Mama!

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Yoga at home

When people exercise at home, I don’t think it goes down the way it does in my home.
I haven’t been able to attend many yoga classes since Jacob joined our family, and I miss it so much. I decided to create myself a daily flow and practice on my own. Then I had the inspired idea to look on YouTube for classes. I found some great ones and started to make that my “me” time. I put in my pandora station for a soundtrack and get bendy with it.
(Okay, really lame joke/pop culture reference. I apologize.)
Today I couldn’t do this during Jacob’s nap time because I needed him to sleep in the car, so I tried to entertain him with toys, cartoons, and crayons to keep him out of my hair.
I don’t think my cat/cows were supposed to have an additional and wiggly 30-pound weight added to my back. I don’t think that when the instructor prompts viewers to do a plank that she pictured a small boy crawling under my plank, rolling onto his back and giggling. Or that he would hit me with one end of a foam roller repeatedly while I tried to center my thoughts. Or jump on my back while I attempted child’s pose.
I don’t know, but I think all of these distractions made my practice much more effective and awesome.
I’m pretty sure.

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Laughter

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My day yesterday

I was gone for two minutes.
I went in the office to clean up jacob’s crayons. I thought it seemed quiet in the house.
I don’t know where he got the lipstick; I’m guessing he learned how to open my bathroom drawers.
Sigh.

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All’s well that ends well: I got him clean using Method dish soap. I thought his skin and hair would be stained red but they weren’t. Only the waterline of his eyelids remained red…so he looks like he has been crying for days.
The couch came clean with Dr. Bronners Castile oil soap. I can’t believe how well it worked!

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Adorable!

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Parachute

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Instavideo

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I hope this works!

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Big Bear Lake, Part I

This could be a record for me–going on vacation and already posting pictures just days afterward!?

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Hiking Castle Rock

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The view from Castle Rock

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He was smelling the flower, but smelling turned to tasting…

We had a lot of fun hiking, boating, biking (not me), talking, eating, dancing (Jacob) and just relaxing!

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Knuckles!
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Kurt paddleboarding
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Some phone pictures from Big Bear

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Nielsen Family Reunion 2013

Well, it’s not the way I imagined this post looking..I had planned on having more pictures of people and events, but due to Jacob’s scary high fever, we were cooped up indoors quite a bit. When we were around the family I was holding him; he didn’t want to be apart from me for an instant. So these are the pictures I could get on a hike and walk around Coloma. IMG_2221

James Marshall discovered gold in Coloma and started the Gold Rush.IMG_2215Nielsen Family Reunion 2013

(An argonaut is a diver!)

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The inside of a Mormon cabin.

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Another view inside the cabin.


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So much cool moss. Am I weird that I find it so interesting?? This (above) might even be an air plant. Super cool.IMG_2228

Beautiful, right? But don’t touch! Yikes…

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Josh’s Aunt Shelly and Uncle Luis are performing a flag retirement ceremony. It’s a really neat thing to experience if you haven’t. A worn and battered flag is ceremoniously turned over to the flames. The ashes of the flag are buried in a special spot as well, so that every bit of the flag’s life is full of respect.

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The Schoolhouse
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An operational blacksmith shop.

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Sick Jacob is waving to the camera.

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😦 Poor baby

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A beautiful fire station in Auburn.

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