<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6773004471952737830</id><updated>2012-02-16T11:10:32.553-08:00</updated><title type='text'>The Cotton Family</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default?start-index=101&amp;max-results=100'/><author><name>Michelle Cotton</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14688766356309184142</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>103</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6773004471952737830.post-4356770494722977539</id><published>2011-11-03T21:00:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2011-11-03T21:12:01.855-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Random Sookie pictures</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-GQ_Pmz56ess/TrNkR8vOqwI/AAAAAAAAAeo/EosyCkKwYVU/s1600/DSC00092.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-GQ_Pmz56ess/TrNkR8vOqwI/AAAAAAAAAeo/EosyCkKwYVU/s320/DSC00092.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5670986615314361090" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;The girls...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-JAiE08iGeeU/TrNkQ7pcisI/AAAAAAAAAeY/g3DNgXkZdo8/s1600/DSC00116.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-JAiE08iGeeU/TrNkQ7pcisI/AAAAAAAAAeY/g3DNgXkZdo8/s320/DSC00116.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5670986597841799874" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Sookie cleaning our pumpkins.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-JqMioIPWw9E/TrNkQc5rG7I/AAAAAAAAAeM/ozoiQgaQmXM/s1600/DSC00145.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-JqMioIPWw9E/TrNkQc5rG7I/AAAAAAAAAeM/ozoiQgaQmXM/s320/DSC00145.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5670986589588364210" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Sookie trying to get her first bites of snow.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6773004471952737830-4356770494722977539?l=cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/4356770494722977539'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/4356770494722977539'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com/2011/11/random-sookie-pictures.html' title='Random Sookie pictures'/><author><name>Michelle Cotton</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14688766356309184142</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-GQ_Pmz56ess/TrNkR8vOqwI/AAAAAAAAAeo/EosyCkKwYVU/s72-c/DSC00092.JPG' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6773004471952737830.post-1700707087329753542</id><published>2011-05-03T13:40:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-05-03T14:06:11.289-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Sookie's 1st week home</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-_SiTGasLHFI/TcBrtxLK2ZI/AAAAAAAAAeA/LdPoM7MVY7w/s1600/DSC09167.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-_SiTGasLHFI/TcBrtxLK2ZI/AAAAAAAAAeA/LdPoM7MVY7w/s320/DSC09167.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5602596370487368082" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Sookie with her brothers (she's on the top left)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-FkkeIB1eFRs/TcBrtXurE2I/AAAAAAAAAd4/aTHu31M53iY/s1600/DSC09173.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-FkkeIB1eFRs/TcBrtXurE2I/AAAAAAAAAd4/aTHu31M53iY/s320/DSC09173.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5602596363656958818" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Sookie on her big bed&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9Vdy_jqf-rM/TcBrs3ybaMI/AAAAAAAAAdw/57POeWjc_ZU/s1600/DSC09197.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9Vdy_jqf-rM/TcBrs3ybaMI/AAAAAAAAAdw/57POeWjc_ZU/s320/DSC09197.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5602596355082774722" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Our 3 all American girls&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-SotMFxDYuL4/TcBrsndyV1I/AAAAAAAAAdo/dmMpdr9zPdQ/s1600/DSC09198.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-SotMFxDYuL4/TcBrsndyV1I/AAAAAAAAAdo/dmMpdr9zPdQ/s320/DSC09198.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5602596350701229906" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Chilling on the grass&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-DS743drsZW8/TcBrsLsIzrI/AAAAAAAAAdg/ibie5bixj5U/s1600/DSC09199.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-DS743drsZW8/TcBrsLsIzrI/AAAAAAAAAdg/ibie5bixj5U/s320/DSC09199.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5602596343245229746" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;So sweet!  Sookie sporting some bling too...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6773004471952737830-1700707087329753542?l=cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/1700707087329753542'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/1700707087329753542'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com/2011/05/sookies-1st-week-home.html' title='Sookie&apos;s 1st week home'/><author><name>Michelle Cotton</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14688766356309184142</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-_SiTGasLHFI/TcBrtxLK2ZI/AAAAAAAAAeA/LdPoM7MVY7w/s72-c/DSC09167.JPG' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6773004471952737830.post-673455558740492979</id><published>2011-04-27T16:00:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-04-27T19:11:21.666-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Adoption Announcement</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;It's a girl!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-s6Te9q1aTrw/TbigMcS6RDI/AAAAAAAAAdY/E0eOBF5YAss/s1600/Sookie.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-s6Te9q1aTrw/TbigMcS6RDI/AAAAAAAAAdY/E0eOBF5YAss/s320/Sookie.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5600402272249594930" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Sookie Marie Cotton&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;We are proud to announce we have a new family member!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6773004471952737830-673455558740492979?l=cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/673455558740492979'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/673455558740492979'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com/2011/04/adoption-announcement.html' title='Adoption Announcement'/><author><name>Michelle Cotton</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14688766356309184142</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-s6Te9q1aTrw/TbigMcS6RDI/AAAAAAAAAdY/E0eOBF5YAss/s72-c/Sookie.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6773004471952737830.post-3076280712690295167</id><published>2011-02-18T15:25:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2011-02-18T15:27:44.910-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Snow Day!  No School!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-uUFlF3SF_R0/TV8ALcwXnbI/AAAAAAAAAdQ/dYUnk_dwZ8Q/s1600/DSC08858.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-uUFlF3SF_R0/TV8ALcwXnbI/AAAAAAAAAdQ/dYUnk_dwZ8Q/s320/DSC08858.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5575175060405591474" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;I caught Ashley just sitting and eating snow....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-z_URIfKmnnc/TV8ALI698AI/AAAAAAAAAdI/vVH7Oy0frwU/s1600/DSC08859.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-z_URIfKmnnc/TV8ALI698AI/AAAAAAAAAdI/vVH7Oy0frwU/s320/DSC08859.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5575175055081336834" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Grace says she is building a roller coaster on the side of the house.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6773004471952737830-3076280712690295167?l=cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/3076280712690295167'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/3076280712690295167'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com/2011/02/snow-day-no-school.html' title='Snow Day!  No School!'/><author><name>Michelle Cotton</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14688766356309184142</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-uUFlF3SF_R0/TV8ALcwXnbI/AAAAAAAAAdQ/dYUnk_dwZ8Q/s72-c/DSC08858.JPG' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6773004471952737830.post-14613489499359922</id><published>2011-02-18T07:55:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2011-02-18T07:58:54.038-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Day 3 of our February storm</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-2wWFIIIyooM/TV6W7bUqhSI/AAAAAAAAAdA/pcytp4TK3SI/s1600/DSC08855.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-2wWFIIIyooM/TV6W7bUqhSI/AAAAAAAAAdA/pcytp4TK3SI/s320/DSC08855.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5575059336422130978" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-3x2aZT3LtmQ/TV6W7A2WUlI/AAAAAAAAAc4/hELYzvLqmsk/s1600/DSC08852.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-3x2aZT3LtmQ/TV6W7A2WUlI/AAAAAAAAAc4/hELYzvLqmsk/s320/DSC08852.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5575059329315656274" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;And the snow keeps coming down....&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6773004471952737830-14613489499359922?l=cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/14613489499359922'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/14613489499359922'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com/2011/02/day-3-of-our-february-storm.html' title='Day 3 of our February storm'/><author><name>Michelle Cotton</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14688766356309184142</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-2wWFIIIyooM/TV6W7bUqhSI/AAAAAAAAAdA/pcytp4TK3SI/s72-c/DSC08855.JPG' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6773004471952737830.post-3957312735915327102</id><published>2011-02-17T07:00:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-02-17T07:04:37.490-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Our February winter storm</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-vtP2OEd9vrs/TV04xFJxR4I/AAAAAAAAAcw/POwkLDvtaCI/s1600/DSC08847.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-vtP2OEd9vrs/TV04xFJxR4I/AAAAAAAAAcw/POwkLDvtaCI/s320/DSC08847.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5574674329602443138" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-XuaXW5b_f18/TV04w6cF7dI/AAAAAAAAAco/E3TGpHDM6cg/s1600/DSC08846.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-XuaXW5b_f18/TV04w6cF7dI/AAAAAAAAAco/E3TGpHDM6cg/s320/DSC08846.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5574674326726503890" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;And it's supposed to snow for a few more days....&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6773004471952737830-3957312735915327102?l=cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/3957312735915327102'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/3957312735915327102'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com/2011/02/our-february-winter-storm.html' title='Our February winter storm'/><author><name>Michelle Cotton</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14688766356309184142</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-vtP2OEd9vrs/TV04xFJxR4I/AAAAAAAAAcw/POwkLDvtaCI/s72-c/DSC08847.JPG' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6773004471952737830.post-3381507511215574020</id><published>2011-02-14T09:15:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-02-14T09:25:31.820-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Happy Valentine's Day - 2011</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-kU9it-Ef0mQ/TVllQ94K8cI/AAAAAAAAAb4/AD-DPLflNug/s1600/DSC08843.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-kU9it-Ef0mQ/TVllQ94K8cI/AAAAAAAAAb4/AD-DPLflNug/s320/DSC08843.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5573597356010172866" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-_hu-YVRVMs4/TVllQQzboaI/AAAAAAAAAbw/7lQisNtLonE/s1600/DSC08842.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-_hu-YVRVMs4/TVllQQzboaI/AAAAAAAAAbw/7lQisNtLonE/s320/DSC08842.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5573597343910699426" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;We hope our windy day in Reno carries Valentine's hugs and kisses to everyone today!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-BnJNNW0VK5Q/TVlkVj_o8WI/AAAAAAAAAbg/Dx1jdNtPTiU/s1600/DSC08841.JPG"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6773004471952737830-3381507511215574020?l=cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/3381507511215574020'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/3381507511215574020'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com/2011/02/happy-valentines-day-2011.html' title='Happy Valentine&apos;s Day - 2011'/><author><name>Michelle Cotton</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14688766356309184142</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-kU9it-Ef0mQ/TVllQ94K8cI/AAAAAAAAAb4/AD-DPLflNug/s72-c/DSC08843.JPG' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6773004471952737830.post-3164976916875919778</id><published>2011-01-27T17:30:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-02-14T11:53:10.050-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Grace's 7th Birthday</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-BfdvPtbGHpo/TVmDq55EX-I/AAAAAAAAAcA/vPm--0J3Njc/s1600/DSC08794.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-BfdvPtbGHpo/TVmDq55EX-I/AAAAAAAAAcA/vPm--0J3Njc/s320/DSC08794.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5573630786965626850" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Grace is 7 years old!!  Here is her new American Girl doll she got for her birthday.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6773004471952737830-3164976916875919778?l=cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/3164976916875919778'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/3164976916875919778'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com/2011/02/graces-7th-birthday.html' title='Grace&apos;s 7th Birthday'/><author><name>Michelle Cotton</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14688766356309184142</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-BfdvPtbGHpo/TVmDq55EX-I/AAAAAAAAAcA/vPm--0J3Njc/s72-c/DSC08794.JPG' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6773004471952737830.post-9115494774662505250</id><published>2011-01-22T15:30:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-02-14T11:51:48.460-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Grace's 7th Birthday Party</title><content type='html'>Grace had a magic birthday party.  Here is Grace and Ashley holding "Larry Bird" after the show. During the show Grace made a rabbit appear!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-6jeVycQzYis/TVmGqJJeaWI/AAAAAAAAAcg/JLxVjGXe29k/s320/DSC08729.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5573634072415988066" /&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-wJOm53HI_OQ/TVmGp0_r-BI/AAAAAAAAAcY/Dj-kMB9J0Ro/s320/DSC08734.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5573634067006224402" /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-5rju4qZUKPY/TVmGpAGrwnI/AAAAAAAAAcI/GDNdiygkZzU/s1600/DSC08748.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-5rju4qZUKPY/TVmGpAGrwnI/AAAAAAAAAcI/GDNdiygkZzU/s320/DSC08748.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5573634052808491634" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-RgXKsSdVGCo/TVmGpS89WkI/AAAAAAAAAcQ/s2AxCPjQqV8/s320/DSC08705.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5573634057867975234" /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6773004471952737830-9115494774662505250?l=cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/9115494774662505250'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/9115494774662505250'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com/2011/01/graces-7th-birthday-party.html' title='Grace&apos;s 7th Birthday Party'/><author><name>Michelle Cotton</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14688766356309184142</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-6jeVycQzYis/TVmGqJJeaWI/AAAAAAAAAcg/JLxVjGXe29k/s72-c/DSC08729.JPG' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6773004471952737830.post-3145959534827953393</id><published>2010-08-30T09:00:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-09-19T21:41:40.244-07:00</updated><title type='text'>First day of school 2010-2011</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/TJblrMYbvMI/AAAAAAAAAa0/CCpE1UCTvIs/s1600/DSC00252.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/TJblrMYbvMI/AAAAAAAAAa0/CCpE1UCTvIs/s320/DSC00252.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5518850923609963714" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Off to Pre-K and 1st Grade!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6773004471952737830-3145959534827953393?l=cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/3145959534827953393'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/3145959534827953393'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com/2010/08/first-day-of-school-2010-2011.html' title='First day of school 2010-2011'/><author><name>Michelle Cotton</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14688766356309184142</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/TJblrMYbvMI/AAAAAAAAAa0/CCpE1UCTvIs/s72-c/DSC00252.JPG' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6773004471952737830.post-8613740634260840040</id><published>2010-08-29T21:42:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-09-19T21:53:17.888-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Nevada State Fair 2010!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/TJbndRZmZdI/AAAAAAAAAbM/vqrGjNwVNMY/s1600/DSC00233.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/TJbndRZmZdI/AAAAAAAAAbM/vqrGjNwVNMY/s320/DSC00233.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5518852883462120914" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Checking out the livestock. (see the baby cow in the back)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/TJbnc5g0weI/AAAAAAAAAbE/1_r9ySRxf7c/s1600/DSC00238.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/TJbnc5g0weI/AAAAAAAAAbE/1_r9ySRxf7c/s320/DSC00238.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5518852877049971170" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Old West props for a gunfight show.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/TJbnb4Jl6nI/AAAAAAAAAa8/AAdRbJw1ZsY/s1600/DSC00251.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/TJbnb4Jl6nI/AAAAAAAAAa8/AAdRbJw1ZsY/s320/DSC00251.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5518852859504224882" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Mom and Grace going on the Super Shot!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6773004471952737830-8613740634260840040?l=cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/8613740634260840040'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/8613740634260840040'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com/2010/08/nevada-state-fair-2010.html' title='Nevada State Fair 2010!'/><author><name>Michelle Cotton</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14688766356309184142</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/TJbndRZmZdI/AAAAAAAAAbM/vqrGjNwVNMY/s72-c/DSC00233.JPG' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6773004471952737830.post-3505368876986667288</id><published>2010-04-04T14:12:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-04-07T20:37:11.074-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Easter 2010</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/S71OPbjePmI/AAAAAAAAAZM/G90TTyfB6U8/s1600/DSC07472.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/S71OPbjePmI/AAAAAAAAAZM/G90TTyfB6U8/s320/DSC07472.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5457604350444453474" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;The Easter bunny left so many eggs to find!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/S71OOYBSSrI/AAAAAAAAAZE/uCWwwPXYPzU/s1600/DSC07477.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/S71OOYBSSrI/AAAAAAAAAZE/uCWwwPXYPzU/s320/DSC07477.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5457604332315888306" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Ashley and Grace in their Easter bonnets and dresses.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/S71ONuwhL0I/AAAAAAAAAY8/DMFuye7UIsM/s1600/DSC07481.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/S71ONuwhL0I/AAAAAAAAAY8/DMFuye7UIsM/s320/DSC07481.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5457604321239707458" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Our Easter dinner table.  