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cotton-headed-ninny-muggins: May 2011
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Friday, May 20, 2011. Am I really doing the peace sign with a grown woman who is significantly shorter than me? Why yes. In order to survive with my Japanese companions during my mission, I tried to assimilate into the Japanese culture as much as possible. I ate rice and fermented soybeans for breakfast. And I liked it. I covered my mouth when laughing and chewing food. I fastidiously sorted the trash. When I saw a white person I thought, "What are they doing here? That's my excuse for posting this one m...
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cotton-headed-ninny-muggins: July 2011
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Monday, July 18, 2011. Sommercorn family reunion 2011 was in Lincoln City, OR this year. We all drove in from north, east, and south to share some fun memories and a large beach house. The weather just started warming up as we arrived. Although it barely warmed up above 70 degrees, it was sunny the whole time so we could enjoy some outdoor activities. We did a quick hike together to a big waterfall. The hike was just a way to burn a few calories before we headed to. the Tillamook Cheese Factory! We spent...
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cotton-headed-ninny-muggins: June 2011
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Saturday, June 18, 2011. The kids are growing and changing so fast! Elliot is sitting up on his own with the occasional topple. Will's photography skills are slowly but surely improving. Elliot's head is cut off, but at least he's in the center. Will is also getting so good at reading! This stamp book says, "You need to watch TV and do fishie, and no clipping nails." In truth, he can recognize his name and some letters, but that's about it. Elliot started eating food! Thursday, June 2, 2011. This morning...
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cotton-headed-ninny-muggins: September 2012
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Sunday, September 16, 2012. Summer is just about over for everyone, and that will finally include us too. Britton starts work next Monday, and our summer traveling days will be over. We had a great time this summer going to many places near and far. Unfortunately the Fourth of July fell on a Wednesday this year. What do you do with that? So we attended the annual Sommercorn family reunion the weekend before the holiday. This year we traveled to McCall, Idaho for some fresh mountain air. I have to...We sp...
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cotton-headed-ninny-muggins: February 2012
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Friday, February 10, 2012. This one is developing quite the attitude. I don't really mean attitude in a bad way. He is 14 months, and I guess that's about the time kids start showing a lot more personality and determination to follow their own agenda. He likes to do things to make us laugh like hiding in the curtains, sticking his tongue out, and shouting gibberish. Britton had a golden birthday turning 29 on the 29th! One of the cards said, "Knock knock. Who's there? 30" We are still in denial. We could...
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cotton-headed-ninny-muggins: January 2012
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Sunday, January 22, 2012. A Boy and His Tiger. Will and "tiger" are starting to remind me of Calvin and Hobbes. Sunday, January 8, 2012. From Thanksgiving to New Years there's a whole lot of activity, family time, money spent, and food eaten. 2 murder mystery parties. 2 "special" musical numbers. 3 Christmas light displays. Lots of board games. Mustache wearing, footie pajama-ed, guitar player. Sorry Hailey, I had to include this picture. It was sunny and warm for my birthday again! Elliot wouldn't let m...
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cotton-headed-ninny-muggins: October 2011
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Friday, October 21, 2011. Whew, it's been a while.again. Let's just get started on the updates for everyone. Starting with the youngest, Elliot the little schnookums. I think this picture was taken a while ago. He crawls up on his knees now. But he still loves chasing balls around! He is still eating everything in sight. For a while I thought he had learned his lesson with sand, but he's back to being a sand-eater. They had such a great time. There were hardly any lines and plenty of candy. Will'...Me I'...
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cotton-headed-ninny-muggins: September 2011
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Sunday, September 4, 2011. We planned Will's first friend birthday party! We held it right outside on the playground. The theme this year was trains.of course. Will doesn't watch Thomas as much as he used to, but trains are definitely still his favorite toy to play with. Britton and I had a lot of fun putting everything together. Our goal was to make a cake that actually tasted as good as it looked. Success! We also made this pin the funnel on Thomas game. Will totally peeked. Will got a lot of great pre...
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cotton-headed-ninny-muggins: And... We're back!
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Monday, April 1, 2013. I was about to turn my back on blogging forever, but the fact is, I really like looking at this blog. So much of Will's early life is chronicled here, and I love to show old pictures, and videos to him. So I'm going to attempt to summarize the last 6 months! We took a family trip out to Yosemite. Britton and I had nasty colds, but we did our best to breathe through our mouths and make the trip enjoyable anyway. It was a busy trip! The boys LOVED it, of course. And I don't happe...
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cotton-headed-ninny-muggins: April 2011
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Tuesday, April 5, 2011. Why are little boys so sweaty? They play hard, that's why! We've been having lots of fun lately inviting friends over to our house. Pictured above is Will and Carson driving their cars up a homemade slide. Will and Joseph spent some time playing Bob the Builder and fixing things. Thanks cousin Sam for sharing your awesome construction hats. I'm not sure why all the kids love playing in it. The only thing it has going for it is a door that opens so the kids can climb in it. Britton...
