The Haggarton's

So Josh, now that you've graduated, what are you going to do? I'M GOING TO HAWAII!!!

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An amazing vacation in Hawaii!

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A beautiful sunset on the north shore.

Josh and I.

The beach, a book and a good friend, does life get any better?

View from the freeway.

A giant sea turtle basking in the sun, pauses to take a photo with us.

Sorry it's been FOREVER since I've updated my blog!

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A lot has happened in our family since I last blogged. Family pics were taken right after Christmas. Then in March we welcomed little Maverick into the family. Congratulations Jen, Dev and big sister Londyn.

We went to lunch for Kelli's birthday.
Please let me know if you take a peek at my blog, I just might keep up with it if I know someone's looking.

My most recent project

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Every summer I try to do a home improvement project. Last summer I redecorated my living room, refinished an old dining table and made slip covers for the chairs. I didn't have time to do any window treatments, so I did them this summer. I built cornices using wood moldings and fabric. I did the actual wood cutting on the back porch, but the construction I did in the house. It's too hot out there! Here are some pics, before, after and during the project.
This is my work area, a cornice in the process of being built.

How do you like my chip clip clamps? It worked.

living room before cornices.

Living room after the cornices and sheers.

Dining room, I just need to change out the light fixture,
I have a larger iron one to put there. The chandelier is
going to go over my bathtub (my husband doesn't know that yet.)

Cabin Girls Trip

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Five adults (My girls and I), 3 kids and 5 babies. We had a fun time at Jaime and Tyson's cabin.

Quick Trip to Utah

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Jaime and I did a quick trip to Utah last weekend. We had a great time.

Grandma (me) with two of my favorite little girls, Reece and her new baby sister.

Jaime and her new niece.

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We had a wonderful Mother's Day dinner at our home. All of our daughters and daughters-in-law are mothers now, so the men did the dinner...all of it. They each had an assignment, and they all came through. It was so good that we are thinking we should do our monthly family dinner this way every other month!

Josh's Prom

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Josh and his very cute date, Brooke.

Some of the parents did a dinner for our kids going to prom, held in an amazing back yard. I was in charge of decorating tables. A talented friend, Brit, made beautiful place mats with the couple's names on them. We had a total of 22 kids.

I have some catching up to do!

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Josh and Jeremiah on the deck at Alpine.

Josh modeled in the school 'Prom fashion show'.

This is my mom holding Londyn. One of her many great grand children.

School Art Show - April.
I have some really amazing students!

2009-05-03T20:51:00.000-07:00

I have to tell you what we discovered when we got to Alpine. Josh went to pull down the covers on one of the twin beds and found this... The mice had gotten into the wheat in the food storage and had very neatly placed it in that bed as if someone had carefully gotten a large cup full and poured it in a line below the pillow. It was so funny that we had to take pictures, then Josh pulled all the bedding off and washed it. We disposed of the plastic wheat containers that had holes chewed into them. In my mind I picture the little mice from 'Cinderella' carefully going back and forth with their mouths full of that wheat and carefully depositing it in place. These cute little critters have their own favorite places to keep warm and eat. We did find two dead mice, it's almost sad, but really, if they were house trained I wouldn't mind having them scurry around....well, maybe not.

Hubbie got an owie!

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Dwight was lifting some heavy blocks at work and one slipped and smashed off the tip of his finger. Here he is in the Urgent Care. He had a couple of stitches to tighten it and stop the bleeding. Don't look too close if you get queasy. It's gross. It didn't take his bone or his nail (yet). He was sent to a hand specialist but was told there was nothing else they could do. He just has to grow a new fingertip. He laughed the whole way through, except when they put it in saline solution to clean it. He said that was a religious experience. I'm just grateful the injury wasn't worse.

Any body need a lighthouse?

2009-03-01T12:02:00.000-08:00

Ok, there are some weird things about myself that I can't explain, they are just there. I love making things like this. It was for our New Beginnings for Young Women. It is taller than me and has a lamp in it so it really lights up. It is made from a furniture box, tape, hot glue and paint. I had so much fun making it and really want other people to use it for what ever church thing you might need a light house for. the main part of it unfolds flat, it goes up in less than 5 minutes. Anyway, let me know if you want to borrow it.

Brigham, Casen & Jeramiah

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I have been wanting to get a pic of all three grandsons together, it's hard, but Friday night we were together and I got it. I put both in because we could not get a good one of all at once.

Happy New Year!

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I love this picture! Londyn is trying to suck on Josh's nose!

We had a fun New Years Party.

I took the girls to Freestone Park to ride the merry-go-round, the train and other rides. We bought popsicles and then went to Chic-fil-A!

Waiting for the train at Freestone park with Paige, Brooklyn, Regan and Reece.

All Together!