Festive and colorful!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/S71ONEdwHgI/AAAAAAAAAY0/joUEFZu0drc/s1600/DSC07483.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/S71ONEdwHgI/AAAAAAAAAY0/joUEFZu0drc/s320/DSC07483.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5457604309886705154" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Our Easter treats.  Easter bunny cupcakes and sugar cookies with buttercream frosting.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6773004471952737830-3505368876986667288?l=cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/3505368876986667288'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/3505368876986667288'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/easter-2010.html' title='Easter 2010'/><author><name>Michelle Cotton</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14688766356309184142</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/S71OPbjePmI/AAAAAAAAAZM/G90TTyfB6U8/s72-c/DSC07472.JPG' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6773004471952737830.post-2226502757902978146</id><published>2010-04-03T20:37:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-04-07T20:42:07.151-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Coloring eggs</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/S71QSi43fHI/AAAAAAAAAZk/JqHgh4KUjZs/s1600/DSC07446.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/S71QSi43fHI/AAAAAAAAAZk/JqHgh4KUjZs/s320/DSC07446.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5457606602976099442" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Ashley painting and stamping her egg.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/S71QSWZDHkI/AAAAAAAAAZc/axsyZwuMDcg/s1600/DSC07449.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/S71QSWZDHkI/AAAAAAAAAZc/axsyZwuMDcg/s320/DSC07449.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5457606599621418562" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Grace's Star Wars fighter egg.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/S71QR5h5siI/AAAAAAAAAZU/2MSHTnzCtp0/s1600/DSC07450.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/S71QR5h5siI/AAAAAAAAAZU/2MSHTnzCtp0/s320/DSC07450.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5457606591873921570" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Will the Easter bunny like our eggs?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6773004471952737830-2226502757902978146?l=cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/2226502757902978146'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/2226502757902978146'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/coloring-eggs.html' title='Coloring eggs'/><author><name>Michelle Cotton</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14688766356309184142</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/S71QSi43fHI/AAAAAAAAAZk/JqHgh4KUjZs/s72-c/DSC07446.JPG' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6773004471952737830.post-6083244843855501790</id><published>2010-04-03T10:00:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-04-07T20:45:19.233-07:00</updated><title type='text'>New outfits from the Ticklemonsters</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/S71RBls00AI/AAAAAAAAAZs/GcSezRaKJhQ/s1600/DSC07429.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/S71RBls00AI/AAAAAAAAAZs/GcSezRaKJhQ/s320/DSC07429.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5457607411184750594" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;New matching outfits from Grandpa Schipper, Grandma Jean and Uncle Derek.  We are on our way to the St. John's Easter Egg hunt!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6773004471952737830-6083244843855501790?l=cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/6083244843855501790'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/6083244843855501790'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/new-outfits-from-ticklemonsters.html' title='New outfits from the Ticklemonsters'/><author><name>Michelle Cotton</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14688766356309184142</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/S71RBls00AI/AAAAAAAAAZs/GcSezRaKJhQ/s72-c/DSC07429.JPG' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6773004471952737830.post-2704356395161201823</id><published>2010-03-26T20:45:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-04-07T20:51:02.715-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Disneyland - Day 3</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/S71SMcwXopI/AAAAAAAAAaE/aCQ5vfO2G4w/s1600/DSC07387.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/S71SMcwXopI/AAAAAAAAAaE/aCQ5vfO2G4w/s320/DSC07387.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5457608697273885330" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Grandma Jean, Grandpa Schipper and Uncle Derek with the kiddos.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/S71SLv8ecJI/AAAAAAAAAZ8/L-wHH394PKM/s1600/DSC07411.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/S71SLv8ecJI/AAAAAAAAAZ8/L-wHH394PKM/s320/DSC07411.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5457608685245067410" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Ashley, Jessie, Woody and Grace.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/S71SK_RKbQI/AAAAAAAAAZ0/Va-ndyALauI/s1600/DSC07412.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/S71SK_RKbQI/AAAAAAAAAZ0/Va-ndyALauI/s320/DSC07412.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5457608672178498818" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;About to ride It's a small world...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6773004471952737830-2704356395161201823?l=cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/2704356395161201823'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/2704356395161201823'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com/2010/03/disneyland-day-3.html' title='Disneyland - Day 3'/><author><name>Michelle Cotton</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14688766356309184142</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/S71SMcwXopI/AAAAAAAAAaE/aCQ5vfO2G4w/s72-c/DSC07387.JPG' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6773004471952737830.post-5885780017142005918</id><published>2010-03-25T20:51:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-04-07T20:55:23.382-07:00</updated><title type='text'>California Adventure - Day 2</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/S71TS9Zj8pI/AAAAAAAAAaU/AQhYIHJB_es/s1600/DSC07374.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/S71TS9Zj8pI/AAAAAAAAAaU/AQhYIHJB_es/s320/DSC07374.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5457609908627436178" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Grace's first upside-down roller coaster ride!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/S71TSApndEI/AAAAAAAAAaM/larfehKfTcU/s1600/DSC07376.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/S71TSApndEI/AAAAAAAAAaM/larfehKfTcU/s320/DSC07376.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5457609892320212034" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;The grandparents and the kids waiting for the Electrical Parade.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6773004471952737830-5885780017142005918?l=cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/5885780017142005918'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/5885780017142005918'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com/2010/03/california-adventure-day-2.html' title='California Adventure - Day 2'/><author><name>Michelle Cotton</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14688766356309184142</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/S71TS9Zj8pI/AAAAAAAAAaU/AQhYIHJB_es/s72-c/DSC07374.JPG' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6773004471952737830.post-3951497294576836018</id><published>2010-03-18T20:55:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-04-07T20:58:10.745-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Visit with the Culver girls</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/S71ULBDua4I/AAAAAAAAAac/4kQc3P0tIbI/s1600/DSC07347.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/S71ULBDua4I/AAAAAAAAAac/4kQc3P0tIbI/s320/DSC07347.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5457610871682263938" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Fun, Fun, Fun!  Hanging with ladies and the babies....&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6773004471952737830-3951497294576836018?l=cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/3951497294576836018'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/3951497294576836018'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com/2010/03/visit-with-culver-girls.html' title='Visit with the Culver girls'/><author><name>Michelle Cotton</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14688766356309184142</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/S71ULBDua4I/AAAAAAAAAac/4kQc3P0tIbI/s72-c/DSC07347.JPG' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6773004471952737830.post-8465299924848036033</id><published>2010-02-21T15:00:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-04-07T21:01:44.375-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Our sled runs</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/S71U9T5xNpI/AAAAAAAAAak/vV9iMB4i8RI/s1600/DSC07321.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/S71U9T5xNpI/AAAAAAAAAak/vV9iMB4i8RI/s320/DSC07321.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5457611735734236818" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Grace and Ashley with their friends on our side-by-side sled runs.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6773004471952737830-8465299924848036033?l=cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/8465299924848036033'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/8465299924848036033'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com/2010/02/our-sled-runs.html' title='Our sled runs'/><author><name>Michelle Cotton</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14688766356309184142</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/S71U9T5xNpI/AAAAAAAAAak/vV9iMB4i8RI/s72-c/DSC07321.JPG' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6773004471952737830.post-4269479707438186507</id><published>2010-02-21T11:36:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2010-02-21T11:50:45.952-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Shoveling and Playing</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/S4GL6wIbRUI/AAAAAAAAAYs/2z2dGyioB7g/s1600-h/DSC07299.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/S4GL6wIbRUI/AAAAAAAAAYs/2z2dGyioB7g/s320/DSC07299.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5440783666309186882" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;After some pancakes the kids had plenty of energy to play in the snow.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/S4GL6VLdDcI/AAAAAAAAAYk/D17gBnFeDwE/s1600-h/DSC07310.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/S4GL6VLdDcI/AAAAAAAAAYk/D17gBnFeDwE/s320/DSC07310.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5440783659074129346" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Ashley buried in the snow.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/S4GL51bYxOI/AAAAAAAAAYc/NZNoM0tjHTU/s1600-h/DSC07311.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/S4GL51bYxOI/AAAAAAAAAYc/NZNoM0tjHTU/s320/DSC07311.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5440783650551022818" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Grace starting her snow man.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/S4GL5fPDaYI/AAAAAAAAAYU/CgUfu-UhEPQ/s1600-h/DSC07314.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/S4GL5fPDaYI/AAAAAAAAAYU/CgUfu-UhEPQ/s320/DSC07314.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5440783644593711490" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;I guess there will be no riding bikes today!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6773004471952737830-4269479707438186507?l=cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/4269479707438186507'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/4269479707438186507'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com/2010/02/shoveling-and-playing.html' title='Shoveling and Playing'/><author><name>Michelle Cotton</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14688766356309184142</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/S4GL6wIbRUI/AAAAAAAAAYs/2z2dGyioB7g/s72-c/DSC07299.JPG' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6773004471952737830.post-4345325980239607040</id><published>2010-02-21T08:27:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-02-21T08:31:13.362-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Good Morning Snow</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/S4FfNZH-kKI/AAAAAAAAAYE/vSlMKM7p_ew/s1600-h/DSC07295.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/S4FfNZH-kKI/AAAAAAAAAYE/vSlMKM7p_ew/s320/DSC07295.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5440734508527554722" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;The weather man said we'd have some rain.....&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/S4FfM3KEQhI/AAAAAAAAAX8/5_kod1sEXiQ/s1600-h/DSC07294.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/S4FfM3KEQhI/AAAAAAAAAX8/5_kod1sEXiQ/s320/DSC07294.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5440734499409510930" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Will the excitement of having snow ever wear off for us Los Angeles natives?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6773004471952737830-4345325980239607040?l=cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/4345325980239607040'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/4345325980239607040'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com/2010/02/good-morning-snow.html' title='Good Morning Snow'/><author><name>Michelle Cotton</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14688766356309184142</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/S4FfNZH-kKI/AAAAAAAAAYE/vSlMKM7p_ew/s72-c/DSC07295.JPG' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6773004471952737830.post-1348341685525716884</id><published>2010-02-18T21:23:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-02-21T08:33:11.575-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Grace's 1st Ski Lesson!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/S4FgGQlrTCI/AAAAAAAAAYM/CXq9zaXxUJk/s1600-h/DSC07253.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/S4FgGQlrTCI/AAAAAAAAAYM/CXq9zaXxUJk/s320/DSC07253.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5440735485488745506" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Nick, Grace and Sofia getting ready for their lessons.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/S4DE45rMEbI/AAAAAAAAAXU/OYtlDR3Gl9c/s1600-h/DSC07256.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/S4DE45rMEbI/AAAAAAAAAXU/OYtlDR3Gl9c/s320/DSC07256.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5440564831697244594" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Grace heading out with her instructor.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/S4DE4JeviyI/AAAAAAAAAXM/IlxipT6Ftoo/s1600-h/DSC07260.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/S4DE4JeviyI/AAAAAAAAAXM/IlxipT6Ftoo/s320/DSC07260.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5440564818760141602" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Grace and her instructor on the chairlift (her friends Nick and Sofia are right in front of her).&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/S4DE3Gc1tKI/AAAAAAAAAXE/fYVFspgMFZM/s1600-h/DSC07263.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/S4DE3Gc1tKI/AAAAAAAAAXE/fYVFspgMFZM/s320/DSC07263.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5440564800766981282" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Snowplowing down the hill.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/S4DE2eQ7y7I/AAAAAAAAAW8/1P1_7coVHAQ/s1600-h/DSC07287.JPG" style="text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/S4DE2eQ7y7I/AAAAAAAAAW8/1P1_7coVHAQ/s320/DSC07287.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5440564789979630514" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Completed level "turtle"!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6773004471952737830-1348341685525716884?l=cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/1348341685525716884'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/1348341685525716884'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com/2010/02/graces-1st-ski-lesson.html' title='Grace&apos;s 1st Ski Lesson!'/><author><name>Michelle Cotton</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14688766356309184142</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/S4FgGQlrTCI/AAAAAAAAAYM/CXq9zaXxUJk/s72-c/DSC07253.JPG' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6773004471952737830.post-6677693298648707307</id><published>2010-02-15T20:50:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-02-20T20:53:45.600-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Grace lost her 1st tooth!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/S4C8F_SQY9I/AAAAAAAAAVc/rtIbfYzegDU/s1600-h/DSC07248.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/S4C8F_SQY9I/AAAAAAAAAVc/rtIbfYzegDU/s320/DSC07248.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5440555160936932306" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;The night before Grace went to the dentist she pulled her first tooth out!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6773004471952737830-6677693298648707307?l=cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/6677693298648707307'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/6677693298648707307'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com/2010/02/grace-lost-her-1st-tooth.html' title='Grace lost her 1st tooth!'/><author><name>Michelle Cotton</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14688766356309184142</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/S4C8F_SQY9I/AAAAAAAAAVc/rtIbfYzegDU/s72-c/DSC07248.JPG' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6773004471952737830.post-629048518985288749</id><published>2010-02-14T20:40:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-02-20T20:50:44.200-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Valentine's Day 2010!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#0000EE;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style=""&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/S4C6Po4epcI/AAAAAAAAAVE/AFa_cY7p2GQ/s1600-h/DSC07241.JPG" style="text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/S4C6Po4epcI/AAAAAAAAAVE/AFa_cY7p2GQ/s320/DSC07241.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5440553127698671042" /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#000000;"&gt;The girls getting ready to go to school for their Valentine's Day class parties on Friday.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "&gt;&lt;img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/S4C6QIZzSNI/AAAAAAAAAVM/NXYre-0xOFI/s320/DSC07244.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5440553136159934674" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px; " /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Valentine's Day Breakfast....Yummy!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#0000EE;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#0000EE;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style=""&gt;&lt;img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/S4C6QqP1xNI/AAAAAAAAAVU/-kaaGPAi29c/s320/DSC07245.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5440553145244959954" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px; " /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Our Valentine's Day brownie cake&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6773004471952737830-629048518985288749?l=cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/629048518985288749'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/629048518985288749'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com/2010/02/valentines-day-2010.html' title='Valentine&apos;s Day 2010!'/><author><name>Michelle Cotton</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14688766356309184142</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/S4C6Po4epcI/AAAAAAAAAVE/AFa_cY7p2GQ/s72-c/DSC07241.JPG' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6773004471952737830.post-6202369447758814615</id><published>2010-02-08T20:54:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-02-20T20:58:34.909-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Random Pics of Grace and Ashley</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/S4C88zpMlFI/AAAAAAAAAVs/LPONlEF6Vjg/s1600-h/DSC07234.