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Birthday Weekends: Highly recommended!!!!

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Birthday Cake #1 came with a crazy candle from my sister Rebecca: The candle actually worked really well! No need to have a fire extinguisher standing by. ") The Anniversary Inn in Salt Lake City has fun themed rooms like this one, the Mysteries of Egypt Suite.  There's a shower head in the snake's mouth, and the tub fills with water that trickles down the rocks off to the side! (it's kind of slow) Rebecca and Andrea upgraded our room to a package that included robes and roses and lots of fun treats. We were very well fed! Birthday Cake #2 matches my headband. We played ring toss with glowing necklaces and my unicorn horn.  Karaoke friends.  Loot!!!

February Video

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Einstein the axolotl!

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 About 3 weeks ago, we got a baby axolotl and named him Einstein. In the first picture, he's about four weeks old and his rear legs are just starting to grow. At this size Einstein can eat brine shrimp so I started trying to grow those. Baby axolotls need live food because the movement triggers them to eat. It turns out that brine shrimp are kind of tricky to grow? I'm not sure what's up - I started my second batch of eggs hatching a few days ago, and I have a handful of adults from the first batch that I started several weeks ago. Einstein is eating black worms that we get at a local exotic pet store, so I don't need  to get these brine shrimp growing, but ... everyone says it's easy! Why can't I get them to grow? It's basically just a challenge at this point. Here's Einstein now. He's much bigger, and his back legs are even starting to get fingers! You can see some black worms to the side of him. Lots of axolotls in captivity have been genetically

January 2024

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Skiing

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For years, the photos on our ski passes have just rolled over from the year before. Surely there's a way to update the photos when you buy passes online, though. It might be time to figure that out - if any liftie actually looked at their passes, Henry and Luke would be thrown off the mountain. For a while, their ski passes made a nice "look how they've grown" type memento. Not anymore!  Here's what they actually look like:

2023 Review

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 Once you combine them to make a video of a whole year, they get pretty long. I don't actually expect anyone but me to want to watch this all the way through, but it really helps me remember that we are  making time for important things. 

December 2023 Video

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