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Last weekend we had all of our family together! It was wonderful! We don't get to do that very often, and so we had to take family pictures!

Michael, Kim & Reece

Jaime, Tyson, Paige, Brooklyn, Regan & Brigham

Craig, Kelli & Daisy

Alyssa, Darin & Casen

Emilee, Todd & Jeremiah

Jenna, Devon & Londyn

Fun Christmas!

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Adorable Jeremiah

Baby Londyn, sleeping through the chaos.

Daisy, pretty in pink and smiling at Grandma.

Casen playing with wrapping paper.

Josh, Paige & Brooklyn.

Smiley Brigham

Arranging Regan's tutu that I made her.

Me when I opened my gift from Jaime, tickets to see "Wicked" with my girls.

I Love Christmas!

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I have so much fun decorating my house for Christmas. I start looking forward to it months ahead. I just wanted to post some of my decorations.

Here are our stockings, I started making them in 1982, when we had 4 children, we started with 6, we now have 24. One is for my mom who usually spends Christmas with us. They are made in the same 80's style I started with, but I try to keep the fabric and trim up to date. Everyone gets a stocking even though they don't live here. I hang them on the upstairs railing because thats the only place I could think of where there is enough room, but it works.

This is my tree, it is about 10 or 11 ft. tall, It's huge! It is so full that I have to bend the branches in the back up so that it can be pushed farther toward the wall or we would have very little room to walk by it. Dwight built a platform for it because the branches hung down so low we couldn't put presents under it. I got it at a garage sale a few years ago for $80, one of my best garage sale finds.

This is the little scene on top of my entertainment center, my daughter in law, Kim made the Santa for me a few years ago and I have collected the other things here and there.

Welcome Baby Londyn!

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School Art Show

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Last weekend was my art show at school. I work for weeks getting ready for the show, encouraging my students to do their best, mounting the artwork, contacting judges, setting it up, awarding ribbons and prizes, and then taking it down. Here is a picture, I wish I had gotten a better picture, but when I remembered to do it there were too many people standing in front of the displays. So this is just a small part of the show. I had about 130 art pieces on display. These kids are amazing.

Me and My Girls

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This pic was taken at Jenna's baby shower on Saturday, Nov. 1st. She got lots of great stuff!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

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Every Halloween we have a neighborhood party in our carport, I make a lot of chili, neighbors bring corn bread, chips, pop, and everything else. We have a cozy fire in the rolling fire pit, (this year it was for atmosphere only, as it was really warm outside, even way after dark). We give chili to neighbors who are trick-or-treating, and some come and sit and visit. It is always a fun evening.
Above is Dwight, Jenna and Emilee. Dwight just got home after being out of town for 3 days.

Emilee and sister-in-law, Julie. Jenna conveniently dressed as a very cute pregnant lady, husband Devon conveniently dressed as a corrections officer, minutes before leaving for work.

My Mom came for the weekend, the witch holding Jeremiah is me. Why is it that it takes so much less time to make myself into a hideous looking old witch than it use to? Little Jeremiah the bandito in his poncho and moustache.

Here are some of our neighborhood friends who came to our party. We had Sonny and Cher (Kelsey & Landon), Alice in Wonderland & a princess, plus a lot more. We went through a lot of chili, cornbread, and candy!

Happy Birthday Josh!

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Josh turned 17 last week. We had a big family dinner as you can see.
I'm having a hard time coming to the realization that my baby is this old.

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Emilee tagged me, so you have to read all my answers...

abc tag

A. Attached or single? attached

B. Best Friend? I guess I should say Dwight...(But if he doesn't read this maybe I can say Kim, Jaime, Kelli, Alyssa, Emilee & Jenna)

C. Cake or pie? depends on what kind of pie and what kind of cake

D. Day of Choice? Friday, I don't work on Friday

E. Essential Item ? cell phone

F. Favorite Color? yellow

G. Gummy bears or worms? neither, licorice jelly beans or sweedish fish

H. Hometown? chandler

I. Ideal Vacation? Alpine & Mexico

J. January or July? July...duh, I'm a teacher

K. Kids? Michael, Jaime, Craig, Alyssa, Emilee, Jenna & Joshua

L. Life isn't complete without? My family

M. Marriage date? Oct. 10, 1975

N. Number of brothers/sisters? 3-sisters 1-brother

O. Oranges or apples? apples

P. Phophias? I'm scared to say, someone might use it against me...shhhhh. spiders

Q. Quotes? "Live in such a way that those who don't know Christ will want to know Christ because they know you."

R. Reasons to smile? My wonderful husband, my children and their children, my pretty house... I could fill pages.

S. Season of choice? fall

T. Tag some people: I'll have to see who hasn't been tagged

U. Unknown fact about me? Last year I got pulled over on the I-10 during rush hour traffic by 3 cops for suspicion of marijuana. One of them thought they smelled it coming from my car. It's funny now, at the time it was not so funny.