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/S4C88zpMlFI/AAAAAAAAAVs/LPONlEF6Vjg/s320/DSC07234.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5440556102704731218" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Sisters playing dress-up.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/S4C88fSpzFI/AAAAAAAAAVk/1LMRsu_ZgKQ/s1600-h/DSC07239.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/S4C88fSpzFI/AAAAAAAAAVk/1LMRsu_ZgKQ/s320/DSC07239.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5440556097241467986" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Just couldn't resist snapping a quick pick of the girls in their matching outfits.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6773004471952737830-6202369447758814615?l=cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/6202369447758814615'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/6202369447758814615'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com/2010/02/random-pics-of-grace-and-ashley.html' title='Random Pics of Grace and Ashley'/><author><name>Michelle Cotton</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14688766356309184142</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/S4C88zpMlFI/AAAAAAAAAVs/LPONlEF6Vjg/s72-c/DSC07234.JPG' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6773004471952737830.post-1279651845094980354</id><published>2010-01-30T20:58:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-02-20T21:04:14.232-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Grace's 6th Birthday Party</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/S4C-WZ4EigI/AAAAAAAAAV8/lleLqr34J5A/s1600-h/DSC07219.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/S4C-WZ4EigI/AAAAAAAAAV8/lleLqr34J5A/s320/DSC07219.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5440557641976023554" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Grace and her "Littlest Pet Shop" birthday themed cake.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/S4C-V1A6akI/AAAAAAAAAV0/bkyXRq3yCMU/s1600-h/DSC07221.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/S4C-V1A6akI/AAAAAAAAAV0/bkyXRq3yCMU/s320/DSC07221.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5440557632080996930" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Grace had a wonderful party at the Coconut Bowl with many friends there to celebrate.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6773004471952737830-1279651845094980354?l=cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/1279651845094980354'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/1279651845094980354'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/graces-6th-birthday-party.html' title='Grace&apos;s 6th Birthday Party'/><author><name>Michelle Cotton</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14688766356309184142</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/S4C-WZ4EigI/AAAAAAAAAV8/lleLqr34J5A/s72-c/DSC07219.JPG' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6773004471952737830.post-2517418960491716840</id><published>2010-01-27T21:07:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-02-20T21:13:18.926-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Grace turns 6 years old!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/S4DAk9n1IuI/AAAAAAAAAWc/KkAv-irZRoM/s1600-h/DSC07198.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/S4DAk9n1IuI/AAAAAAAAAWc/KkAv-irZRoM/s320/DSC07198.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5440560091113005794" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;The big 6 year old!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/S4DAkuaaMKI/AAAAAAAAAWU/9hfthxn5Yq0/s1600-h/DSC07200.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/S4DAkuaaMKI/AAAAAAAAAWU/9hfthxn5Yq0/s320/DSC07200.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5440560087030182050" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Showing off her manicure, new ring and all her presents.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/S4DAjzGhM4I/AAAAAAAAAWM/p0Alwy_Zgro/s1600-h/DSC07203.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/S4DAjzGhM4I/AAAAAAAAAWM/p0Alwy_Zgro/s320/DSC07203.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5440560071109063554" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6773004471952737830-2517418960491716840?l=cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/2517418960491716840'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/2517418960491716840'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/grace-turns-6-years-old.html' title='Grace turns 6 years old!'/><author><name>Michelle Cotton</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14688766356309184142</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/S4DAk9n1IuI/AAAAAAAAAWc/KkAv-irZRoM/s72-c/DSC07198.JPG' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6773004471952737830.post-216707680867884261</id><published>2010-01-20T21:04:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-02-20T21:07:18.047-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Snowy Day</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/S4C_bmSfkTI/AAAAAAAAAWE/k7WLcMoH5xM/s1600-h/DSC07189.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/S4C_bmSfkTI/AAAAAAAAAWE/k7WLcMoH5xM/s320/DSC07189.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5440558830719045938" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Catching some snowflakes.....&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6773004471952737830-216707680867884261?l=cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/216707680867884261'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/216707680867884261'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/snowy-day.html' title='Snowy Day'/><author><name>Michelle Cotton</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14688766356309184142</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/S4C_bmSfkTI/AAAAAAAAAWE/k7WLcMoH5xM/s72-c/DSC07189.JPG' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6773004471952737830.post-677646400815217311</id><published>2009-12-31T21:41:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-02-20T21:55:09.928-08:00</updated><title type='text'>New Year's Eve</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/S4DJAFTOJKI/AAAAAAAAAX0/AkTtxIGyj98/s1600-h/DSC07155.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/S4DJAFTOJKI/AAAAAAAAAX0/AkTtxIGyj98/s320/DSC07155.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5440569353123538082" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;The Cotton Family&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/S4DI-zgw8OI/AAAAAAAAAXs/lukMWQcAkRI/s1600-h/DSC07157.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/S4DI-zgw8OI/AAAAAAAAAXs/lukMWQcAkRI/s320/DSC07157.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5440569331168637154" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;The Jewell Family&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/S4DI-CktzbI/AAAAAAAAAXk/HkyF_Ep4l7g/s1600-h/DSC07163.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/S4DI-CktzbI/AAAAAAAAAXk/HkyF_Ep4l7g/s320/DSC07163.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5440569318031871410" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Sis-in-laws&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/S4DI9B4-ljI/AAAAAAAAAXc/Cma17FL-pNE/s1600-h/DSC07171.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/S4DI9B4-ljI/AAAAAAAAAXc/Cma17FL-pNE/s320/DSC07171.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5440569300668552754" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;The cousins bringing in the new year&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6773004471952737830-677646400815217311?l=cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/677646400815217311'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/677646400815217311'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com/2009/12/new-years-eve.html' title='New Year&apos;s Eve'/><author><name>Michelle Cotton</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14688766356309184142</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/S4DJAFTOJKI/AAAAAAAAAX0/AkTtxIGyj98/s72-c/DSC07155.JPG' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6773004471952737830.post-4822640255323056043</id><published>2009-12-24T21:17:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-02-20T21:20:57.075-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Christmas Day 2009</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/S4DChBcr53I/AAAAAAAAAW0/jhY-OWtz0us/s1600-h/DSC07103.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/S4DChBcr53I/AAAAAAAAAW0/jhY-OWtz0us/s320/DSC07103.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5440562222443784050" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/S4DCgPltd7I/AAAAAAAAAWs/Gi_uK2gKhjg/s1600-h/DSC07093.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/S4DCgPltd7I/AAAAAAAAAWs/Gi_uK2gKhjg/s320/DSC07093.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5440562209059862450" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;The girls open presents from Santa!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6773004471952737830-4822640255323056043?l=cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/4822640255323056043'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/4822640255323056043'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com/2009/12/christmas-day-2009.html' title='Christmas Day 2009'/><author><name>Michelle Cotton</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14688766356309184142</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/S4DChBcr53I/AAAAAAAAAW0/jhY-OWtz0us/s72-c/DSC07103.JPG' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6773004471952737830.post-8210275181122817055</id><published>2009-12-24T21:13:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-02-20T21:17:08.675-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Christmas Eve 2009</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/S4DBgGs2eqI/AAAAAAAAAWk/Tta0kFK7KVQ/s1600-h/DSC07077.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/S4DBgGs2eqI/AAAAAAAAAWk/Tta0kFK7KVQ/s320/DSC07077.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5440561107162266274" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;All the cousins getting ready for Santa to come.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6773004471952737830-8210275181122817055?l=cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/8210275181122817055'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/8210275181122817055'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com/2009/12/christmas-eve-2009.html' title='Christmas Eve 2009'/><author><name>Michelle Cotton</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14688766356309184142</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/S4DBgGs2eqI/AAAAAAAAAWk/Tta0kFK7KVQ/s72-c/DSC07077.JPG' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6773004471952737830.post-3540062686545531739</id><published>2009-12-17T22:15:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-12-17T22:18:16.059-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Our sweet girls</title><content type='html'>&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SysePBr0vsI/AAAAAAAAAUs/OueGZjEvStk/s320/DSC07010.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5416456220342271682" /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/Sysehce4XvI/AAAAAAAAAU0/07UPUAPdyno/s1600-h/DSC07007.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/Sysehce4XvI/AAAAAAAAAU0/07UPUAPdyno/s320/DSC07007.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5416456536773385970" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6773004471952737830-3540062686545531739?l=cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/3540062686545531739'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/3540062686545531739'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com/2009/12/our-sweet-girls.html' title='Our sweet girls'/><author><name>Michelle Cotton</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14688766356309184142</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SysePBr0vsI/AAAAAAAAAUs/OueGZjEvStk/s72-c/DSC07010.JPG' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6773004471952737830.post-8355969592514837407</id><published>2009-12-17T22:09:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2009-12-17T22:27:45.391-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Grace's Holiday Sing-a-long</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SysdmD5xt6I/AAAAAAAAAUk/FvhDDr0W_t4/s1600-h/DSC06983.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SysdmD5xt6I/AAAAAAAAAUk/FvhDDr0W_t4/s320/DSC06983.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5416455516563027874" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Ashley grooving to the music.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/Sysdludw7aI/AAAAAAAAAUc/x_c4F8cM1B0/s1600-h/DSC06997.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/Sysdludw7aI/AAAAAAAAAUc/x_c4F8cM1B0/s320/DSC06997.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5416455510808391074" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Grace's kindergarten class.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SysdlCJA_gI/AAAAAAAAAUU/2-KbcUpdzf0/s1600-h/DSC06994.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SysdlCJA_gI/AAAAAAAAAUU/2-KbcUpdzf0/s320/DSC06994.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5416455498910203394" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Our star!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SysdkhTlqOI/AAAAAAAAAUM/Dh1dM3oKU1M/s1600-h/DSC07000.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SysdkhTlqOI/AAAAAAAAAUM/Dh1dM3oKU1M/s320/DSC07000.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5416455490096179426" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Hot cocoa mustache after all that work!&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SysgnGRnPII/AAAAAAAAAU8/jXE4CsSWD3Y/s320/DSC07002.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5416458832914627714" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px; " /&gt;Grace and Ashley with their best pals Melody and Jessica.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6773004471952737830-8355969592514837407?l=cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/8355969592514837407'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/8355969592514837407'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com/2009/12/graces-holiday-sing-long.html' title='Grace&apos;s Holiday Sing-a-long'/><author><name>Michelle Cotton</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14688766356309184142</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SysdmD5xt6I/AAAAAAAAAUk/FvhDDr0W_t4/s72-c/DSC06983.JPG' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6773004471952737830.post-6060779755944100253</id><published>2009-12-15T22:03:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-12-17T22:08:43.624-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Our icicle cake</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/Sysb57RAEUI/AAAAAAAAAUE/qUZtrJOI4oo/s1600-h/DSC06975.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/Sysb57RAEUI/AAAAAAAAAUE/qUZtrJOI4oo/s320/DSC06975.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5416453658818646338" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Icicles on our back deck.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/Sysb5WV11EI/AAAAAAAAAT8/c5cpwDrores/s1600-h/DSC06979.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/Sysb5WV11EI/AAAAAAAAAT8/c5cpwDrores/s320/DSC06979.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5416453648906835010" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Our fantastic icicle cake!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/Sysb4xwNquI/AAAAAAAAAT0/X5fbxDs5mRY/s1600-h/DSC06978.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/Sysb4xwNquI/AAAAAAAAAT0/X5fbxDs5mRY/s320/DSC06978.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5416453639085337314" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Oh what fun things we can come up with....&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6773004471952737830-6060779755944100253?l=cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/6060779755944100253'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/6060779755944100253'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com/2009/12/our-icicle-cake.html' title='Our icicle cake'/><author><name>Michelle Cotton</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14688766356309184142</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/Sysb57RAEUI/AAAAAAAAAUE/qUZtrJOI4oo/s72-c/DSC06975.JPG' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6773004471952737830.post-5245479228264932054</id><published>2009-12-13T21:59:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-12-17T22:28:42.201-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Fresh Reno Snow Cones!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SysbC4l-83I/AAAAAAAAATs/Jh2JR0mAan4/s1600-h/DSC06972.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SysbC4l-83I/AAAAAAAAATs/Jh2JR0mAan4/s320/DSC06972.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5416452713208542066" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SysbCfM2UxI/AAAAAAAAATk/GLqmlbLKMbk/s1600-h/DSC06973.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SysbCfM2UxI/AAAAAAAAATk/GLqmlbLKMbk/s320/DSC06973.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5416452706392232722" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SysbBxESa5I/AAAAAAAAATc/ueUIbRynZJc/s1600-h/DSC06971.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SysbBxESa5I/AAAAAAAAATc/ueUIbRynZJc/s320/DSC06971.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5416452694008294290" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Homemade snowcones...watermelon, cherry and blue raspberry....best snow cones in town!&lt;div&gt;Ashley, Grace and Catalina enjoyed them despite the freezing cold weather.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6773004471952737830-5245479228264932054?l=cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/5245479228264932054'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/5245479228264932054'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com/2009/12/fresh-reno-snow-cones.html' title='Fresh Reno Snow Cones!'/><author><name>Michelle Cotton</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14688766356309184142</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SysbC4l-83I/AAAAAAAAATs/Jh2JR0mAan4/s72-c/DSC06972.JPG' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6773004471952737830.post-1254351462828298358</id><published>2009-12-13T21:56:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-12-17T21:59:27.079-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Our neighborhood birds</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SysaD5vJFHI/AAAAAAAAATU/MMfrwIP-VFM/s1600-h/DSC06963.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SysaD5vJFHI/AAAAAAAAATU/MMfrwIP-VFM/s320/DSC06963.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5416451631183631474" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Quail in the apple tree.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SysaDaKTnGI/AAAAAAAAATM/8gPDvghPCI4/s1600-h/DSC06961.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SysaDaKTnGI/AAAAAAAAATM/8gPDvghPCI4/s320/DSC06961.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5416451622707633250" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Blue Blue waiting for some peanuts.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6773004471952737830-1254351462828298358?l=cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/1254351462828298358'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/1254351462828298358'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com/2009/12/our-neighborhood-birds.html' title='Our neighborhood birds'/><author><name>Michelle Cotton</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14688766356309184142</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SysaD5vJFHI/AAAAAAAAATU/MMfrwIP-VFM/s72-c/DSC06963.JPG' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6773004471952737830.post-1423878861177087140</id><published>2009-12-13T07:37:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-12-13T07:46:30.664-08:00</updated><title type='text'>White Christmas again this year...</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="white-space: pre; font-family:'Lucida Grande';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;I'm dreaming of a white Christmas.....No I'm not!!!  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="white-space: pre; font-family:'Lucida Grande';"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;I think we'll be having another one this year.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'Lucida Grande', serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;I took these pictures early this morning.  