tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17915662970759396812024-03-15T18:09:30.407-07:00run lucas runLovely Lindsayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16824437494448106263noreply@blogger.comBlogger400125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1791566297075939681.post-34168931721348436902016-12-29T15:50:00.001-08:002016-12-29T15:54:21.340-08:00Cheers to the newest year!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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Happy 2017, dear friends!</div>
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I can hardly believe that we've been holding strong</div>
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to this tradition for so many years.</div>
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I've created new cards to reflect this new twenty seventeen year. </div>
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You can purchase the file <a href="http://everylittlebit.bigcartel.com/product/new-years-resolution-kits" style="color: #999966; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">here.</span></a></div>
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Be sure to snap a picture and share it with me on Instagram!</div>
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I love the idea of us all setting new resolutions together.</div>
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Cheers!<br />
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UPDATE // happy <strong><span style="font-size: large;">2017</span></strong> dear friends!</div>
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I can hardly believe that we've been holding strong to this tradition for so many years.</div>
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I've created new cards to reflect this new twenty seventeen year. </div>
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Be sure to snap a picture and share it with me on Instagram! (@lovelylindsay)</div>
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I love the idea of us all setting new resolutions together.</div>
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Cheers!<br />
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This was just the project I needed to get feeling like my pre-baby self again.<br />
Just the project I needed to get this new fresh year off to a good start.<br />
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praying hard tonight.</div>
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xo,</div>
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but i've got so much to say.</div>
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Lovely Lindsayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16824437494448106263noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1791566297075939681.post-80020276318192839972014-03-05T23:19:00.000-08:002014-03-05T23:25:27.483-08:00reflect. resolve.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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the boys are all sleeping. </div>
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despite the '<i>sleep in your own bed</i>' sticker chart we've implemented this week:</div>
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-charlie crashed in our bed at 7:30.</div>
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-after being sent back to bed several times, ten drinks of water, a little <i>box car children, </i>four bathroom trips and the threat of being sent to sleep outside in the rain... gavin and lucas are fast asleep <i>together</i> in lukey's bed. </div>
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<i>and here i am.</i></div>
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i'm listening to my bob dylan pandora station. tonight the stars have played the band, simon and arty g, a little janis, and some van morrison. <i>it's been good. </i></div>
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i sat on the couch in my <i>finally quiet</i> and did some important thinking.</div>
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the weather here is maddening. it's dreary. and dark. and cloudy. and i fear the sun will never come. i will never get a sunny walk outside <i>again.</i> which i am craving more than any greasy/sweet/pickled pregnancy food. i need a sunny walk or i will die. </div>
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i clearly need to make some changes.</div>
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this pregnancy has been different. hard in different ways. and rather than sinking into the hard parts and excusing them by calling them symptoms - i'm going to make a few changes.</div>
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tonight i figured out what those would be with clarity.</div>
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1. something spiritual. meditate, pray, read, listen - <i>something.</i></div>
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<i>2. </i>some kind of exercise. i will not wait any longer for the perfect day. </div>
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3. no more candy. specifically, no more sour patch kids. </div>
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4. wake up with the school boys and <i>stay up.</i> an afternoon nap is <i>a-ok.</i> </div>
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5. something for baby. write her a letter, make us a special lunch, try-on names</div>
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6. news fast. specifically - <i>no facebook. </i></div>
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i was just scrolling through these blog pages and realized how good i'd been at documenting the important moments in our lives over the years. what a great collection this is of our lives here in this little house. </div>
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and then i noticed how much i've missed over the last um... <i>really... </i>a year or so. i thought of gathering up photo's and snapping a few to catch up. like charlie's first day of sunbeams... and gavin's five birthday. the announcement of baby or the day we got out the paints and painted the entire roll of art paper. all things that have happened. but not been properly documented <i>here</i>.</div>
