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I often question…

“How does time fly by so fast?”
But it’s because of the random things that are popping up in life right now, like–
–baking. Truman takes after his father who also loves to lick the batter off the mixing spoon…
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–constantly catching buggies, and sharing/comparing with the neighbors,
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–catching up with the spring things that have to be done, like purchasing/hauling 1 TON of wood pellets (for our stove), that had to be hauled under our patio, for next winter, (I only hauled half, then took a break, and Toph came home and finished it before I got a chance to finish it! What a good hubba!)
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–buying wood, nails, and etc. for finishing building the treehouse, and building it! (this was all Toph on this one, I don’t know how to build. I assist where needed, but really he has done a majority of it!) 2 Railings up, we are getting closer!!!
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–Taking care of a garden that is just beginning, ( I don’t do this one very well, thank goodness it is still raining, and these poor peas aren’t relying on me for their sole water needs!)
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–And most importantly raising two little mischievous, handsome, and wonderful boys!
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And when I look at those things, I think, man it’s not to bad being so busy!
**(It’s a good thing I didn’t list the other things that I don’t love so much like laundry, dishes, and vacuuming, because then I couldn’t be so optimistic about being so busy!)**

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The latest project…

Two of Tuckers passions coming together…Sewing and stuffed animals.
For AGES Tucker has wanted to make a stuffed animal out of an old sock, (we once read about Jessie making Benny one in the Box Car Children Books) and for ages he has been asking to do just that.
Forever ago, I made a banana butt sock monkey, out of old socks from a kit my brother Ryan gave me for Christmas many years ago, so basically new how to do it,

so the adventure has begun for Tuckers own Banana Butt.
We use a large needle (a good size for his little fingers, and easier for him to make straight stitches)–
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And short lengths of thread–
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This is often his facial expression while sewing, love it–
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Sewing the arm shut–
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Stay posted for a finished project, but for now, I am loving that he has taken ownership in this project and wants to do it by himself.

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Art time….

Truman has been really into watercoloring lately.
As I watch him, he is really into how ‘it moves so good’. I think that means that watercolor paints just flow as opposed to the rigidness of a pencil. He loves to paint, and here are some of his masterpieces, (they don’t scan so well!)
I don’t remember what this one is, oops! 🙂
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Truman Dad and Mom:
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Tucker and Truman:
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A face:
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While Truman was busy watercoloring, Tucker decided he wanted to do something he’d seen in the family fun magazine, trace a picture then color it. Of course, it was a robot picture that he chose, and we worked long and hard to produce this piece of art!
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Again, I love seeing my children in the creative process, and how they and their art changes every time. LOVE IT!

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Guests, Sandboxes, picnic lunches, + a Treehouse…

I love having guests, and it was so fun to Matt, Emily, Owen and Ava come down to hang out with us. And lately all Saturdays are dedicated to the Treehouses, so they were gracious guests who let us work on the treehouse….
Here it is when we started with three floor boards down:
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The boys didn’t care if the floor was done or not yet, they loved to be up there…
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and there was plenty of digging in the sand, here is Owen,
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And of course bug hunting
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We worked hard, sawing, putting in screws, and measuring the floor boards, all day long…
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I love this picture, we don’t have too many with both of us working on the treehouse.(thanks em)..
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One of the highlights of the day, was a trip to the hardware store with Owen, my boys could care less about trips with me–I’m just there mom, so I was thrilled that Owen wanted to go with me, a perk of being an aunt. We had a good time, and got some free popcorn, which is always a perk. 🙂
We came back and made a picnic,
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And then before they left, Toph, Tuck and Owen got a good game of the Jazz in…
If I am remembering right, Toph was Boozer,
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Tru was D-Will and
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Owen was A.K.
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Good times, please come again Huffs!
So, after they left, we went back to the treehouse, and worked, worked, worked…
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The boys stayed there with us, helping for a bit, as well as learning they can push large items down the slide,
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As well as each other,
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At about 6:00 PM, we finally finished the flooring, and took our first family photo in the treehouse, I was thinking it would be a fun tradition to take one there every year, but we’ll have to see if I can remember that!
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We were pretty excited, but tired, I was too tired to cook, and needed to pick up somethings from Maceys, so off we went for a chicken dinner and soft serve icecream…
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Here is a look at the finished flooring…
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We’re getting closer!!!

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Friday Night = Fabulous Night

So it’s not often that we all go out on the town for a night of crazy wildness with all four of us, so I had to document it!
We picked up Toph at the train station after work, the boys loved watching the trains come and go as we waited..
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We went to go meet up with with My dad, mom and bro–Eric, but they weren’t there yet, so I went shopping for some new jeans
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and a little something something for mothers day, (to be revealed more on Sunday)
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Then off to dinner, we went to Fazoli’s, ’cause the boys wanted pizza–My little boys that is.
While sitting there, I realized one of the things I loved about my classy momma is how she always where the perfect accessories, look at those fun bracelets,
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The crew,
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Sharing the drinks,
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Although Truman is getting bigger, he is still not to big to sit and eat on his daddy’s lap…
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The Handsome boys of my family,
Toph, Tru, Eric, Tuck
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Thanks for the delicious food grams and gramps,
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We came home, and told the boys they could watch a few minutes of the Jazz game, (and maybe stay up late enough to see our guests who should be arriving shortly) but when we went to turn it on, this is what happened,
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crying, because they were so tired and wanted to watch the entire game.
I just laughed, definely time for bed, they could see cousins in the morning~

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Birthday, Birthday, Birthdays!!!