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'Lucida Grande', serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Most of the trees are slumping down because of the weight of the snow.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'Lucida Grande', serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;It is so still out except for the occasional snow falling from the trees or &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'Lucida Grande', serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;a bird flying by.  Just another day of God's beauty!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'Lucida Grande', serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;How lucky we are.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SyULsRTBq4I/AAAAAAAAAS8/nmA9MelaE1M/s1600-h/DSC06957.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SyULsRTBq4I/AAAAAAAAAS8/nmA9MelaE1M/s320/DSC06957.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5414746982168243074" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SyULr3W3LLI/AAAAAAAAAS0/eebPodnIFWo/s1600-h/DSC06956.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SyULr3W3LLI/AAAAAAAAAS0/eebPodnIFWo/s320/DSC06956.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5414746975205010610" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SyULrdDOMcI/AAAAAAAAASs/CGcnYfqUoNo/s1600-h/DSC06955.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SyULrdDOMcI/AAAAAAAAASs/CGcnYfqUoNo/s320/DSC06955.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5414746968143311298" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SyULq0QckAI/AAAAAAAAASk/Y8y-MveAHAE/s1600-h/DSC06954.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SyULq0QckAI/AAAAAAAAASk/Y8y-MveAHAE/s320/DSC06954.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5414746957192925186" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'Lucida Grande', serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style=" white-space: pre;font-size:-webkit-xxx-large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   style="font-family:'Lucida Grande', serif;font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style=" white-space: pre;font-size:11px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   style="font-family:'Lucida Grande', serif;font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style=" white-space: pre;font-size:11px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   style="font-family:'Lucida Grande', serif;font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style=" white-space: pre;font-size:11px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6773004471952737830-1423878861177087140?l=cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/1423878861177087140'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/1423878861177087140'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com/2009/12/white-christmas-again-this-year.html' title='White Christmas again this year...'/><author><name>Michelle Cotton</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14688766356309184142</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SyULsRTBq4I/AAAAAAAAAS8/nmA9MelaE1M/s72-c/DSC06957.JPG' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6773004471952737830.post-6635713837226830875</id><published>2009-12-11T21:52:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-12-17T21:55:11.449-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Mother's Tea at School</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SysY_Y2jSEI/AAAAAAAAATE/3oZ0PQIF50Y/s1600-h/IMG_0081.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SysY_Y2jSEI/AAAAAAAAATE/3oZ0PQIF50Y/s320/IMG_0081.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5416450454125234242" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Me and my girls.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6773004471952737830-6635713837226830875?l=cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/6635713837226830875'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/6635713837226830875'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com/2009/12/mothers-tea-at-school.html' title='Mother&apos;s Tea at School'/><author><name>Michelle Cotton</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14688766356309184142</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SysY_Y2jSEI/AAAAAAAAATE/3oZ0PQIF50Y/s72-c/IMG_0081.JPG' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6773004471952737830.post-3512383488211075726</id><published>2009-12-11T07:33:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-12-13T07:37:49.551-08:00</updated><title type='text'>O Christmas Tree!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SyUJwa-OYNI/AAAAAAAAASc/i9ES0K_Ee8g/s1600-h/DSC06952.JPG"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SyUJv6LT-mI/AAAAAAAAASU/TAjLDn1cFJU/s1600-h/DSC06950.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SyUJv6LT-mI/AAAAAAAAASU/TAjLDn1cFJU/s320/DSC06950.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5414744845658094178" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;While it snowed outside, we got our Christmas tree up.  Not quite as tall as last year (and because of the snow we couldn't go cut it down ourselves) but it will do just fine!&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "&gt;&lt;img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SyUJwa-OYNI/AAAAAAAAASc/i9ES0K_Ee8g/s320/DSC06952.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5414744854461571282" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px; " /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6773004471952737830-3512383488211075726?l=cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/3512383488211075726'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/3512383488211075726'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com/2009/12/o-christmas-tree.html' title='O Christmas Tree!'/><author><name>Michelle Cotton</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14688766356309184142</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SyUJv6LT-mI/AAAAAAAAASU/TAjLDn1cFJU/s72-c/DSC06950.JPG' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6773004471952737830.post-1371871230764018976</id><published>2009-12-08T22:32:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2009-12-08T22:36:06.218-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Let it snow, Let it snow, Let it snow!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/Sx9E8cyMrpI/AAAAAAAAAR0/uFYHO4zJJU4/s1600-h/DSC06936.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/Sx9E8cyMrpI/AAAAAAAAAR0/uFYHO4zJJU4/s320/DSC06936.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5413121082432204434" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/Sx9E7vxibII/AAAAAAAAARs/jhROcakQB6s/s1600-h/DSC06938.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/Sx9E7vxibII/AAAAAAAAARs/jhROcakQB6s/s320/DSC06938.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5413121070349839490" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;And more snow is expected later in the week!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6773004471952737830-1371871230764018976?l=cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/1371871230764018976'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/1371871230764018976'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com/2009/12/let-it-snow-let-it-snow-let-it-snow.html' title='Let it snow, Let it snow, Let it snow!'/><author><name>Michelle Cotton</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14688766356309184142</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/Sx9E8cyMrpI/AAAAAAAAAR0/uFYHO4zJJU4/s72-c/DSC06936.JPG' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6773004471952737830.post-6151902553031183648</id><published>2009-12-03T21:34:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-12-10T21:41:49.471-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Disneyland - December 2009</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SyHbJhM0DUI/AAAAAAAAASM/gv1QhLQ8CL4/s1600-h/DSC06831.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SyHbJhM0DUI/AAAAAAAAASM/gv1QhLQ8CL4/s320/DSC06831.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5413849183653465410" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;It's a small world with Uncle Michael.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SyHbJNLjMaI/AAAAAAAAASE/QYR6eNKVn30/s1600-h/DSC06841.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SyHbJNLjMaI/AAAAAAAAASE/QYR6eNKVn30/s320/DSC06841.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5413849178279457186" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Trying to pull out the sword in the stone.  We were not strong enough!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SyHbIaB-O2I/AAAAAAAAAR8/MdxZF2S8cAs/s1600-h/DSC06855.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SyHbIaB-O2I/AAAAAAAAAR8/MdxZF2S8cAs/s320/DSC06855.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5413849164549077858" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;What a great day!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6773004471952737830-6151902553031183648?l=cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/6151902553031183648'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/6151902553031183648'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com/2009/12/disneyland-december-2009.html' title='Disneyland - December 2009'/><author><name>Michelle Cotton</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14688766356309184142</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SyHbJhM0DUI/AAAAAAAAASM/gv1QhLQ8CL4/s72-c/DSC06831.JPG' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6773004471952737830.post-7661516969296443071</id><published>2009-11-11T00:34:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2009-11-11T00:43:14.551-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Hiroshima, Japan (IETF-76 Meeting)</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/Svp3UzY5AiI/AAAAAAAAARk/vx0xDU7Uy4o/s1600-h/2009+11+10_Japan_0012_edited-1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/Svp3UzY5AiI/AAAAAAAAARk/vx0xDU7Uy4o/s320/2009+11+10_Japan_0012_edited-1.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5402761902260027938" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Miyajima - Itsukushima Shrine&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/Svp3UpCe8nI/AAAAAAAAARc/dMAsiEkLk2s/s1600-h/2009+11+10_Japan_0009_edited-1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/Svp3UpCe8nI/AAAAAAAAARc/dMAsiEkLk2s/s320/2009+11+10_Japan_0009_edited-1.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5402761899481690738" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Miyajima - Otorii (Grand Gate)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/Svp3UcySHQI/AAAAAAAAARU/u5Ola9qLJ5s/s1600-h/2009+11+10_Japan_0031_edited-1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/Svp3UcySHQI/AAAAAAAAARU/u5Ola9qLJ5s/s320/2009+11+10_Japan_0031_edited-1.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5402761896192515330" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Eating the specialty on the island...Oysters!  Don't love them, but had to try them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/Svp3UDA76OI/AAAAAAAAARM/EtAnBObMrEE/s1600-h/2009+11+08_Japan_0069_edited-1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/Svp3UDA76OI/AAAAAAAAARM/EtAnBObMrEE/s320/2009+11+08_Japan_0069_edited-1.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5402761889274652898" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Derek Atkins and I at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial with the A-Bomb Dome in the background.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/Svp3T4G93MI/AAAAAAAAARE/M59jF30gw8U/s1600-h/2009+11+10_Japan_0037_edited-1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/Svp3T4G93MI/AAAAAAAAARE/M59jF30gw8U/s320/2009+11+10_Japan_0037_edited-1.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5402761886347156674" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;All over the city they welcomed all the IETF'ers.  The mayor of Hiroshima wanted to practice as they want to host the Olympics in the near future.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Thanks to Mark McFadden for taking all the photos.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6773004471952737830-7661516969296443071?l=cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/7661516969296443071'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/7661516969296443071'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com/2009/11/hiroshima-japan-ietf-76-meeting.html' title='Hiroshima, Japan (IETF-76 Meeting)'/><author><name>Michelle Cotton</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14688766356309184142</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/Svp3UzY5AiI/AAAAAAAAARk/vx0xDU7Uy4o/s72-c/2009+11+10_Japan_0012_edited-1.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6773004471952737830.post-1285488086748975089</id><published>2009-10-31T23:24:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-11-01T00:34:54.382-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Halloween 2009!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/Su045tOCRWI/AAAAAAAAAQ0/F03yyP9U3Tg/s1600-h/DSC06591.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/Su045tOCRWI/AAAAAAAAAQ0/F03yyP9U3Tg/s320/DSC06591.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5399034092329256290" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Cinderella waiting for her pumpkin to turn into a coach!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/Su045NOFOoI/AAAAAAAAAQs/s3yTyFrE4eQ/s1600-h/DSC06599.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/Su045NOFOoI/AAAAAAAAAQs/s3yTyFrE4eQ/s320/DSC06599.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5399034083739515522" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Happy Halloween everyone!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/Su044tlg30I/AAAAAAAAAQk/dD4-_3by2-A/s1600-h/DSC06594.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/Su044tlg30I/AAAAAAAAAQk/dD4-_3by2-A/s320/DSC06594.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5399034075247861570" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Tinkerbell about to take flight with a little bit of pixie dust!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/Su044IYxcoI/AAAAAAAAAQc/KZYwCCOSeFc/s1600-h/DSC06639.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/Su044IYxcoI/AAAAAAAAAQc/KZYwCCOSeFc/s320/DSC06639.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5399034065262310018" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Grace is ready for trick or treating....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/Su0432FPauI/AAAAAAAAAQU/OWGmrYLmYNE/s1600-h/DSC06637.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/Su0432FPauI/AAAAAAAAAQU/OWGmrYLmYNE/s320/DSC06637.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5399034060348549858" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Does Ashley not look like a miniature version of Cinderella?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6773004471952737830-1285488086748975089?l=cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/1285488086748975089'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/1285488086748975089'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com/2009/10/halloween-2009.html' title='Halloween 2009!'/><author><name>Michelle Cotton</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14688766356309184142</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/Su045tOCRWI/AAAAAAAAAQ0/F03yyP9U3Tg/s72-c/DSC06591.JPG' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6773004471952737830.post-7381849674761552</id><published>2009-10-24T00:35:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-11-01T00:38:22.615-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Saturday Morning Breakfast</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/Su06r6T5gZI/AAAAAAAAAQ8/vl7gjgbyYQE/s1600-h/DSC06589.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/Su06r6T5gZI/AAAAAAAAAQ8/vl7gjgbyYQE/s320/DSC06589.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5399036054348595602" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Look what Mima started....now the girls want breakfast on their trays while watching cartoons up in Reno too!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6773004471952737830-7381849674761552?l=cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/7381849674761552'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/7381849674761552'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com/2009/10/saturday-morning-breakfast.html' title='Saturday Morning Breakfast'/><author><name>Michelle Cotton</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14688766356309184142</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/Su06r6T5gZI/AAAAAAAAAQ8/vl7gjgbyYQE/s72-c/DSC06589.JPG' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6773004471952737830.post-7263487451082525033</id><published>2009-10-18T13:03:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-18T13:21:32.266-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Washoe Run for Education</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/Stt4IpYVEOI/AAAAAAAAAQE/rRIs-Y3yb0s/s1600-h/photo-3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/Stt4IpYVEOI/AAAAAAAAAQE/rRIs-Y3yb0s/s320/photo-3.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5394037068648485090" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Hanging with friends before the kid's race.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/Stt1VtwNIdI/AAAAAAAAAPs/ns5MnI1CJ4s/s1600-h/DSC06561.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/Stt1VtwNIdI/AAAAAAAAAPs/ns5MnI1CJ4s/s320/DSC06561.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5394033994625786322" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;After Mom ran the 5k, Grace did the kid's fun run!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/Stt1U3ZMZ8I/AAAAAAAAAPk/ApQVdGqgwfA/s1600-h/DSC06562.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/Stt1U3ZMZ8I/AAAAAAAAAPk/ApQVdGqgwfA/s320/DSC06562.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5394033980033755074" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Here we are with our medals!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6773004471952737830-7263487451082525033?l=cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/7263487451082525033'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/7263487451082525033'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com/2009/10/washoe-run-for-education.html' title='Washoe Run for Education'/><author><name>Michelle Cotton</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14688766356309184142</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/Stt4IpYVEOI/AAAAAAAAAQE/rRIs-Y3yb0s/s72-c/photo-3.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6773004471952737830.post-5408776215159314953</id><published>2009-10-17T13:08:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-18T13:14:50.662-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Hanging with Mima and Papa</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/Stt243hsGyI/AAAAAAAAAP8/OY-gwtOG9f8/s1600-h/DSC06552_2.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/Stt243hsGyI/AAAAAAAAAP8/OY-gwtOG9f8/s320/DSC06552_2.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5394035698056305442" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Standing with the fire maple tree.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/Stt24boJquI/AAAAAAAAAP0/Lisa3VhYs2g/s1600-h/DSC06557.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/Stt24boJquI/AAAAAAAAAP0/Lisa3VhYs2g/s320/DSC06557.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5394035690567215842" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Celebrating Papa's birthday a little early.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6773004471952737830-5408776215159314953?l=cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/5408776215159314953'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/5408776215159314953'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com/2009/10/hanging-with-mima-and-papa.html' title='Hanging with Mima and Papa'/><author><name>Michelle Cotton</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14688766356309184142</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/Stt243hsGyI/AAAAAAAAAP8/OY-gwtOG9f8/s72-c/DSC06552_2.JPG' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6773004471952737830.post-6668273271792934984</id><published>2009-10-09T20:45:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-09T20:51:34.600-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Scarecrow Festival</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/StAEO57fCZI/AAAAAAAAAOk/drekyi2eweM/s1600-h/DSC06481.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/StAEO57fCZI/AAAAAAAAAOk/drekyi2eweM/s320/DSC06481.