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i could say that it's because instagram has done the documenting for me. or that my big girl camera is sick. that i spent the first trimester of this pregnancy napping <i>or that i'm so over blogging. </i>but if i'm totally honest,<i> </i>twenty-thirteen was <i>hard</i>. <b>and the truth is that i just haven't required much of myself lately.</b> the missing months here are an accurate depiction of how i've lived them. the days begin and the days end and some stuff happens in between. we're all dressed, fed and happy for the most part. but beyond that i think i've sorta - <i>checked out. </i>the familiar winter doldrum. i'll just keep treading water and slowly pull myself up for a good deep breath of spring air here soon. </div>
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this documenting.</div>
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and i'm going to begin again.</div>
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i'm just now pulling together our classroom valentine's for the year. this is my <i>faaaavorite</i> holiday and i just can't seem to muster up the energy to pull-off anything super creative. the boys and i will be totally relying on printables that i've found around the web.</div>
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we fell in love with the idea <a href="http://www.lilsugar.com/photo-gallery/27420883/Whoopee-Valentine-Day-Card/">here</a> and decided to work up one of our own. One that was a <i>little</i> simpler and didn't use up so much of our black printer ink.</div>
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Lovely Lindsayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16824437494448106263noreply@blogger.com19tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1791566297075939681.post-59084726246775886312014-02-03T22:01:00.002-08:002014-02-04T15:01:44.189-08:00heart, beat.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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tonight i found this:</div>
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we <i>want</i> her here.</div>
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we <i>need</i> her here.</div>
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on my knees.</div>
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<i>come back.</i></div>
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it's time to <i>come back.</i></div>
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i cried. i begged.</div>
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she is made of the earth.</div>
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the red dirt of sedona.</div>
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the salt of the california tide.</div>
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she is the giant sequoias of the redwood forest.</div>
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she is the concert echo on a late night in park city.</div>
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<i>i believe she teetered and then decided to stay</i></div>
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i am still so full.</div>
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it's a funny thing. to be a family. <i>of</i> and <i>on</i> our very own.</div>
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to sit at the thanksgiving dinner table <i>together...</i> and <i>alone</i>. </div>
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a feast of turkey and cranberries and stuffing and tradition.</div>
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loving each other <i>the most</i></div>
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and missing the rest of those we belong to - the worst.</div>
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but even still... this was one of the good ones. </div>
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one of the <i>best</i> ones.</div>
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today started out with it's regular sunday expectations. and for the most part everything went seemingly smooth. sunday-<i>ing</i> has definitely become a team sport in this household. and every sunday that andrey helps me to round up the khaki's and button downs - i thank my lucky stars that our sundays have begun to look like this consistantly.</div>
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lucas bore his testimony in sacrament meeting today. </div>
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he tugged on my shirt and said:</div>
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and to make sure that he had something in his heart that he needed to say. </div>
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his little foot started to twitch and he fumbled with his tie for a minute. </div>
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and then he stood and made his way up to the pulpit. </div>
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his hand trembled holding the microphone - his lip quivered a bit. </div>
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he spoke truth and wise old-soul words.</div>
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loud and clear with eyes focused on us. </div>
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then proudly found his spot back on our pew.</div>
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i could feel his heart chugging.</div>
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andrey and i were married in a little chapel downtown. and those first few years of sundays together looked alot like a cuppa-starbucks, crawl back in bed, and football until the sun went down. they were dreamy. and snuggly (not gonna lie) but they were also a bit empty. and more often than not began to feel like just an extra day thrown into the mix of other days that felt the same. </div>
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then came lucas. lucas jude. with his thump-thumping heartbeat that was bigger than anything else that i'd ever known. we'd wished for him for years. and in what would be the last few months of yearning and waiting for some/any sign of him - reminded me about prayer.<br />
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i began to find myself on my knees more and more after that.</div>
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which eventually found me feeling extra brave on the back-row-metal-seats.<br />
just me and my squirmy two year old.<br />
those were hard days.<br />
heart-achey days.<br />
what am trying to do ??? days.<br />
but we just kept on <i>suiting up and showing up</i> and soon we'd even add a squirmier gavin west to our sunday bench.</div>