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It seems the birthday season is upon us. On my side of the family we have recently celebrated the four birthdays during this past month, Mom, Dad, Ikey and Belle. Here are some pictures of the celebration party!
Blowing out the Candles: Belle, dad and mom
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Great Grandpa Greene and Mom
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Tru and Aunt Amy
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Amy and Belle
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Tiffany
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Tuck
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Toph and Tru
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The Great Hunsakers
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I think I love birthdays so much, because it is a time to be together as a family and celebrate the individuals who make up our family. I feel so blessed to be part of this group of people whom I love so much.

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Saturday Business

What a busy day we had on Saturday….I love a productive day, but I love being with family even more, lucky for me, my day included both! We began by building the joists for the treehouse,
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When we got a phone call from the Phillips saying they were on there way down to supervise the situation. Boy were we grateful to see them.
They showed us the right way to box in the tree,
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Played with they boys
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Fixed the truck (apparently it just needed a little bit of gas in the carberator, was all it needed, who knew?)
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Mom and I got the whole mess of our future stream/fountain, all clean and virutally leaf free,
Got some lumber for the flooring of the treehouse,
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while Toph and I purchased it, The Grandparents and Cat stopped by the lawn mower department
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Toph learned how to trim the apple tree (it’s not done yet…)
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They boys went and got their hair cut, and then got to take a trip for some new toys (and shirts) with Aunt Cat.
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Lastly they read robot stories, and played with Grandma and Grandpa, (you can also see by the boys dirty faces, we had spagetti for dinner 🙂 )
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(Can you tell you these boys are brothers? They look exactly the same after their haircuts)
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It was a busy day full of good people.
Thanks for all your help Cat, Grandma and Grandpa!

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Talent, Talent, Talent

So, yep, I have some talented boys. Grams and Gramps just got back from Hawaii, and with them they brought back the boys some Ukulele’s. They play them often, but on Saturday Morning Tuck pulled out Toph’s Guitar and asked for some lessons–the boys are constantly looking up to their father, and want to do anything that he does.
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After watching this video-
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You might agree that practice make perfect, and they might need a little more practice 🙂 But I will remember the smiles on their faces. These boys are lucky to have such a good, loving, patient father.

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Dangerous Things and Aunt Amy

Now please note: the two things listed in the title, have very little to do with each other, except when it has to do with my children. Read On—- Last weekend, while Christopher was out of town, my sister Amy saved my sanity. Not because the ratio of children to adult was exhausting, but because of the adventurous nature of children–especially Tucker.
Now before you read on, please watch this:
Yep. 5 Dangerous Things That You Should Let Your Children Do.
A few months ago Toph showed me this video, I found it interesting and pulled a few things from it…And I would like to think that, Tucker is going to be more confident, aware child because he is so adventurous, and I allow him (with in limits) to do this. So with that said, I want to write down what happened this last weekend, the fear I felt, and then the relief that I felt knowing that my child was going to be okay.
Friday after night, after helping some neighbors, Tucker proceeded home and immediately went to the trees. This is where he likes to be lately. I love the quote from the presentation, “Kids are always going to figure out how to do the most dangerous things they can, with whatever they are given.” That sums my Tucker up perfectly.
While in the tree he somehow lost his balance sending him falling out, head first, and therefore landing on his head. On the Cement Curbing. I heard a loud noise. I was an arms length away, trimming the tree and was there within seconds.
Having heard the noise. I was afraid it was his neck. Seeing him fall down on his head, it scared me. The wind was knocked out of him, and he couldn’ t move for a few seconds. Again, panic shot through my body. But after a few seconds, he caught his breath and the screaming and tears came out freely.
Luckily our neighbor is engaged to an EMT (or else we would have been to the ER for the second time in a little under a week), he came over looked him over, and since there was no blood coming out of the ears, eyes, nose and his eyes were dilating properly, he told me to wake him up every few hours that night, and watch for signs of concussion. If the symptoms were to occur, what was I going to do with Truman while I rushed to the ER in the middle of the night? I could take him with me….
Christopher was in Connecticut, my parents were in Hawaii, then I knew what to do. I knew Amy, my sister, would come down and help me. She has helped us in 3 other previous ER visits. Which she did this time too.
Amy rushed down to our house, and by that time the ice pack on the back of Tuckers head had releaved the swelling goose egg (That literally was the size of a goose egg!) to a much smaller egg, and he was very drowsy (normal again with a head trauma).
He went to sleep, and Amy helped me to wake him up every few hours through the night, and as you can now see, she helped save my sanity. Thanks again Amy, you’re the best, and I’m so blessed to be your sister.
And Tucker? Even though it’s been a week, he still has a little bump on his head, other than that, shows no signs of the ‘trauma’.
And as said in the video, I am hoping that this experience will have taught him more about the world around him. Gravity maybe?

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Tucker was tagged

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Tucker was tagged by his cousin Sophie, and since you hear my perspective constantly, I asked Toph to write this one!
Tucker loves to do things simply for the sake of doing them
He loves robots and bugs
He enjoying listening to books about robots even if he doesn’t understand everything
He does not like talking on the phone unless he is bored (in the car for example)
Scared of toilets when he was younger, Tucker still refers to loud ones as “monster potties”
Tucker wants to tag Dallin Paul, Patrick, Cathrine, and Aunt Amy.