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5390813408077482386" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Snow cones....yeah!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/StAEOBB-7bI/AAAAAAAAAOc/IqLeej0n00g/s1600-h/DSC06476.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/StAEOBB-7bI/AAAAAAAAAOc/IqLeej0n00g/s320/DSC06476.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5390813392803917234" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;The Kindergarten entry for the Scarecrow contest (our scarecrow was in the form of a butterfly) won the Judge's Choice Award!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6773004471952737830-6668273271792934984?l=cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/6668273271792934984'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/6668273271792934984'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com/2009/10/scarecrow-festival.html' title='Scarecrow Festival'/><author><name>Michelle Cotton</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14688766356309184142</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/StAEO57fCZI/AAAAAAAAAOk/drekyi2eweM/s72-c/DSC06481.JPG' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6773004471952737830.post-7041254360743116750</id><published>2009-09-28T21:04:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-09T21:09:00.770-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Celebrating Derek's 21st Birthday</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/StAIhlY0t5I/AAAAAAAAAPc/w546OB9gQkg/s1600-h/DSC06348.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/StAIhlY0t5I/AAAAAAAAAPc/w546OB9gQkg/s320/DSC06348.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5390818127027419026" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;After a yummy dinner the siblings went out for a little gambling at the Peppermill.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/StAIg06pOEI/AAAAAAAAAPU/ggVzL3ruvqo/s1600-h/DSC06346.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/StAIg06pOEI/AAAAAAAAAPU/ggVzL3ruvqo/s320/DSC06346.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5390818114015934530" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Derek was the big winner!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6773004471952737830-7041254360743116750?l=cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/7041254360743116750'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/7041254360743116750'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com/2009/09/celebrating-dereks-21st-birthday.html' title='Celebrating Derek&apos;s 21st Birthday'/><author><name>Michelle Cotton</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14688766356309184142</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/StAIhlY0t5I/AAAAAAAAAPc/w546OB9gQkg/s72-c/DSC06348.JPG' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6773004471952737830.post-2823527828504257039</id><published>2009-09-27T21:01:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-09T21:04:06.056-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Chocolate Nugget Candy Factory</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/StAHfXEunyI/AAAAAAAAAPM/QvNdjLpIxLQ/s1600-h/DSC06337.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/StAHfXEunyI/AAAAAAAAAPM/QvNdjLpIxLQ/s320/DSC06337.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5390816989313670946" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Uncle Derek with the girls and the giant prospector.  Then we went inside the shop and got some chocolate and candy!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6773004471952737830-2823527828504257039?l=cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/2823527828504257039'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/2823527828504257039'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com/2009/09/chocolate-nugget-candy-factory.html' title='Chocolate Nugget Candy Factory'/><author><name>Michelle Cotton</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14688766356309184142</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/StAHfXEunyI/AAAAAAAAAPM/QvNdjLpIxLQ/s72-c/DSC06337.JPG' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6773004471952737830.post-6026781799102180815</id><published>2009-09-17T20:51:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-22T15:25:12.885-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Reno Air Races 2009</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SuDbbuDc0uI/AAAAAAAAAQM/lBprJ9ByKWE/s1600-h/DSC06299.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SuDbbuDc0uI/AAAAAAAAAQM/lBprJ9ByKWE/s320/DSC06299.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5395553622855308002" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;He's in heaven looking at these things....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/StAGN7zCzBI/AAAAAAAAAPE/PQWBfa20Bwk/s1600-h/DSC06310.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/StAGN7zCzBI/AAAAAAAAAPE/PQWBfa20Bwk/s320/DSC06310.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5390815590422334482" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/StAGNbHKFNI/AAAAAAAAAO8/LkrL8UeWpnc/s1600-h/DSC06313.JPG" style="text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/StAGNbHKFNI/AAAAAAAAAO8/LkrL8UeWpnc/s320/DSC06313.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5390815581648327890" /&gt;I&lt;/a&gt;t was a treat to see the Blue Angels perform.&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/StAGMyNHXHI/AAAAAAAAAO0/KxS94vsME4M/s1600-h/DSC06325.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/StAGMyNHXHI/AAAAAAAAAO0/KxS94vsME4M/s320/DSC06325.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5390815570667461746" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/StAGMVM6GcI/AAAAAAAAAOs/53RmuVPTO74/s1600-h/DSC06326.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/StAGMVM6GcI/AAAAAAAAAOs/53RmuVPTO74/s320/DSC06326.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5390815562881964482" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Grace and Ashley with our favorite plane "Miss America" (the red, white and blue with number 11)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6773004471952737830-6026781799102180815?l=cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/6026781799102180815'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/6026781799102180815'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com/2009/09/reno-air-races-2009.html' title='Reno Air Races 2009'/><author><name>Michelle Cotton</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14688766356309184142</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SuDbbuDc0uI/AAAAAAAAAQM/lBprJ9ByKWE/s72-c/DSC06299.JPG' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6773004471952737830.post-1259773422485051551</id><published>2009-09-12T09:08:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2009-09-12T09:10:19.616-07:00</updated><title type='text'>The Great Reno Balloon Race</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SqvHvGp1asI/AAAAAAAAANM/SjjvamExyYM/s1600-h/DSC06287.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SqvHvGp1asI/AAAAAAAAANM/SjjvamExyYM/s320/DSC06287.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5380613791878048450" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;The view from down the street this morning.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6773004471952737830-1259773422485051551?l=cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/1259773422485051551'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/1259773422485051551'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com/2009/09/great-reno-balloon-race.html' title='The Great Reno Balloon Race'/><author><name>Michelle Cotton</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14688766356309184142</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SqvHvGp1asI/AAAAAAAAANM/SjjvamExyYM/s72-c/DSC06287.JPG' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6773004471952737830.post-6183017396904882267</id><published>2009-09-08T09:10:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-09-12T09:13:21.990-07:00</updated><title type='text'>First day of Kindergarten!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SqvIVILDnEI/AAAAAAAAANc/FjKqMmN6lsg/s1600-h/DSC06274.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SqvIVILDnEI/AAAAAAAAANc/FjKqMmN6lsg/s320/DSC06274.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5380614445120855106" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Reading the night before...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SqvIUgfp_qI/AAAAAAAAANU/g_G1IvSgVxI/s1600-h/DSC06281_2.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 196px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SqvIUgfp_qI/AAAAAAAAANU/g_G1IvSgVxI/s320/DSC06281_2.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5380614434469838498" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;The big day!  She has her backpack and she is ready to go.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6773004471952737830-6183017396904882267?l=cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com/feeds/6183017396904882267/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6773004471952737830&amp;postID=6183017396904882267' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/6183017396904882267'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/6183017396904882267'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com/2009/09/first-day-of-kindergarten.html' title='First day of Kindergarten!'/><author><name>Michelle Cotton</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14688766356309184142</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SqvIVILDnEI/AAAAAAAAANc/FjKqMmN6lsg/s72-c/DSC06274.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6773004471952737830.post-5352344214027998449</id><published>2009-09-07T16:00:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-09-12T09:24:03.314-07:00</updated><title type='text'>2009 Reno Rib Cook-off</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SqvKRwAdCcI/AAAAAAAAAN0/EgPH4_TlHTw/s1600-h/IMG_0418.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SqvKRwAdCcI/AAAAAAAAAN0/EgPH4_TlHTw/s320/IMG_0418.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5380616586117581250" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;One of the many rib stands....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SqvKRUQeAtI/AAAAAAAAANs/Nq6f2gdNBTE/s1600-h/IMG_0424.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SqvKRUQeAtI/AAAAAAAAANs/Nq6f2gdNBTE/s320/IMG_0424.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5380616578668561106" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Carnival rides for the kids.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SqvKQ6DsIWI/AAAAAAAAANk/8IaY8QYji-A/s1600-h/IMG_0432.JPG" style="text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SqvKQ6DsIWI/AAAAAAAAANk/8IaY8QYji-A/s1600-h/IMG_0432.JPG" style="text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;img style="text-align: left;display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px; " src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SqvKQ6DsIWI/AAAAAAAAANk/8IaY8QYji-A/s320/IMG_0432.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5380616571635638626" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Papa, Mima and the kids are all stuffed with ribs, onion rings, kettle corn and cotton candy.  What a day!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6773004471952737830-5352344214027998449?l=cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/5352344214027998449'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/5352344214027998449'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com/2009/09/2009-reno-rib-cook-off.html' title='2009 Reno Rib Cook-off'/><author><name>Michelle Cotton</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14688766356309184142</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SqvKRwAdCcI/AAAAAAAAAN0/EgPH4_TlHTw/s72-c/IMG_0418.JPG' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6773004471952737830.post-845903126595402032</id><published>2009-08-30T13:14:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-09-12T13:23:13.985-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Fiesta La Ballona 2009</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SqwCpthtzkI/AAAAAAAAAOU/4Xe336vbXvM/s1600-h/DSC06259.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SqwCpthtzkI/AAAAAAAAAOU/4Xe336vbXvM/s320/DSC06259.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5380678570419801666" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SqwCo-01SAI/AAAAAAAAAOM/7K2G_K8NCgc/s1600-h/DSC06261.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SqwCo-01SAI/AAAAAAAAAOM/7K2G_K8NCgc/s320/DSC06261.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5380678557883516930" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Nothing like a pony ride at Fiesta!  The girls had so much fun with their friends.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6773004471952737830-845903126595402032?l=cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/845903126595402032'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/845903126595402032'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com/2009/08/fiesta-la-ballona-2009.html' title='Fiesta La Ballona 2009'/><author><name>Michelle Cotton</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14688766356309184142</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SqwCpthtzkI/AAAAAAAAAOU/4Xe336vbXvM/s72-c/DSC06259.JPG' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6773004471952737830.post-2004167057878433266</id><published>2009-08-22T09:25:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-09-12T09:40:41.228-07:00</updated><title type='text'>2009 Annual Family Catalina Trip</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SqvL-oMslfI/AAAAAAAAAOE/-X8Z-P7inv0/s1600-h/DSC06218.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SqvL-oMslfI/AAAAAAAAAOE/-X8Z-P7inv0/s320/DSC06218.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5380618456627189234" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Dinner at Antonio's....pizza, pasta, salad...Yum!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SqvL-ANFgEI/AAAAAAAAAN8/cjKmcv2qy1c/s1600-h/DSC06240.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SqvL-ANFgEI/AAAAAAAAAN8/cjKmcv2qy1c/s320/DSC06240.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5380618445891403842" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;The cutest kids on the island.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6773004471952737830-2004167057878433266?l=cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/2004167057878433266'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/2004167057878433266'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com/2009/08/2009-annual-family-catalina-trip.html' title='2009 Annual Family Catalina Trip'/><author><name>Michelle Cotton</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14688766356309184142</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SqvL-oMslfI/AAAAAAAAAOE/-X8Z-P7inv0/s72-c/DSC06218.JPG' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6773004471952737830.post-6900687189680384104</id><published>2009-07-14T10:07:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-07-23T10:12:06.981-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Mini Trip to visit Grandma Dee Dee</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SmiZm-o3KrI/AAAAAAAAAM8/7grztyak6NY/s1600-h/DSC05898.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SmiZm-o3KrI/AAAAAAAAAM8/7grztyak6NY/s320/DSC05898.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5361704251313040050" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;A little side trip over to Jackson Hole, Wyoming.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SmiZmu-b7dI/AAAAAAAAAM0/qh4i70NFdkU/s1600-h/DSC05885.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SmiZmu-b7dI/AAAAAAAAAM0/qh4i70NFdkU/s320/DSC05885.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5361704247108562386" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;The view from Grandma Dee Dee's house.  Grand Tetons!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6773004471952737830-6900687189680384104?l=cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/6900687189680384104'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/6900687189680384104'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/mini-trip-to-visit-grandma-dee-dee.html' title='Mini Trip to visit Grandma Dee Dee'/><author><name>Michelle Cotton</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14688766356309184142</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SmiZm-o3KrI/AAAAAAAAAM8/7grztyak6NY/s72-c/DSC05898.JPG' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6773004471952737830.post-3041524090322658452</id><published>2009-07-04T09:51:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-07-23T09:56:33.919-07:00</updated><title type='text'>4th of July in Reno!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SmiWAOUjBnI/AAAAAAAAAMU/4d5yGz7V5DU/s1600-h/DSC05838.JPG" style="text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SmiWAOUjBnI/AAAAAAAAAMU/4d5yGz7V5DU/s320/DSC05838.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5361700286973019762" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;All together for the 4th of July in Reno.  Don't we look festive?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6773004471952737830-3041524090322658452?l=cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/3041524090322658452'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/3041524090322658452'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/4th-of-july-in-reno.html' title='4th of July in Reno!'/><author><name>Michelle Cotton</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14688766356309184142</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SmiWAOUjBnI/AAAAAAAAAMU/4d5yGz7V5DU/s72-c/DSC05838.JPG' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6773004471952737830.post-7848244204880255288</id><published>2009-07-03T09:56:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-07-23T09:59:39.226-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Ashley's 3rd Birthday</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SmiWrDcdwjI/AAAAAAAAAMc/z0nyYry9y_A/s1600-h/DSC05738.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SmiWrDcdwjI/AAAAAAAAAMc/z0nyYry9y_A/s320/DSC05738.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5361701022787813938" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Ashley things very hard about her wish before blowing the candle out on her Candyland birthday cake.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6773004471952737830-7848244204880255288?l=cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/7848244204880255288'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/7848244204880255288'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/ashleys-3rd-birthday.html' title='Ashley&apos;s 3rd Birthday'/><author><name>Michelle Cotton</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14688766356309184142</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SmiWrDcdwjI/AAAAAAAAAMc/z0nyYry9y_A/s72-c/DSC05738.JPG' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6773004471952737830.post-9003539726508019657</id><published>2009-06-28T09:59:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-07-23T10:07:01.971-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Triple Birthday Celebration</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SmiXodYnrvI/AAAAAAAAAMs/SN0dh5uoRmE/s1600-h/DSC05598.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SmiXodYnrvI/AAAAAAAAAMs/SN0dh5uoRmE/s320/DSC05598.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5361702077723029234" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;The Birthday boy and girl. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SmiXoHnaufI/AAAAAAAAAMk/VEYkA61WaZ8/s1600-h/DSC05614.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SmiXoHnaufI/AAAAAAAAAMk/VEYkA61WaZ8/s320/DSC05614.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5361702071879514610" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;The Cotton family together to celebrate Grandpa's 70th, Ashley and Ava's 3rd!&lt;div&gt;(We were wishing we were in Hawaii, but Salinas will do just fine)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6773004471952737830-9003539726508019657?l=cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/9003539726508019657'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/9003539726508019657'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com/2009/06/triple-birthday-celebration.html' title='Triple Birthday Celebration'/><author><name>Michelle Cotton</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14688766356309184142</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SmiXodYnrvI/AAAAAAAAAMs/SN0dh5uoRmE/s72-c/DSC05598.JPG' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6773004471952737830.post-9039826424747855607</id><published>2009-06-04T10:13:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-07-23T10:17:15.889-07:00</updated><title type='text'>The Steps!