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charlie grey was born on the sunday of the primary program nearly three years ago to this day. and lucas had an important part to say in the lineup of little ones. he'd been practicing. a lot. enough so that we knew he'd be so disappointed to miss it. and so as i snuggled <a href="http://runlucasrun.blogspot.com/2011/01/birth-story.html">my fresh little armful of baby boy</a> <i>only hours old, </i>andrey scurried around the house to get the other boys into their handsome clothes. then he climbed into his slacks and shiny shoes, too.</div>
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he's been sunday-<i>ing</i> with me ever since. </div>
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we've hosted several missionaries in our home over the years. for dinner, for lessons... <i>always</i> welcome. the boys <i>adore</i> them. and in a special holding place in my heart i've always felt that there will someday be a missionary meant <i>just</i> for andrey... </div>
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Lovely Lindsayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16824437494448106263noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1791566297075939681.post-55018215556878202492013-09-17T13:54:00.001-07:002013-09-17T13:54:27.672-07:00first day: pre-k<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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i watched him from the rear-view mirror on the way to class that first day.</div>
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i am so glad that he is mine. </div>
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lucas is on to week two of<i> back-to-school</i> and was soooo looking forward to getting his library card today. he'd scoped out the <i>star wars</i> section in the school library last week and was anxious to check-out ALL OF THEM. and today gavin and i went to explore his pre-school, meet with his teachers, learn about his new friends and find the hook with his name on it where he'll be hanging his elephant back-pack. </div>
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he's <i>"excited! not nervous!"</i> </div>
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last monday we had our annual <i>back-to-school</i> sundae bar. it's officially tradition. and officially my favorite.<i> </i>i love that it's simple. that i can dress it up as much as i'd like to <i>- or not. </i>i love that they remember that it's coming and look forward to it just as much as i do. </div>
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we filled our <a href="http://www.darbysmart.com/"><i>darby smart</i></a> dino jars with the same ingredients we've used <a href="http://runlucasrun.blogspot.com/2012/08/kind-happy-brave-obey-love.html">years before</a>. kindness, bravery, obedience, happiness and last but certainly not least... we sprinkled the tops with a whole lotta love. my favorite part of the whole night is letting andrey tell them the things he wishes for them this school year and most importantly how much they matter to us. it was especially exciting that we were celebrating gavin this time around, too. </div>
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i must tell you that the hour before we sat down at the table together <i>was nuts.</i> they were whiney and grouchy and teasing each other. there were a few time-out's and a "<i>get to your room!</i>" and really - i was about to call the entire evening off. but isn't that how it always goes?!</div>
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we pulled it together. </div>
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and i'm so glad. because we had a magical night at our kitchen table. listening to their little/big boy thoughts and worries, while we shared our hearts and sweet treats. there was even a little brotherly advice from lucas jude to go around.</div>
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i <i>love</i> these boys.<br />
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he was too nervous to eat breakfast. </div>
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and mostly worried that he might get homesick during the day.</div>
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so we safety-pinned a picture of our family to a secret spot inside his back-pack and headed out the door. </div>
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a <i>get-out-your-sparklers-it's-independence-day</i> pie.</div>
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a strawberry rhubarb pie. </div>
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it was a blue ribbon beauty.</div>
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just as the fireworks show began</div>
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<i>that</i> or i'm afraid that once i start to type... i won't be able to stop.</div>
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that it will just <i>pour</i> out of my heart and guts.</div>
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that would bring so much relief.</div>
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that day - <i>that</i> rain.</div>
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it was so heavy.</div>
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it pounded, pounded, pounded down.</div>
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and i stood on our porch and i watched those boys.</div>
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fearless and happy. really truly happy.</div>
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and i cried big <i>hot and heavy</i> tears.</div>
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and my heart thundered and pounded and swelled and ached.</div>
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and i <i>never ever</i> <i>ever</i> want to forget it. </div>
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Lovely Lindsayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16824437494448106263noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1791566297075939681.post-38021324285970900292013-05-01T21:48:00.000-07:002013-09-04T10:22:41.592-07:00tradition<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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there's nothing quite like...</div>
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a fresh new month</div>
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to cure a bad case of the blues.</div>
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dear may, </div>
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please be good to us. </div>
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love, lindsay<br />
