For our entire time in Eagle, we’ve had the privilege of knowing and loving the Thygerson family. While we haven’t had the opportunity to get together in each other’s homes as much as we’d like, they have nonetheless been great friends, supporting and helping whenever we needed it and even sometimes when we didn’t know we needed help! They have been answers to prayers not only to us but to the rest of the ward and they are moving to Grand Junction on Saturday. Lucky for us, they’ll only be an hour from Ridgway, so they’re still within visiting distance for us when we move. However, we knew that we and many others would miss seeing them at church every week and visiting with them often. A friend suggested we should throw a going-away party for them and in the end the shin-dig was at our house. If I had thought about it, I would’ve taken pictures, but the only one we have is of SOME of the kids that were here.
This is only about half the kids that were here. At one point, I think we had at least 40 people in our house. For quite a while, the kids outnumbered the grown-ups! Thank goodness for a play room. Anyways, the party was a success and I know the Thygerson’s know how much they are loved!
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The other night I took Annika to the store to pick up a few things. Ammon called me on my cell right after we walked into the store. I had Annika by the hand and though I was on the phone thought I was keeping a good eye on her. We stopped beside the more expensive cheeses while Ammon was asking me something. Next thing I know, Annika has a block of PepperJack cheese in hand and has taken a bite, plastic and all. She would’ve kept going if I hadn’t stopped her. It was totally one of those “you had to be there” moments because the surprise and spontaneity of the moment made me have one of those gut-busting laughs right in the store and for about 5 minutes I tried to tell Ammon why I was laughing so hard, but the words just didn’t seem to make their way out. Needless to say….I bought the cheese! =) Ammon has been raving about how good it is. I’m just glad it wasn’t the Gruyere or something that costs upward of $9/lb!!!!
Here it is:
Yes…I took a picture of the cheese!
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Trying to figure out how to work the remote
Cool Dudette!
Have I mentioned how much Annika loves shoes? Tasha helped her find a crown to match.
Finding a good hiding place for later
Our little cheerleader!
In action!
Mini-Iron Man
Scaring the cheerleader
The best Young Women ever! I get to work and serve with them at church.
Annika spontaneously put the bib on her head and sat there till we noticed. Of course, by the time I got the camera, she was all done!
Being a goofball and making a face/blinking
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March came quicker than I would’ve liked and so far, without any snow….which for most of you would be A-ok. When you live in the mountains though, you kind of expect the snow in the winter and when your ski-loving husband almost cries when he looks at the bare patches of grass…you know it’s time for another big dump of the white stuff. =)
Not a lot of news to report, but those of you who didn’t know, we have decided to move. Eagle is a wonderful town, especially to raise children. It’s quiet, fairly small, pretty and has a great community feel. It’s also expensive….very, very expensive. While we knew this when we moved here, we’ve since re-vamped our idea of staying here at the thought of having a mortgage for the rest of our living days 0n earth.
So our decision was to move to Ridgway, Co. It’s an even smaller town (800 people) 30 min south of Montrose in the San Juan Mountains. It’s beautiful, even closer to the things we love (wildflowers, off-roading trails, camping, etc) and a WHOLE lot cheaper. We’ve found a few plots of land we’re currently in love with and surprise! They’re affordable! So, when our lease is up here at the end of June, we start a new adventure in Ridgway, renting for about a year till we save enough to build the Manning Dream House. Ridgway is also only about 10 min away from Ouray which has special meaning to Ammon and I since we spent a good part of our honeymoon there. Here are some pictures of Ridgway and Ouray for those of you who aren’t familiar with it:
Ridgway
(sorry it’s small) This is a different view of Ridgway
Town of Ouray
Famous Ice-Climbing at Box Canyon Falls in Ouray
Ouray from the road up above the town, heading to Silverton
So wish this was bigger. It’s a picture of Yankee Boy Basin about 20 min from where Ouray is. I’ve always wanted to see it!
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“Hi, guys!”
“Let’s go!”
“ewwwwwww”
“Why?”
“Mine”
“dirty”
“diaper”
“Hug?”
“bye-bye, Da-da”
“Potty”
“funny, hee hee hee hee”
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This is a forgotten post…..
The week of Valentine’s day, I tried to do heart hairstyles almost everyday, courtesy of some awesome hair blogs….did you really think I was that creative myself?!!! 
Here’s one of my fav’s:
So easy and cute!
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So, I realize that a lot of my posts, especially with pictures are about Annika. I don’t mean for it to be that way. I’ll make sure to get some Tasha and Kevin updates in here soon.
Annika LOVES shoes…
This is her closed-eyed “cheeeeeeeeeeeessssseeee”
Here’s a normal one
I did a real ponytail on Annika for the first time the other day. I felt like she looked so much older with it that I haven’t done it since…
Front View….
Side view….
Stop growing up!!! No more!
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This is a just a random day that I thought she looked cute. She looked cuter in real life than in the picture, probably because she tries to do this fake smile thing, but it’s still cute….
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I think I’ve mentioned before that Annika frequently becomes Tasha’s life-size doll because dressing up a real doll is way more fun! Here are some of the latest:
Baby doll outfit #1 This is the cute baby doll that I would buy for my girls if I had a choice between this one and the next….
Baby doll outfit #2 (a.k.a. Baby belly-dancing doll…)
Lucky for Tasha, Annika is such a willing little subject……….
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