V. Vegetable? GREEN BEANS

W. Worst habit? eating sweets

X. X-ray or Ultrasound? Ultrasound

Y. Your favorite food? Alice Springs Chicken from Outback

Z. Zodiac Sign?Libra

2008-10-12T20:41:00.000-07:00

Happy Anniversary to us! October 10th was our 33rd wedding anniversary, and just happened to be our Stake Bishop's Retreat to Snowflake as well. We stayed in this great Bed and Breakfast, had a nice dinner and evening activities with a lot of great people. The next morning Dwight had meetings with the Stake Presidency and the other Bishops, while the wives had a lovely breakfast and went antique shopping. I forgot to have someone take a picture of us for our anniversary, so I tried to do it myself when we were in our room. That's why it's blurry. (Maybe blurry is a good thing at our age.)

This is the bedroom we stayed in, it was so cute, with antique furniture, it is in the old part of the house. Our bathroom had a claw foot tub, in which I took a hot soaky bubble bath while reading a book. (Dwight was in a meeting.)

This is the Bed and Breakfast from the street.
It is a really cute old house. Our bedroom was upstairs front, in
the original part of the house.

2008-10-09T20:06:00.000-07:00

As some of you know I am an Art teacher at a Jr. High - High School in Mesa. I love my job, and I love my students. This week we have been working on art work using colored pencils, not your usual colored pencils, but really nice, quality colored pencils, that if used correctly can produce art work that looks like an oil painting. I enjoy doing projects along with my students. I decided to reproduce a photo from our Mexico trip. This is two of my granddaughters (Reece and Paige) playing in the sand and the waves. I hope no one minds if I show some of my art on my blog. I have no other venue to display, other than my home and gifts to loved ones. Art is one of my passions and it brings me so much happiness. Doing art work of and for my family members is just pure joy.

Mexico trip!! It's all about the grandkids!

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Reece playing in the sand, Paige after riding a wave, Papa holding

Brigham, Daisy posing, "Pancho" Jeremiah, Brooklyn jumping for joy in the pool, Casen riding in his stroller and Regan giving me flowers.

One amazing family vacation in Mexico!!

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We spent a wonderful 5 days at a beautiful resort in Rosarito, Mexico with our children and grandchildren. We had a great time! We missed Jenna and Devon, who could not come.

Nothing is more rewarding

than watching your children be parents.

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Its all about the GRANDKIDS!

We have 8 grandchildren now and one more on the way in December, thanks to Jenna and Devon. Here you see Casen's cute grin, our newest baby Jeremiah Thatcher, me holding Reece, Paige and Brooklyn at their dance recital, Regan's toothy smile. Brigham at his blessing, Josh holding Daisy, and our Alpine house. (thrown in just because that's where we have lots of fun times.)

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Summer - '08

While Josh was in Mexico with Jaime and Tyson, Jenna and I jumped into my new car and drove to Utah to see Michael, Kim and especially Reece.

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Welcome Jeremiah!

Jeremiah Thatcher was born on July 26 to beautiful mom Emilee and proud daddy Todd.

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Welcome Daisy!

Sweet little Daisy Haggarton was born to beautiful mom Kelli, and proud daddy Craig, on July 2. I was at the hospital when she was born and was thrilled to hold her just a little while after.

We Now Have Another Grandson!

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Brigham Breinholt was born on April 25th 2008 at 2:30pm! This is brooklyn holding her new brother.
The three princesses with their new brother! They were so excited they all wanted to hold him.
Regan is just a cutie!
Aunt Jenna with Casen

Me & my girls at Jaime's baby shower

Christmas 2007 - We got a grandson!

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Casen Tyler born Dec. 27th. He is perfect.

Papa Dwight is relaxing by the tree.

Three of our darlings, Santa was very good to them.

The guys were banished to the bedroom to watch the Sun's game.

Fall trip to Alpine

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Reece and Regan are so

excited to drink pop!
Our darling granddaughters near Big Lake.

We went to our Alpine house in October, this photo was taken at Terry Flat, one of our favorite places to visit. Pictured are Kim (Michael's wife), Craig & Kelli, Jenna, Josh, Alyssa, Paige, Jaime, Reece & Regan. Michael and Devon were fishing that day.

The Beginning!

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Welcome to our blog. I am a rookie, being tutored by a pro... my darling daughter Jenna. This is the most recent photo of our entire family. On June 16, 2007, Jenna and Devon Winters were married. These are our other kids ... The picture below is some of the San Tan 3rd Singles Branch. My husband Dwight is the Branch President. He loves his calling and these kids are amazing.