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Lovely Lindsayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16824437494448106263noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1791566297075939681.post-33985445081304693362013-04-23T23:27:00.003-07:002013-04-23T23:27:34.442-07:00all i need.<br />
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Lovely Lindsayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16824437494448106263noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1791566297075939681.post-70922068494406042082013-04-19T11:22:00.003-07:002017-07-06T23:46:01.869-07:00natalie.while in my early twenties and going through a very dark and confusing time<br />
i found myself living back at my parents home after trying a go at life on my own.<br />
a boomerang child. <i>that's me</i>.<br />
i like to say it more like i tried to leave my mother's nest a little too early.<br />
and some might tell you that i never really left the nest again after that.<br />
even though <i>now</i> i live hundreds of miles away.<br />
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i remember a particularly difficult day.<br />
i'd been arguing with my dad.<br />
and somehow in the heavy anger and behind a few slammed doors and loud words,<br />
found myself out in my car.<br />
my sister, natalie ran after me.<br />
down the front steps and under the cherry tree we'd climbed as littles and sat herself right down in the passenger seat next me.<br />
<i>she wouldn't leave me</i>.<br />
i remember that i had to coax her back into the house so that i could drive away...<br />
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there are five years between me and the day she was born.<br />
my<i> first</i> sister.<br />
and no one was happier on the day she was born than i was.<br />
she was <i>my</i> baby.<br />
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she is the prettiest one.<br />
with the longest legs. and beautiful hands.<br />
with her <i>always</i> tan skin and swooping lashes.<br />
she is fearless and adventurous and so many things that i wish that i was.<br />
she is brave.<br />
and stronger than you'd think.<br />
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and while her story isn't mine to tell... i need her to know that i love her.<br />
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today i am holding the space for you.<br />
i am praying.<br />
my heart is heavy and i am breathing deep.<br />
i want to go to you.<br />
to hold you.<br />
and plop right down next to you and <i>never</i> leave.<br />
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i want you to help me with a garden.<br />
i want a mix cd of good songs from you.<br />
i want you to make me something yummy.<br />
i want to take our babies to the park.<br />
i want more days with you. more <i>good</i> days.<br />
i want to be able to tell you i'm scared.<br />
that i am worried.<br />
that i need you.<br />
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photography by <a href="http://www.alishastamper.com/">alisha stamper </a><br />
lyric by the grateful dead<br />
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<br />Lovely Lindsayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16824437494448106263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1791566297075939681.post-21004495703963444202013-04-17T10:46:00.000-07:002014-09-13T22:27:43.421-07:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><i>... and i will hold on with all of my might</i></span></i></div>
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<i>mumford and sons | <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlxZVp0aLW0">ghosts that we knew</a></i></div>
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i keep a good running list of <i>things </i>i'm wishing for. <br />
<i>yoooooou know</i> - for special occasions. </div>
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these are the ones that have made the official <i>birthday </i>wish list.</div>
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someone please tell my husband. wink!</div>
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Lovely Lindsayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16824437494448106263noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1791566297075939681.post-3206082717581002182013-02-18T09:55:00.002-08:002013-02-18T10:01:20.923-08:00sweetheart.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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i know that valentines day is soooo yesterday and that easter goodies are already stocked on the shelves but i'm still feeling all lovey. it's one of my favorites. maybe even <i>THE</i> favorite holiday of mine. and i'm not quite ready to pack it up just yet.</div>
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-the year my first real highschool boyfriend met me at lunch hour with a long stem <i>yellow rose</i> (red roses were for conformists) and a mixed tape. it may or may not have included a <i>selena</i> song.</div>
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-the year my entire group of friends <i>walked </i>to mcdonalds for candlelit big mac's and some fancy date night bowling at the alley next door.</div>
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-the year my dad came home from work with with a handful of roses - one for each of his four daughters. along with a book he'd selected just for me and filled the front cover with fatherly advice and love.</div>
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-the year my boyfriend (<i>a different one</i>) rode a greyhound bus from college to deliver me flowers three states away. so irresponsible...</div>
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-the year andrey and i agreed to only exchange love notes. and ended up having our first real fight over egg drop soup and gross chinese food. the argument was about the food we'd be serving (or not serving) at our wedding. i left him in the pleather booth by himself. he met me out in the car with his love note... and we still got married a month later.</div>
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-the year i was <i>very</i> pregnant with our first baby and my love brought me home a box of handpicked chocolates (heavy on the salted caramels) a heart shaped pizza and the movie <i>elizabethtown. </i><i> </i></div>
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<i style="color: black;">-</i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;">the year i took a pregnancy test and cried over my molten chocolate lava cake about the addition of a third babe so soon after the second.</span></div>