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SmiaetqeM2I/AAAAAAAAANE/glpMLpWb2Ng/s1600-h/DSC05361.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SmiaetqeM2I/AAAAAAAAANE/glpMLpWb2Ng/s320/DSC05361.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5361705208829064034" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;After a lot of sweat...the steps are finished!  Thank you to Papa and Mima for all their hard work. Now the girls can play in the lower backyard!  Woo hoo!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6773004471952737830-9039826424747855607?l=cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/9039826424747855607'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/9039826424747855607'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com/2009/06/steps.html' title='The Steps!'/><author><name>Michelle Cotton</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14688766356309184142</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SmiaetqeM2I/AAAAAAAAANE/glpMLpWb2Ng/s72-c/DSC05361.JPG' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6773004471952737830.post-8281856284442149972</id><published>2009-05-30T08:07:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-05-31T20:45:15.972-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Homeownership - Building steps to the lower backyard</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SiKfdJXJQlI/AAAAAAAAAME/vfQfcM0GLxs/s1600-h/DSC05278.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SiKfdJXJQlI/AAAAAAAAAME/vfQfcM0GLxs/s320/DSC05278.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5342007431092847186" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Before....Let the work begin.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SiKfcz8IZvI/AAAAAAAAAL8/RlmpTYHCZZ4/s1600-h/DSC05284.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SiKfcz8IZvI/AAAAAAAAAL8/RlmpTYHCZZ4/s320/DSC05284.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5342007425342400242" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Papa and Daddy going to work on the frame.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SiKfcs-rFGI/AAAAAAAAAL0/Gl5928O9eUw/s1600-h/DSC05292.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SiKfcs-rFGI/AAAAAAAAAL0/Gl5928O9eUw/s320/DSC05292.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5342007423474013282" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Putting the frame in place. Papa be careful of your back!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6773004471952737830-8281856284442149972?l=cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/8281856284442149972'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/8281856284442149972'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com/2009/05/homeownership-building-steps-to-lower.html' title='Homeownership - Building steps to the lower backyard'/><author><name>Michelle Cotton</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14688766356309184142</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SiKfdJXJQlI/AAAAAAAAAME/vfQfcM0GLxs/s72-c/DSC05278.JPG' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6773004471952737830.post-94710043862323457</id><published>2009-05-19T08:01:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-05-31T08:04:46.209-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Mommy's Birthday!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SiKcWleZpmI/AAAAAAAAALs/-wswpTpyTrs/s1600-h/DSC05250.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SiKcWleZpmI/AAAAAAAAALs/-wswpTpyTrs/s320/DSC05250.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5342004019845506658" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;About to eat some yummy brownies!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6773004471952737830-94710043862323457?l=cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/94710043862323457'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/94710043862323457'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com/2009/05/mommys-birthday.html' title='Mommy&apos;s Birthday!'/><author><name>Michelle Cotton</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14688766356309184142</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SiKcWleZpmI/AAAAAAAAALs/-wswpTpyTrs/s72-c/DSC05250.JPG' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6773004471952737830.post-8893482168575093553</id><published>2009-05-16T07:58:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-05-31T08:01:51.687-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Our Squirrel family</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SiKbhHtbauI/AAAAAAAAALk/P2yi-qxbHZw/s1600-h/DSC05239.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SiKbhHtbauI/AAAAAAAAALk/P2yi-qxbHZw/s320/DSC05239.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5342003101322406626" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;A mommy squirrel had 5 babies in our backyard...here are 4 of them playing.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6773004471952737830-8893482168575093553?l=cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/8893482168575093553'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/8893482168575093553'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com/2009/05/our-squirrel-family.html' title='Our Squirrel family'/><author><name>Michelle Cotton</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14688766356309184142</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SiKbhHtbauI/AAAAAAAAALk/P2yi-qxbHZw/s72-c/DSC05239.JPG' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6773004471952737830.post-4301445762996669667</id><published>2009-05-15T07:51:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-05-31T08:07:18.681-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Homeownership - Painting</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SiKaOz2O1TI/AAAAAAAAALM/C0f5RL8F4SQ/s320/DSC05231.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5342001687241348402" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px; " /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Peeling wallpaper....so much fun.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); "&gt;&lt;img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SiKaPdJsE1I/AAAAAAAAALU/ppo7E07QURE/s320/DSC05238.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5342001698328810322" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px; " /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Primer is on the walls...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SiKaPkmg1MI/AAAAAAAAALc/VrrdajDk_Aw/s1600-h/DSC05245.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SiKaPkmg1MI/AAAAAAAAALc/VrrdajDk_Aw/s320/DSC05245.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5342001700328756418" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Almost done...blue walls and Daddy is putting the bunk bed together!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SiKaPdJsE1I/AAAAAAAAALU/ppo7E07QURE/s1600-h/DSC05238.JPG"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SiKaOz2O1TI/AAAAAAAAALM/C0f5RL8F4SQ/s1600-h/DSC05231.JPG"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6773004471952737830-4301445762996669667?l=cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/4301445762996669667'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/4301445762996669667'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com/2009/05/homeownership-graces-room.html' title='Homeownership - Painting'/><author><name>Michelle Cotton</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14688766356309184142</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SiKaOz2O1TI/AAAAAAAAALM/C0f5RL8F4SQ/s72-c/DSC05231.JPG' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6773004471952737830.post-3476252358764922647</id><published>2009-05-10T07:44:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-05-31T07:51:13.078-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Homeownership - Mowing the lawn</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); "&gt;&lt;img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SiKYl4TThHI/AAAAAAAAAK8/OjzYYqOg7gQ/s320/DSC05204.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5341999884550767730" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px; " /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Daddy's new toy...What happened to the days when new "toys" were video games and remote control cars?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SiKYmNXNjwI/AAAAAAAAALE/axrE76PHQFE/s1600-h/DSC05212.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SiKYmNXNjwI/AAAAAAAAALE/axrE76PHQFE/s320/DSC05212.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5341999890204299010" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;At work.....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SiKYl4TThHI/AAAAAAAAAK8/OjzYYqOg7gQ/s1600-h/DSC05204.JPG"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6773004471952737830-3476252358764922647?l=cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/3476252358764922647'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/3476252358764922647'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com/2009/05/homeownership-mowing-lawn.html' title='Homeownership - Mowing the lawn'/><author><name>Michelle Cotton</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14688766356309184142</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SiKYl4TThHI/AAAAAAAAAK8/OjzYYqOg7gQ/s72-c/DSC05204.JPG' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6773004471952737830.post-8992007035568682292</id><published>2009-05-10T07:41:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-05-31T07:44:41.403-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Mother's Day 2009</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SiKXmajaIfI/AAAAAAAAAK0/dd0QTGwCuok/s1600-h/DSC05191.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SiKXmajaIfI/AAAAAAAAAK0/dd0QTGwCuok/s320/DSC05191.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5341998794233487858" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;We spent a wonderful Mother's day with Grandma Dee Dee!  (Look at our beautiful lilacs in the background)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6773004471952737830-8992007035568682292?l=cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/8992007035568682292'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/8992007035568682292'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com/2009/05/mothers-day-2009.html' title='Mother&apos;s Day 2009'/><author><name>Michelle Cotton</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14688766356309184142</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SiKXmajaIfI/AAAAAAAAAK0/dd0QTGwCuok/s72-c/DSC05191.JPG' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6773004471952737830.post-5146052285074973192</id><published>2009-05-02T22:00:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-05-26T22:07:52.588-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Lake Piru May 2009</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238);"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238);"&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/ShzJ8NvORdI/AAAAAAAAAKk/YNGa9eeddDM/s320/DSC05128.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5340365294471628242" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px; " /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Cousins in the tent!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/ShzJ8ef3u9I/AAAAAAAAAKs/EaohLXmeHJQ/s1600-h/DSC05146.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/ShzJ8ef3u9I/AAAAAAAAAKs/EaohLXmeHJQ/s320/DSC05146.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5340365298970639314" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;The girls and mom getting ready for a camp-style breakfast.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6773004471952737830-5146052285074973192?l=cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/5146052285074973192'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/5146052285074973192'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com/2009/05/lake-piru-may-2009.html' title='Lake Piru May 2009'/><author><name>Michelle Cotton</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14688766356309184142</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/ShzJ8NvORdI/AAAAAAAAAKk/YNGa9eeddDM/s72-c/DSC05128.JPG' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6773004471952737830.post-3793095528317795309</id><published>2009-04-29T21:58:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-05-26T22:00:31.299-07:00</updated><title type='text'>4 Generations</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/ShzIvdxI0QI/AAAAAAAAAKc/ptLtzmtKVUY/s1600-h/DSC05073.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/ShzIvdxI0QI/AAAAAAAAAKc/ptLtzmtKVUY/s320/DSC05073.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5340363975924699394" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;We celebrated Grandma's 93rd Birthday.  Four generations of girls...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6773004471952737830-3793095528317795309?l=cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/3793095528317795309'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/3793095528317795309'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com/2009/04/4-generations.html' title='4 Generations'/><author><name>Michelle Cotton</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14688766356309184142</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/ShzIvdxI0QI/AAAAAAAAAKc/ptLtzmtKVUY/s72-c/DSC05073.JPG' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6773004471952737830.post-7101813330310330901</id><published>2009-04-25T21:55:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-05-26T21:58:26.689-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Jump house fun</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/ShzIEcke9rI/AAAAAAAAAKU/U61Q7yZlzc4/s1600-h/DSC05031.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/ShzIEcke9rI/AAAAAAAAAKU/U61Q7yZlzc4/s320/DSC05031.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5340363236868814514" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Having a little jump house fun.  Gotta love the matching outfits!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6773004471952737830-7101813330310330901?l=cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/7101813330310330901'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/7101813330310330901'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com/2009/04/jump-house-fun.html' title='Jump house fun'/><author><name>Michelle Cotton</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14688766356309184142</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/ShzIEcke9rI/AAAAAAAAAKU/U61Q7yZlzc4/s72-c/DSC05031.JPG' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6773004471952737830.post-7928216300411135608</id><published>2009-04-23T21:51:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-05-26T21:54:44.084-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Ashley's sleep habits</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/ShzHMwcHYrI/AAAAAAAAAKM/m6DXCygdX4g/s1600-h/DSC05015.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/ShzHMwcHYrI/AAAAAAAAAKM/m6DXCygdX4g/s320/DSC05015.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5340362280129749682" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;If only we could just fall asleep anywhere...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6773004471952737830-7928216300411135608?l=cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/7928216300411135608'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/7928216300411135608'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com/2009/04/ashleys-sleep-habits.html' title='Ashley&apos;s sleep habits'/><author><name>Michelle Cotton</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14688766356309184142</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/ShzHMwcHYrI/AAAAAAAAAKM/m6DXCygdX4g/s72-c/DSC05015.JPG' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6773004471952737830.post-5642354400438745193</id><published>2009-04-20T21:48:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-05-26T21:51:28.230-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Reading the cat a book...</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/ShzGkWP826I/AAAAAAAAAKE/OQtox0bGGTw/s1600-h/DSC05009.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/ShzGkWP826I/AAAAAAAAAKE/OQtox0bGGTw/s320/DSC05009.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5340361585904638882" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;What a lucky cat.  Ashley loves to read Petie books (while wearing her favorite dress of course).&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6773004471952737830-5642354400438745193?l=cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/5642354400438745193'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/5642354400438745193'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com/2009/04/reading-cat-book.html' title='Reading the cat a book...'/><author><name>Michelle Cotton</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14688766356309184142</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/ShzGkWP826I/AAAAAAAAAKE/OQtox0bGGTw/s72-c/DSC05009.JPG' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6773004471952737830.post-7317332967965380263</id><published>2009-04-19T21:44:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-05-26T21:48:42.926-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Earth Day Festival</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/ShzF2m2N_VI/AAAAAAAAAJ8/kbpOKtevmjU/s1600-h/DSC05004.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/ShzF2m2N_VI/AAAAAAAAAJ8/kbpOKtevmjU/s320/DSC05004.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5340360800086130002" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Train ride around Idlewild Park&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/ShzF2PC7AhI/AAAAAAAAAJ0/Bl_JJICpbRQ/s1600-h/DSC04983.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/ShzF2PC7AhI/AAAAAAAAAJ0/Bl_JJICpbRQ/s320/DSC04983.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5340360793696961042" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Making crafts!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6773004471952737830-7317332967965380263?l=cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/7317332967965380263'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/7317332967965380263'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com/2009/04/earth-day-festival.html' title='Earth Day Festival'/><author><name>Michelle Cotton</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14688766356309184142</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/ShzF2m2N_VI/AAAAAAAAAJ8/kbpOKtevmjU/s72-c/DSC05004.JPG' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6773004471952737830.post-3362109963353424977</id><published>2009-04-12T18:32:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-04-15T18:44:32.095-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Easter day is here!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); font-size: 23px; "&gt;&lt;img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SeaMxhEn8lI/AAAAAAAAAJU/BAm-XdbkJaY/s320/DSC04939.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5325098391731434066" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px; " /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The girls had to compete with the wildlife in the egg hunt...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); font-size: 28px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 23px; "&gt;&lt;img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SeaMx0SWgbI/AAAAAAAAAJc/SaGxhRbLof8/s320/DSC04945.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5325098396889285042" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px; " /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;They found their baskets...mission accomplished!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SeaMyaQAhhI/AAAAAAAAAJs/8F7ZrWxtBuE/s1600-h/DSC04974.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SeaMyaQAhhI/AAAAAAAAAJs/8F7ZrWxtBuE/s320/DSC04974.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5325098407080003090" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SeaMyMdz4LI/AAAAAAAAAJk/taY978jjmoo/s1600-h/DSC04965.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SeaMyMdz4LI/AAAAAAAAAJk/taY978jjmoo/s320/DSC04965.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5325098403379798194" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Check out these sweet Easter chicks.