McPhie Moments

Our Last weekend before we move AGAIN!

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We decided to take a drive to the coast our last Saturday in Oregon. We hiked around the massive anchient trees on our way. It was as much fun as the coast was. The kids wanted walk around and climb every huge tree we came across.

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The kids just loved the red wood forest!

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Climbing Todd. This is the base of an uprooted tree, mind you!!!!

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Exploring the tide pools on the Oregon coast. Bueatiful!

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Hunter and Todd are right under this huge wave looking for crabs and creatures in the tide pools. It looks like they are closer to the waves then they are. It made me yell for them to look out though!

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Chasing the waves.

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What an absolutely bueatiful place and a great way to spend our last weekend in Oregon. Next weekend we'll be moving again. Utah bound then Iowa for the big Graduation!!!!!!!!!!!!! Hip Hip HURRAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Chillen on the beach.

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Sunset on the coast!

Super bowl weekend

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We had a GREAT weekend vacation in California!

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Such sweet buds!

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On our little trip to California.
Hunter absolutely loved picking Fruit off the trees! The lemons smelled amazing! He picked every grapefruit the butterfly net could reach. (Which was most of them!) Thanks Readings for letting us bring a bunch home!

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We went to visit The Readings for a weekend and LOVED California!!!!!!!!! Thanks for showing us such a great time Logan and Krista!

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It was SO good to see Logan and Krista again! The kid's had non-stop fun the whole time and told us they didn't want to leave, that they wanted to stay and live with Camryn and Addison!

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Making smores and enjoying the wonderful California evening!
It was a perfect all weekend.

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The boys.

Back view of our house

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That greenish shed, across the river, is in back of our house. We wanted to check out the other side and show how close we are to the Rogue river.

Hunter's little preschool on OR

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Hunter's hibernation pajama day at preschool.

Elise's 3rd Birthday

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Elise wanted a Kungfu Panda birthday #3.

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The kids did surprisingly well eating with chopsticks!

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Oriental lanturn.

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The cake.

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kungfu Panda Birthday girl and cake.

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As a little girl I always wanted a cabbage patch premee baby doll. So I finally got one! Hurray! (Well, grandma Libby and Grandpa Jerry got Elise one -close enough!) This is our technique to keep Elise from rolling out of her bed. If you stack all her favorite toys on the edge she doesn't roll off.

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Playing with Christmas makeup.

Christmas

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Christmas Eve

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DeAndra England's Dad is playing Santa.

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T'was the night before Christmas.

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Precious Elise!

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Handsome Hunter!

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Merry Christmas! THANKS to DeAndra's Family for the coushy couch and Chair!

Family pictures by the Rogue river

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We love living by the Rogue river in Gold Hill, Oregon. What a bueatiful place! Family pictures and feeding the ducks.

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The boys finding creatures.

We're in Oregon!

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Crater Lake National forest

The Big Move

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Hunter really handled this big rig well. Grandpa's a great coach!
Did we move to Mars...

The moon....

Where?

Clinic Abroad -Madagascar

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Todd's layover in Paris.
Madagascar! He got all the kids to make funny faces for the camera. They had a lot of fun with the children there.

They got to see some Lemurs up close.

Cute kid.
Todd really had a good experience there and accomplished all his adjusting numbers. But was glad to be heading home.

Halloween

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Trick-r-treating at Palmer.
Elise didn't feel so good so she didn't get as dolled up as planned.

Indiana Jones won "Most Original" for his age group at the Palmer costume party.
Note the Spider on his hat and the snake climbing up his boot.
Indies SO COOL!

There's the pretty princess! SO CUTE!
She would have won an award if I was the judge and had she dressed up for the contest.

Family in Columbus Sept. 08

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At Brooke's (Sis-in-law) birthday Party.
Dad and Mom enjoying their Grand-kids. My older bro. Jason and my Mom.At Baby Mckenna's Blessing party.

2 of my Bro's (Jase and Jed) with Todd. Me, Brooke, Jared, JasonElise with cousins her age.Hunter doing stunts.

Hanging with the older sweet cousins.

Dayton Air Museum last Sept. with cousins

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We met my brothers Jed and Jared here.

Change in plans and Madagascar

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Todd got a really great opportunity to precept in Oregon. A Doc there is having shoulder surgery so Todd will be able to adjust all his patience the whole time. (with the DC's coaching) Todd is also going to Madagascar for 2 weeks for a study-a-broad. (About Oct.23-Nov.5 or 7th) Then Part 4 boards is the 14th-16th of November. We planned to move the 17th But just got word TODAY that he is schedualed to take his last boards IN OREGON. It's probably good to get to Oregon earlier But when will he be able to study? -and -How am I going to have everything packed all by myself!?! It's do-able, but this crunches our time a whole lot more! Our plan is to move to Utah, Put most of our stuff in storage then move just what we'll need for three months to Oregon. It would be nice if we found a furnished apartment. I better get packing.

Preschool

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Hunter started preschool at Truman Elementary Aug. 12th and is loving it! Austin, Kyison, and Shendal are all in his class.

Glow Frogs

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Did you know that if you feed a frog a lighting bug you can see it flashing all the way down to his stomach? We caught a couple leopard frogs and have been having a blast catching bugs and watching the frogs eat them.

Progress plans

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Our trip was wonderful and productive. Disappointingly, Cache Valley looked far too saturated with Chiropractors. They say most of the population goes to the same four Doctors and all the new guys struggle. Todd has arranged to precept with a DC in Bountiful, Utah for his last semester. He can stay and work for this same Doctor for a while after. We’re also looking into a couple other options. We all enjoyed spending Quality time with our families on our trip. We were able to go boating, camping, fishing, swimmming, biking, and hiking. (Pictures will come as soon as I can tackle my husband at a time we are both avaliable.) Since the trip; I've been slowly getting things back in order, Our basement had to be cleared out so it's set me behind.

Flooding and Hospitals

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The night after I started my blogg our basement flooded. (So I wasn't able to get to my computer to actually Blog anything.) The Kids have been sick all week with a high fever. Elise first, then once she got better Hunter got it. But Sunday he was complaining of a stiff neck. So the Doctor felt it was best that he got checked out. As a result, Todd and Hunter spent most of Father's day in the hospital. But all the tests came back fine. He's just got a bad bug. But the doctor recommended we hold off on our trip to Utah a day to make sure He's O.K. to travel. Todd has just finished his 8th trimester here at Palmer. He's spending these first few days of his break in the clinic. He's getting some good experience and numbers. We're just trying to get the kids all better, pack for our long drive and are anxious for the landlord to get our stinky basement carpet cleaned.