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| On our way out to eat with a big portion of Jared's family. |
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| My offering was a last minute concoction of brussel sprouts and ground lamb. |
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| Then we went to James's mom's for round 2. |
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| I brought pepperoni spinach dip but it was completely uneaten because they had already eaten by the time we got there. So I brought it back home. |
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| Sahara and Canyon got to visit with their dad and Uncle Thomas. It was a pretty good Thanksgiving although we miss our out of state family! |
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| Coming back home from Sahara's one day before Halloween, we found a mama dog and her litter of four puppies who were about 8 weeks old wondering the street. Of course we could not just leave them there. So they got loaded into my car and taken to my house. |
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| Even mama dog came with us. |
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| Right away friends of Sahara and Jared took the little brindle pup. They named him Hank. |
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| Then we were left with these three and Mama. We decide to give them all planet names. That happened because one of the pups was 16 lb when the others were only six. So his name became Jupiter. |
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| This little guy was Pluto. |
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| And this one was Mercury. |
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| Jupiter just had our hearts from the beginning because he was so cuddly. |
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| Updated pictures of little Hank as he's growing through the last 3 or 4 weeks. |
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I thought it would be very hard to find Mama a home, which we were calling Venus. But somebody wanted her. Here she is, Baby Girl, at her new house. Mercury went to a girl who said he is adjusting well in her house. I love his little goatee.  A co-worker of mine took Pluto, and named him Ruffy. Ruffy has a nice new bed. |
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| Currently, Jupiter is 1 pound bigger than Hippie. |
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| So we're just down to Jupiter now. If he stayed this size I keep him for sure. |
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| He's back! |
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| All the families lined up in a semi circle in the hangar. Then the soldiers lined up outside and the doors opened. |
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| Jordan was on the first flight and his girlfriend and baby (who he met just 5 minutes earlier).... it's a long story....were there to greet him. |
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| We had to wait over an hour longer for Jared's flight. |
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| Everyone gave out the hugs. |
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| Then we went out for a late quick lunch as we had scheduled a return dinner in a few hours. |
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| After dinner, I finally got a picture with the dude. Another family welcome home lunch for the 2 of them at Nanny's tomorrow. |
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| One little sister, Hanna, happy to have her brothers back. Welcome back Jared and Jordan! |
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| Canyon had a STAR family dance/ party. |
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| He helped decorate this Nemo pumpkin. |
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| We got there so early, we weren't even sure it was a costume party. But eventually others showed up and before we knew it, the gym was packed. They had a haunted house too and it was pretty good. |
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| We headed out to eat and then to trunk or treat. |
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| There's a church downtown that has a huge trunk or treat extravaganza. |
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| Then Canyon hit the firehouse to get some more candy there. |
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| After the fire house we went to about 7 or 8 houses in the neighborhood. There was a lot of non participating houses this year. I think everybody took their kids to the trunk or treat in town. We were misted on pretty much the whole night, but it really started to rain after we were heading home so we got through just in time. |