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SeaMxhEn8lI/AAAAAAAAAJU/BAm-XdbkJaY/s1600-h/DSC04939.JPG"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6773004471952737830-3362109963353424977?l=cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/3362109963353424977'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/3362109963353424977'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com/2009/04/easter-day-is-here.html' title='Easter day is here!'/><author><name>Michelle Cotton</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14688766356309184142</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SeaMxhEn8lI/AAAAAAAAAJU/BAm-XdbkJaY/s72-c/DSC04939.JPG' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6773004471952737830.post-3617143281342291613</id><published>2009-04-11T18:27:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-04-15T18:32:03.766-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Baking and Coloring Easter Eggs</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SeaKNWhyg9I/AAAAAAAAAIs/O-TCCMTmSok/s1600-h/DSC04933.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SeaKNWhyg9I/AAAAAAAAAIs/O-TCCMTmSok/s320/DSC04933.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5325095571402425298" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Here are the Easter treats we baked and handed out to friends and neighbors&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SeaJ1kGsLmI/AAAAAAAAAIk/arSblLrGKrM/s1600-h/DSC04916.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SeaJ1kGsLmI/AAAAAAAAAIk/arSblLrGKrM/s320/DSC04916.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5325095162729999970" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;The girls are getting the hang of coloring eggs.  We have to practice putting them in the cups without dropping them too hard though...crack!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6773004471952737830-3617143281342291613?l=cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/3617143281342291613'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/3617143281342291613'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com/2009/04/baking-and-coloring-easter-eggs.html' title='Baking and Coloring Easter Eggs'/><author><name>Michelle Cotton</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14688766356309184142</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SeaKNWhyg9I/AAAAAAAAAIs/O-TCCMTmSok/s72-c/DSC04933.JPG' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6773004471952737830.post-135649644923244958</id><published>2009-04-04T10:55:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-04-07T11:02:13.301-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Fun at Carmel Beach</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SduU0QffOwI/AAAAAAAAAIc/DqtRxaaomCA/s1600-h/DSC04841.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SduU0QffOwI/AAAAAAAAAIc/DqtRxaaomCA/s320/DSC04841.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5322011010169518850" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SduUPqZbnxI/AAAAAAAAAIU/pHR_chrqgXk/s1600-h/DSC04848.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SduUPqZbnxI/AAAAAAAAAIU/pHR_chrqgXk/s320/DSC04848.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5322010381468278546" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SduUPTG8E9I/AAAAAAAAAIM/Ra0CPOJUD2w/s1600-h/DSC04838.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SduUPTG8E9I/AAAAAAAAAIM/Ra0CPOJUD2w/s320/DSC04838.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5322010375216698322" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;We had a picnic and some playtime at Daddy's old stomping ground (you can see Pebble Beach Golf Course in the background).&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6773004471952737830-135649644923244958?l=cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/135649644923244958'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/135649644923244958'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com/2009/04/fun-at-carmel-beach.html' title='Fun at Carmel Beach'/><author><name>Michelle Cotton</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14688766356309184142</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SduU0QffOwI/AAAAAAAAAIc/DqtRxaaomCA/s72-c/DSC04841.JPG' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6773004471952737830.post-446335143842333857</id><published>2009-04-04T10:51:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-04-07T10:55:34.601-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Horse rides at the stable</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SduTYPpcZxI/AAAAAAAAAIE/7fYNKKpHuDA/s1600-h/DSC04811.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SduTYPpcZxI/AAAAAAAAAIE/7fYNKKpHuDA/s320/DSC04811.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5322009429394876178" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SduTX_gVZ5I/AAAAAAAAAH8/Wd8ySitRwcs/s1600-h/DSC04798.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SduTX_gVZ5I/AAAAAAAAAH8/Wd8ySitRwcs/s320/DSC04798.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5322009425061701522" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Grace and Ashley got to ride Fancy with a little help from Auntie Candace.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6773004471952737830-446335143842333857?l=cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/446335143842333857'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/446335143842333857'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com/2009/04/horse-rides-at-stable.html' title='Horse rides at the stable'/><author><name>Michelle Cotton</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14688766356309184142</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SduTYPpcZxI/AAAAAAAAAIE/7fYNKKpHuDA/s72-c/DSC04811.JPG' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6773004471952737830.post-2194648899507175924</id><published>2009-03-17T20:55:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-03-21T21:00:58.299-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Happy St. Patrick's Day</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/ScW3i8o1M0I/AAAAAAAAAHU/TqhFnK9tl7Y/s1600-h/DSC04775.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/ScW3i8o1M0I/AAAAAAAAAHU/TqhFnK9tl7Y/s320/DSC04775.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315856746201559874" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/ScW3iw_6ABI/AAAAAAAAAHM/j-EpB5A92ZM/s1600-h/DSC04771.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/ScW3iw_6ABI/AAAAAAAAAHM/j-EpB5A92ZM/s320/DSC04771.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315856743077117970" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;There has to be a little Irish in their blood some where...&lt;div&gt;Hope everyone has lots of luck!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6773004471952737830-2194648899507175924?l=cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/2194648899507175924'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/2194648899507175924'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com/2009/03/happy-st-patricks-day.html' title='Happy St. Patrick&apos;s Day'/><author><name>Michelle Cotton</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14688766356309184142</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/ScW3i8o1M0I/AAAAAAAAAHU/TqhFnK9tl7Y/s72-c/DSC04775.JPG' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6773004471952737830.post-2646993048193173058</id><published>2009-03-15T21:17:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-03-21T21:20:05.167-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Play date in Culver City</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/ScW8L8e8SnI/AAAAAAAAAH0/InK5nSrnCmw/s1600-h/DSC04756.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/ScW8L8e8SnI/AAAAAAAAAH0/InK5nSrnCmw/s320/DSC04756.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315861848581229170" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Are we having fun yet?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6773004471952737830-2646993048193173058?l=cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/2646993048193173058'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/2646993048193173058'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com/2009/03/play-date-in-culver-city.html' title='Play date in Culver City'/><author><name>Michelle Cotton</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14688766356309184142</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/ScW8L8e8SnI/AAAAAAAAAH0/InK5nSrnCmw/s72-c/DSC04756.JPG' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6773004471952737830.post-7904655278912000422</id><published>2009-03-09T21:13:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-03-21T21:15:27.417-07:00</updated><title type='text'>The snow wall</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/ScW7BqP2ZoI/AAAAAAAAAHs/5T7cbWfTAcY/s1600-h/DSC04700.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/ScW7BqP2ZoI/AAAAAAAAAHs/5T7cbWfTAcY/s320/DSC04700.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315860572375770754" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Bring on the snowball fights, we have a snow wall!  Our next project for when it snows will be an igloo.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6773004471952737830-7904655278912000422?l=cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/7904655278912000422'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/7904655278912000422'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com/2009/03/snow-wall.html' title='The snow wall'/><author><name>Michelle Cotton</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14688766356309184142</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/ScW7BqP2ZoI/AAAAAAAAAHs/5T7cbWfTAcY/s72-c/DSC04700.JPG' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6773004471952737830.post-6005274370981393873</id><published>2009-03-06T21:01:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-03-21T21:07:15.935-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Hat Day at school</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/ScW5PxxbjiI/AAAAAAAAAHc/T6DoWwrtNpY/s1600-h/DSC04696.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/ScW5PxxbjiI/AAAAAAAAAHc/T6DoWwrtNpY/s320/DSC04696.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315858615890578978" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6773004471952737830-6005274370981393873?l=cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/6005274370981393873'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/6005274370981393873'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com/2009/03/hat-day-at-school.html' title='Hat Day at school'/><author><name>Michelle Cotton</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14688766356309184142</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/ScW5PxxbjiI/AAAAAAAAAHc/T6DoWwrtNpY/s72-c/DSC04696.JPG' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6773004471952737830.post-3568741561414855111</id><published>2009-03-04T21:08:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-03-21T21:12:56.857-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Snow babe and Snow fireman</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/ScW6fjylVsI/AAAAAAAAAHk/rS6TryxQKyU/s1600-h/DSC04672.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/ScW6fjylVsI/AAAAAAAAAHk/rS6TryxQKyU/s320/DSC04672.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315859986526852802" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Daddy and the girls did a fine job making these snow people.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6773004471952737830-3568741561414855111?l=cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/3568741561414855111'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/3568741561414855111'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com/2009/03/snow-babe-and-snow-fireman.html' title='Snow babe and Snow fireman'/><author><name>Michelle Cotton</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14688766356309184142</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/ScW6fjylVsI/AAAAAAAAAHk/rS6TryxQKyU/s72-c/DSC04672.JPG' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6773004471952737830.post-4828131786738205562</id><published>2009-02-02T15:32:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-02-02T15:45:18.552-08:00</updated><title type='text'>How to really make your mom mad!!!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SYeEkifZDjI/AAAAAAAAAGs/FyKWmxreGHY/s1600-h/DSC04629_2.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SYeEkifZDjI/AAAAAAAAAGs/FyKWmxreGHY/s320/DSC04629_2.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5298349249893305906" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Grace has a blanket over her body in the hallway and says &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;"Mom, is it okay to write on myself?".  I knew I was in for a rough afternoon.  Grace wrote all over herself and her sister with PERMANENT markers (feet, legs, arms, hands, face, head, stomach, CLOTHES).  I guess I learned my lesson on supervising crafts and reading the labels. (Ashley's decorated legs)  I was sooooo MAD!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SYeEF-bg9LI/AAAAAAAAAGk/1tApzaBs1bY/s1600-h/DSC04629.JPG"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SYeD20U2LEI/AAAAAAAAAGc/xc_9_KmG1jk/s1600-h/DSC04629_2.JPG"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SYeDS7p6WsI/AAAAAAAAAGU/zsJ91o4-SxU/s1600-h/DSC04629_2.JPG"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SYeC-pz0QBI/AAAAAAAAAGM/EpKebdnlqAA/s1600-h/DSC04629_2.JPG"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6773004471952737830-4828131786738205562?l=cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/4828131786738205562'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/4828131786738205562'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com/2009/02/how-to-really-make-your-mom-mad.html' title='How to really make your mom mad!!!'/><author><name>Michelle Cotton</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14688766356309184142</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SYeEkifZDjI/AAAAAAAAAGs/FyKWmxreGHY/s72-c/DSC04629_2.JPG' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6773004471952737830.post-2390094859425310107</id><published>2009-01-25T18:38:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-02-03T18:44:50.576-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Grace's 5th Birthday!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SYkAE_j8CcI/AAAAAAAAAG0/ehC3fY9fWMo/s1600-h/DSC04557.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SYkAE_j8CcI/AAAAAAAAAG0/ehC3fY9fWMo/s320/DSC04557.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5298766522359744962" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Grace celebrated her 5th birthday.  She wanted a Madagascar theme birthday.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6773004471952737830-2390094859425310107?l=cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/2390094859425310107'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/2390094859425310107'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com/2009/01/graces-5th-birthday.html' title='Grace&apos;s 5th Birthday!'/><author><name>Michelle Cotton</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14688766356309184142</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SYkAE_j8CcI/AAAAAAAAAG0/ehC3fY9fWMo/s72-c/DSC04557.JPG' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6773004471952737830.post-2103863169634209288</id><published>2008-12-30T18:45:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-02-03T18:52:00.094-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Big Wheels</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SYkCkFHthGI/AAAAAAAAAG8/aUABINnpMUQ/s1600-h/DSC04369.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SYkCkFHthGI/AAAAAAAAAG8/aUABINnpMUQ/s320/DSC04369.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5298769255451165794" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;The girls trying out their new Big Wheels from Mima and Papa.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6773004471952737830-2103863169634209288?l=cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/2103863169634209288'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/2103863169634209288'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com/2009/02/big-wheels.html' title='Big Wheels'/><author><name>Michelle Cotton</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14688766356309184142</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SYkCkFHthGI/AAAAAAAAAG8/aUABINnpMUQ/s72-c/DSC04369.JPG' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6773004471952737830.post-1593689221596940329</id><published>2008-12-26T18:52:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-02-03T18:56:02.955-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Day after Christmas nature walk</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SYkDMZNsc-I/AAAAAAAAAHE/wEcmS_RiJBI/s1600-h/DSC04334.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SYkDMZNsc-I/AAAAAAAAAHE/wEcmS_RiJBI/s320/DSC04334.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5298769948039738338" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;We took a little nature walk the day after Christmas.  There was plenty of fresh Christmas snow.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6773004471952737830-1593689221596940329?l=cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/1593689221596940329'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/1593689221596940329'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com/2008/12/day-after-christmas-nature-walk.html' title='Day after Christmas nature walk'/><author><name>Michelle Cotton</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14688766356309184142</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SYkDMZNsc-I/AAAAAAAAAHE/wEcmS_RiJBI/s72-c/DSC04334.JPG' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6773004471952737830.post-4911219279338995042</id><published>2008-12-15T19:06:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2008-12-15T19:20:25.052-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Reno sledding team!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SUcdpdmZY6I/AAAAAAAAAGE/IPtZliLMNio/s1600-h/DSC04073.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SUcdpdmZY6I/AAAAAAAAAGE/IPtZliLMNio/s320/DSC04073.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5280221686272713634" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SUcdCBuhKvI/AAAAAAAAAF8/KFWYvC6INzA/s1600-h/DSC04185.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SUcdCBuhKvI/AAAAAAAAAF8/KFWYvC6INzA/s320/DSC04185.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5280221008775686898" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SUcdB-HHx5I/AAAAAAAAAFs/zhPNNk6yG5w/s1600-h/DSC04062.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SUcdB-HHx5I/AAAAAAAAAFs/zhPNNk6yG5w/s320/DSC04062.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5280221007805138834" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SUcdBy_FB3I/AAAAAAAAAFk/QYqSkRBEee4/s1600-h/DSC04054.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SUcdBy_FB3I/AAAAAAAAAFk/QYqSkRBEee4/s320/DSC04054.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5280221004818614130" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SUcdCHF-L_I/AAAAAAAAAF0/e-dUZvNOEkA/s320/DSC04184.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5280221010216234994" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px; " /&gt;The girls tried out the sleds on our neighbor's driveway.  It was chilly but great fun! Soon we'll have no snow left because Ashley is eating it all.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6773004471952737830-4911219279338995042?l=cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/4911219279338995042'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/4911219279338995042'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com/2008/12/reno-sledding-team.html' title='Reno sledding team!'/><author><name>Michelle Cotton</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14688766356309184142</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SUcdpdmZY6I/AAAAAAAAAGE/IPtZliLMNio/s72-c/DSC04073.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6773004471952737830.post-5747416029072657168</id><published>2008-12-15T18:46:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-12-15T19:05:41.499-08:00</updated><title type='text'>First snowman</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;&lt;img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SUcaR8BiHgI/AAAAAAAAAE8/Xb03T5g8E1I/s320/DSC04040.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5280217983587851778" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px; " /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SUcaSXFMKfI/AAAAAAAAAFc/JiCBzBjP8Mo/s1600-h/DSC04022.