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Neglecting Things

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We have again been negligent in our writing, so here it goes: Mike and Alison celebrated their 17 anniversary - Alison found a website where people post about the gluten free restaurants that they have discovered and she told Mike about a place that makes gluten free Churros. They were very good, so we will definitely try them out again. Mike also took a few days off since he had filled up his PTO and was in danger of losing it. He ended up building a fence during the time off, so now our house has a fence on the south side. Hopefully it will stop all the kids bikes from getting stolen so much. That being said, Timmy and Sara regularly leave bikes outside of the fence, so it seems like it most likely will not work until they actually avail themselves of the protection that the fence would offer. We also went to the county health office and everyone got covid shots and flu shots except for Sara, so here's hoping that we don't all get sick this year. There were no side effects t...
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The Wild Potatoes

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Over the last two weeks Rea and Sara have been having a lot of rehearsals for their play. They seem to be having fun, and are enjoying the new dance routines a lot. Mike and the boys went to Brighton Meadows again for a father and son's campout. They had fun and picked more elderberries. Everyone played Mafia in the evening, and overall it was a very fun campout. Mike made more elderberry syrup out of them, so we have quite a bit now. Alison has been buying scooters on KSL to help her, Rea, and Timmy to get from the tracks station to their co-op on Thursdays. She found three, so they are set for this year. We celebrated Labor day by inviting Caitlin and the kids over. The adults talked while the kids played. We had "That Soup" (a.k.a. Amy's Taco Soup (we call it "That Soup" since we make it so often, and Mike sometimes mixes it up with a different taco sour recipe that we also sometimes make)) for lunch, and a big pile of tater tots, broccoli, and breaded an...
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Yet another two weeks

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Over the last two weeks we have had multiple sick people in our house. Timmy is mostly recovered, however, Gideon got sick and now Rea and Elsa are sick too. This is basically a constant thing I guess - someone is always sick. I suppose that it means that we are getting our immune systems stronger against all sorts of things. Last weekend we went on a camping trip with the Plastows. They planned it and invited us, and it was really fun. We went up to a church owned camp ground and we played games and played in the pond that they had. There were a lot of water crafts and a zipline. We ended up going home a little early to go to Chauncy's birthday party (it was cancelled on account of sickness, but we didn't know that at the time. One thing that Mike did while up there was to pick a bunch of elderberries and when we got home he made them into a elderberry syrup. With all of the sick people in the family it has come in handy. The stuff is really good to help with coughing. Thursda...
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Broken Legs

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Rea and Sara had call backs this week, and they both got into the cast, so apparently they were wanted again. In November they will be playing in the Frightmare before Christmas again. Rea wanted to add that she got picked for Sharona (one of the vampire daughters of Dracula), which is a more important role than last year. We are excited! We also made more progress on the bench/couch in the front room- it is entirely useable now, but it still needs some finishing touches before it is all the way done.  Mike found a trumpet at the DI the other day and it was only $50, so he spent birthday money on it (thanks grand parents!) and now he is trying to remember how to play. Timmy asked him to play the Dung Defender theme from Hollow Knight, and within a day he was able to play it so he hasn't forgotten everything and lost all of his embouchure. That being said it is very hard for him to hit the high notes and he doesn't remember how to read the music anymore so it will be a job to b...
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Nages, nages, petit poisson

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Alison wrote a post last week and then asked Mike to add images to it, however, Mike completely forgot to do that so this post is now a two-week post. Here is the post from last week: We had one more week of vacation with Andy and Katie, which was great, and then this week we're trying to get back to a normal schedule.  It wasn't quite normal, because Réa was at FSY this week. She had a wonderful time! She went with her friends Emma and Sara Waters to Snow College. Her favorite part was the classes; they had seminary teachers from all over Utah come and teach, and you got to choose which class to go to each hour. We all missed her a lot, but we're glad it was so great.  Our neighbor girls who we've been taking to the park all summer started a class in the mornings, so it's just us now. This was the last week of school lunches, too; summer is winding down! :( Alison is ALMOST ready for the new school year, lol. We got a dumpster Wednesday and Mike and the boys worked...
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A Double Neapolitan Birthday

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Last week Andy and family came in to town. Everyday after Mike's got off of work we went over to Grandma Julie's house and spend time with them. Last week Sara and Elsa also went to the doctor's office and got their ears pierced. The earrings that they picked out are very cute, however, the doctor ended up putting the wrong earring in the wrong person's ears so they are currently wearing each other's earrings.  The doctor was very nice and did a very good job, and Elsa said it didn't hurt. They are both being very good at cleaning their ears every day so here's hoping that they do not get infected. Starting on Friday of last week Alison was coming down with something. She slept all day and also on Saturday. Fortunately she got over it fairly quickly so it wasn't one of those multi-week sicknesses. Gideon got the sickness on Sunday and it followed a similar pattern for him, and then Wednesday Rea got the sickness, so it obviously was one that moved. On Mo...
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A First Hand Account of Timmy's Battles

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Alison took the kids to the park pretty much every day this week. They have been enjoying the pool and spending time out of doors. They also got physical library cards, so they have been enjoying checking out books on their own. Mike got Friday off this week to celebrate the fourth of July. We went shopping and did things together. Tim and Mike played "Planet Crafter", and also went food shopping for Saturdays dinner. Alison, Mike, and the girls went to the thrift store. Elsa played with the Wilson's.  On Saturday we went to some garage sales and then had everyone come over for the traditional Brown family firework celebration, however, this year the mayor declared a city wide firework ban (because the fire danger was very high). Because of this Alison came up with a wide array of firework adjacent activities such as: ooblek with pop rocks in it, blowing colored bubble snakes, shooting Redcoats with silly string, slingshot launched parachutes, confetti poppers, a dry ice ...
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