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-and this year. the year we sat on the living room floor and said something we loved about eachother. my <i>four</i> handsome valentines, all of whom are <i>very</i> aware that this is <i>very</i> much a girly holiday... showered me with kisses and sweet nothings.</div>
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for months we had been asking gavin if he was four yet to which he'd answer, </div>
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<i>nooooooo! i'm still threeee!</i></div>
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his uncle jeff had been asking for weeks if he could sing him <i>happy birthday</i> - to which gavin would put his hands up to his ears and give a stern glare (much like <a href="http://runlucasrun.blogspot.com/2013/01/today-was-big-day-boy-two-started.html">this</a> one...) even talks of parties and cakes and presents were still followed by crocodile tears and cries of "<i>i don't want to grow bigger</i>!" i was almost certain that we shouldn't even plan a party for a day he didn't seem to be looking forward to. </div>
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a few days before the dreaded <i>birthday</i> he started to come around. he decided on a store bought <a href="http://instagram.com/p/VGFIPFJXES/">diego cake</a>, made a simple gavin wish list and picked a few of his best friends to go on a little adventure with us. turning four was a go after all!</div>
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lucas and i stayed up late the night before to <a href="http://instagram.com/p/VE_4ceJXKh/">decorate</a> the house while he slept. we were soooo excited! and to everyone's surprise gavin woke up on tuesday morning the happiest four year old <i>ever</i>. while still rubbing his sleepy eyes he squealed, <i>is it today? am i four... today?!</i> followed by a long sigh and a whispered <i>finally</i>. </div>
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apparently he just didn't want to turn four until he really had to. </div>
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my gavin is full of true character and i love him to bits.</div>
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get ready for a gazillion pictures of <i>gavi-turns-four</i> because it was quite possibly my happiest of mothering days. </div>
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thanks to my dad we had a connection at a local airport for private planes and jets. gavin invited only his three closest friends - which in the end made all the difference. they were comfortable with each other and truly <i>best friends</i>. we were all able to happily interact without me feeling craaaaazy. lucas was still at school and charlie was at his cousins so it was really a day just for gavin. we loaded up into my mini-van and headed out on our adventure.<br />
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we were given a top secret tour of the place. we saw all kinds of planes! we saw planes on the runway. planes starting their engines. planes taking off! we saw planes in the shop. and plane parts and pieces. airplane mechanics and airplane pilots. they each took a turn in the cockpit and opening the GIANT hanger door. we were in little boy heaven. and the boys were so good! and asked the best questions! </div>
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<i>it was magic.</i></div>
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we headed back home a mini-van full of the happiest little boys. i overheard cody tell oliver, <i>good thing we didn't fly away on a real adventure. my mom would've missed me.</i> </div>
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back at the house we partied. we sang <i>haaaaaappy birthday to yoooooooou! </i>and celebrated with<i> </i>perfectly frosted cupcakes and balloons. his friends gave him the best gifts. things they knew that gavin would <i>really</i> love. and i felt so grateful for this circle of sweet boys. crossing my fingers that they stay bff's forever. </div>
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my <a href="http://runlucasrun.blogspot.com/2009/03/oh-yes-sweet-darlin-so-glad-you-are.html">baby</a> is four. and four is best. i think i'll keep him this way. no more <i>growing bigger</i>, ok gavi?</div>
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i taught the lesson in our <a href="https://www.lds.org/callings/relief-society?lang=eng">relief society</a> class this past sunday afternoon. the topic was my choice and finally on saturday afternoon (<i>of course)</i> after months of pondering and praying... came to this:<br />
<i>weak things become strong through him. </i><br />
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i have been learning to teach from the spirit and less + less from the manual and prepared outlines. the magic that happened during that one hour with my <i>sisters </i>was amazing.<br />
we discussed.<br />
we taught each other.<br />
and we ran out of time.<br />
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"...if we are truly humble, meek, and reachable in the face of our weakness and we don't just give up... because we don't know how to do it or it isn't a reasonable priority today. we don't stop trying to improve just because last year's new year's resolutions didn't make it to february. we keep working on our endless list: the less-than-stellar sunday school lessons, our impatience with our children, our lackluster prayers, our fifteen extra pounds, our irritability with coworkers, our messy garage, and all our other human weaknesses. and as we do so we are open to learning, willing to prioritize and to be as prayerful, patient, and honest with ourselves and others as we know how to be. <br />
...and when we are not, we try again, confident in God's love and grace..."<br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">- from </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><i><a href="http://deseretbook.com/Weakness-Not-Sin-Liberating-Distinction-Awakens-Our-Strengths-Wendy-Ulrich/i/5021780">Weakness is Not Sin</a></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"> by Wendy Ulrich</span><br />
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we talked about our own weaknesses. and then we talked about how we overcome them. how they bring us closer to the lord. how sometimes we just need to shift our focus a little bit and how sometimes we even find strength in them...<br />
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oh, and read that book. it's good<i>. </i>Lovely Lindsayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16824437494448106263noreply@blogger.com5