her BFF, Alyssa<br />
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Sunny, and her BFF Siena<br />
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The kids had speaking parts and violin musical numbers for the primary program in October! They have 0 stage fright and I LOVE that!<br />
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October was a CRAZY month for us because Regan was in Wisconsin Sunday night through Friday night so we were on our own. We had the house clean 24/7, had so many activities and events to go to, but the weather was amazing and we banded together as a fam!<br />
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My 2 awesome photographer friends moved away, so it was up to me to take pics of Elle for her baptism. I still wish I was a great photographer, but this time of my life just has been so busy so hopefully one day I can learn more!<br />
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This little Elle of mine...she is just the sweetest little thing! She is kind, friendly, helpful, cute, playful, imaginative, loves to sing and dance, loves music, loves her siblings, and I am just so thankful to have her as my daughter. I feel so blessed that she is in our family because she always makes us so happy. I can't believe that this little girl of mine is 8 years old!Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15839948711797319541noreply@blogger.com0