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SUcaSXFMKfI/AAAAAAAAAFc/JiCBzBjP8Mo/s320/DSC04022.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5280217990850947570" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SUcaSUrXGdI/AAAAAAAAAFU/BywxPIeWLpI/s1600-h/DSC04007.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SUcaSUrXGdI/AAAAAAAAAFU/BywxPIeWLpI/s320/DSC04007.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5280217990205741522" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SUcaSK4UuDI/AAAAAAAAAFE/ZSJfSLQVUI4/s1600-h/DSC04044.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SUcaSK4UuDI/AAAAAAAAAFE/ZSJfSLQVUI4/s320/DSC04044.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5280217987575756850" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SUcaSEoPhlI/AAAAAAAAAFM/39rNKVSUWTs/s320/DSC04033.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5280217985897694802" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px; " /&gt;This time there was enough snow to make our first snowman.&lt;div&gt;Grace and Andy did a great job!  There was just enough time for a little snow play before it started snowing again.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6773004471952737830-5747416029072657168?l=cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/5747416029072657168'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/5747416029072657168'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com/2008/12/first-snowman.html' title='First snowman'/><author><name>Michelle Cotton</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14688766356309184142</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SUcaR8BiHgI/AAAAAAAAAE8/Xb03T5g8E1I/s72-c/DSC04040.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6773004471952737830.post-6859268408976782882</id><published>2008-12-13T20:01:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-12-13T20:11:00.215-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Decorating the tree</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SUSGtBld6bI/AAAAAAAAAEs/ePiUpplVbrc/s1600-h/DSC04000.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SUSGtBld6bI/AAAAAAAAAEs/ePiUpplVbrc/s320/DSC04000.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5279492771262884274" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SUSGtLmtvWI/AAAAAAAAAEk/9ldSX4lzjr8/s1600-h/DSC03996.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SUSGtLmtvWI/AAAAAAAAAEk/9ldSX4lzjr8/s320/DSC03996.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5279492773952470370" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SUSGs2Jq2WI/AAAAAAAAAEc/_d0DacAi5e0/s1600-h/DSC03990.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SUSGs2Jq2WI/AAAAAAAAAEc/_d0DacAi5e0/s320/DSC03990.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5279492768193501538" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;It's a very tall tree, a little on the thin side, but it has lots of character!&lt;div&gt;After all that decorating we spent a little time by the warm fire.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6773004471952737830-6859268408976782882?l=cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/6859268408976782882'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/6859268408976782882'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com/2008/12/decorating-tree.html' title='Decorating the tree'/><author><name>Michelle Cotton</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14688766356309184142</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SUSGtBld6bI/AAAAAAAAAEs/ePiUpplVbrc/s72-c/DSC04000.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6773004471952737830.post-7966194781233906108</id><published>2008-12-13T19:56:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2008-12-13T20:00:49.859-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Snow play</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SUSEpbyYPGI/AAAAAAAAAEU/1coeGE1LQiQ/s1600-h/DSC03972.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SUSEpbyYPGI/AAAAAAAAAEU/1coeGE1LQiQ/s320/DSC03972.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5279490510553627746" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SUSEpSEnLYI/AAAAAAAAAEM/OmiFfYw7_AY/s1600-h/DSC03969.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SUSEpSEnLYI/AAAAAAAAAEM/OmiFfYw7_AY/s320/DSC03969.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5279490507945749890" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;There was just enough snow to do some sledding.  Not quite enough for a snowman.  Hopefully soon...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6773004471952737830-7966194781233906108?l=cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/7966194781233906108'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/7966194781233906108'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com/2008/12/snow-play.html' title='Snow play'/><author><name>Michelle Cotton</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14688766356309184142</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SUSEpbyYPGI/AAAAAAAAAEU/1coeGE1LQiQ/s72-c/DSC03972.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6773004471952737830.post-4701097638645936053</id><published>2008-12-13T08:16:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-12-13T08:17:04.619-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6773004471952737830-4701097638645936053?l=cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com/feeds/4701097638645936053/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6773004471952737830&amp;postID=4701097638645936053' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/4701097638645936053'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/4701097638645936053'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com/2008/12/blog-post.html' title=''/><author><name>Michelle Cotton</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14688766356309184142</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6773004471952737830.post-6365036952081955416</id><published>2008-12-13T08:08:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-12-13T08:13:50.053-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Snow!!!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SUPevHeqbGI/AAAAAAAAADs/mpWt_IRcdx0/s1600-h/DSC03960.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SUPevHeqbGI/AAAAAAAAADs/mpWt_IRcdx0/s320/DSC03960.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5279308089251228770" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After a VERY windy night, we woke up to this.  We're supposed to get more tonight.&lt;div&gt;Looks like we won't be dreaming of a white Christmas...we'll have one!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6773004471952737830-6365036952081955416?l=cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/6365036952081955416'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/6365036952081955416'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com/2008/12/snow.html' title='Snow!!!'/><author><name>Michelle Cotton</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14688766356309184142</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SUPevHeqbGI/AAAAAAAAADs/mpWt_IRcdx0/s72-c/DSC03960.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6773004471952737830.post-7394425532402026681</id><published>2008-12-12T19:00:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-12-13T08:08:06.715-08:00</updated><title type='text'>How Nevada folk get their Christmas tree...</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); "&gt;&lt;img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SUPcfErIN_I/AAAAAAAAADU/0_VY8UiZ654/s320/DSC03954.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5279305614597044210" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px; " /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SUPcfKlWocI/AAAAAAAAADc/KpcBmYt7AlQ/s320/DSC03948.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5279305616183435714" /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SUPcfW_otyI/AAAAAAAAADk/EIyj_ZGGs-o/s1600-h/DSC03958.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SUPcfW_otyI/AAAAAAAAADk/EIyj_ZGGs-o/s320/DSC03958.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5279305619514898210" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Our Neighbor gave us a permit to cut down our own Christmas tree.  It was quite an adventure on a small and very bumpy dirt road in the mountains.  We rescued a tree that someone had abandoned and officially cut one down too!  We even saw some of the locals.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6773004471952737830-7394425532402026681?l=cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/7394425532402026681'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/7394425532402026681'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com/2008/12/how-nevada-folks-get-their-christmas.html' title='How Nevada folk get their Christmas tree...'/><author><name>Michelle Cotton</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14688766356309184142</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SUPcfErIN_I/AAAAAAAAADU/0_VY8UiZ654/s72-c/DSC03954.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6773004471952737830.post-6211330031462854934</id><published>2008-12-03T18:30:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-12-13T08:25:06.775-08:00</updated><title type='text'>It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SUPh0N5QAJI/AAAAAAAAAD8/zqkR30Rj6mc/s1600-h/DSC03867.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SUPh0N5QAJI/AAAAAAAAAD8/zqkR30Rj6mc/s320/DSC03867.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5279311475407585426" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SUPhzyTimXI/AAAAAAAAAD0/ATWaLvuvrQ0/s1600-h/DSC03862.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SUPhzyTimXI/AAAAAAAAAD0/ATWaLvuvrQ0/s320/DSC03862.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5279311468001663346" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;While Dad puts the lights up on the house Santa's little helpers pose for a sweet picture.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6773004471952737830-6211330031462854934?l=cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/6211330031462854934'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/6211330031462854934'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com/2008/12/its-beginning-to-look-lot-like.html' title='It&apos;s beginning to look a lot like Christmas!'/><author><name>Michelle Cotton</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14688766356309184142</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SUPh0N5QAJI/AAAAAAAAAD8/zqkR30Rj6mc/s72-c/DSC03867.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6773004471952737830.post-4237693962237968159</id><published>2008-11-28T09:50:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-12-13T09:53:26.620-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Happy Thanksgiving!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SUP2i8A6q5I/AAAAAAAAAEE/WGmQ6KF7viE/s1600-h/DSC03754.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SUP2i8A6q5I/AAAAAAAAAEE/WGmQ6KF7viE/s320/DSC03754.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5279334268294310802" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We are thankful for so much!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6773004471952737830-4237693962237968159?l=cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/4237693962237968159'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/4237693962237968159'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com/2008/11/happy-thanksgiving.html' title='Happy Thanksgiving!'/><author><name>Michelle Cotton</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14688766356309184142</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SUP2i8A6q5I/AAAAAAAAAEE/WGmQ6KF7viE/s72-c/DSC03754.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6773004471952737830.post-1479517654457700259</id><published>2008-11-05T21:04:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-11-05T21:09:13.196-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Kitty warmer...</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SRJ7SEXwKaI/AAAAAAAAADM/Ep7uQlNwOm0/s1600-h/DSC03653.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SRJ7SEXwKaI/AAAAAAAAADM/Ep7uQlNwOm0/s320/DSC03653.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5265406464690760098" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;When going to turn off the extra night light, I noticed an extra body in Grace's bed.  Who needs a blanket when you've got a kitty! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SRJ7Gg17FbI/AAAAAAAAADE/ywzv3hv8BeQ/s1600-h/DSC03647.jpg"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6773004471952737830-1479517654457700259?l=cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/1479517654457700259'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/1479517654457700259'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com/2008/11/kitty-warmer.html' title='Kitty warmer...'/><author><name>Michelle Cotton</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14688766356309184142</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SRJ7SEXwKaI/AAAAAAAAADM/Ep7uQlNwOm0/s72-c/DSC03653.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6773004471952737830.post-4564378315621890144</id><published>2008-11-04T15:45:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-11-04T20:45:07.724-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Snowy Mountains</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SRDe90o_v1I/AAAAAAAAAC0/aLWwniIJC1A/s1600-h/DSC03646.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SRDe90o_v1I/AAAAAAAAAC0/aLWwniIJC1A/s320/DSC03646.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5264953118080089938" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;I took this picture looking up the street.  Local mountains have lots of snow from last night's storm.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6773004471952737830-4564378315621890144?l=cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/4564378315621890144'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/4564378315621890144'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com/2008/11/snowy-mountains.html' title='Snowy Mountains'/><author><name>Michelle Cotton</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14688766356309184142</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SRDe90o_v1I/AAAAAAAAAC0/aLWwniIJC1A/s72-c/DSC03646.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6773004471952737830.post-1629169810528866137</id><published>2008-10-31T15:35:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-11-05T13:20:36.141-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Halloween!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SRDcd6iNXvI/AAAAAAAAACs/zrRt2kkHbU4/s1600-h/DSC03610.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SRDcd6iNXvI/AAAAAAAAACs/zrRt2kkHbU4/s320/DSC03610.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5264950370883165938" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Lions and Tigers and Bears Oh My!  Here is our little Dorothy!&lt;div&gt;(She is not crying..that's just her squinty smile)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SRDcd8N02EI/AAAAAAAAACk/aFQyK277f8M/s1600-h/DSC03607.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SRDcd8N02EI/AAAAAAAAACk/aFQyK277f8M/s320/DSC03607.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5264950371334543426" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;May the force be with you.  Princess Leia is ready for Trick or Treating!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6773004471952737830-1629169810528866137?l=cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/1629169810528866137'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/1629169810528866137'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com/2008/10/halloween.html' title='Halloween!'/><author><name>Michelle Cotton</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14688766356309184142</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SRDcd6iNXvI/AAAAAAAAACs/zrRt2kkHbU4/s72-c/DSC03610.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6773004471952737830.post-1722361068866482977</id><published>2008-10-28T14:29:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-11-04T16:33:58.664-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Pumpkin Patch</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SRDp4cTaPOI/AAAAAAAAAC8/ndsrEqL5Cwo/s1600-h/DSC03540.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SRDp4cTaPOI/AAAAAAAAAC8/ndsrEqL5Cwo/s320/DSC03540.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5264965120275660002" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SRDNTCp3fZI/AAAAAAAAACc/XTrNJJkLSuw/s1600-h/DSC03538.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SRDNTCp3fZI/AAAAAAAAACc/XTrNJJkLSuw/s320/DSC03538.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5264933691409792402" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Sisters at the pumpkin patch.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6773004471952737830-1722361068866482977?l=cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/1722361068866482977'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/1722361068866482977'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com/2008/11/pumpkin-patch.html' title='Pumpkin Patch'/><author><name>Michelle Cotton</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14688766356309184142</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SRDp4cTaPOI/AAAAAAAAAC8/ndsrEqL5Cwo/s72-c/DSC03540.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6773004471952737830.post-5996254700447939467</id><published>2008-10-23T14:11:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-11-04T14:26:14.521-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;Disneyland!!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SRDJGq9AZ0I/AAAAAAAAACU/NDlw5fmTbXc/s1600-h/DSC03409.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SRDJGq9AZ0I/AAAAAAAAACU/NDlw5fmTbXc/s320/DSC03409.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5264929080842676034" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SRDJGcwgB9I/AAAAAAAAACM/-PaNAD2na4c/s1600-h/DSC03408.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SRDJGcwgB9I/AAAAAAAAACM/-PaNAD2na4c/s320/DSC03408.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5264929077032126418" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;We spent a few fun days with family at the happiest place on earth.  &lt;div&gt;Here are some pics on King Arthur's Carousel!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6773004471952737830-5996254700447939467?l=cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/5996254700447939467'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/5996254700447939467'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com/2008/11/disneyland-we-spent-few-fun-days-with.html' title=''/><author><name>Michelle Cotton</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14688766356309184142</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SRDJGq9AZ0I/AAAAAAAAACU/NDlw5fmTbXc/s72-c/DSC03409.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6773004471952737830.post-9190954123786295033</id><published>2008-10-10T13:52:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-11-04T14:27:12.420-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Snow already?</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SRDFFK0tUgI/AAAAAAAAABs/HZriTKROpZ4/s1600-h/DSC03294.jpg"&gt;&lt;img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SRDFFK0tUgI/AAAAAAAAABs/HZriTKROpZ4/s320/DSC03294.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5264924656991556098" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px; " /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;It started off as a very light snow.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SRDFQhBMWjI/AAAAAAAAAB0/wQ4E3CgxV9s/s1600-h/DSC03296.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SRDFQhBMWjI/AAAAAAAAAB0/wQ4E3CgxV9s/s320/DSC03296.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5264924851928062514" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Seeing snow for the first time - had to taste it!&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SRDGmky5IpI/AAAAAAAAACE/9YuIFZCeTFM/s1600-h/DSC03307.jpg"&gt;&lt;img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SRDGmky5IpI/AAAAAAAAACE/9YuIFZCeTFM/s320/DSC03307.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5264926330410574482" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px; " /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;By the end of the day this is what it looked like.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6773004471952737830-9190954123786295033?l=cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/9190954123786295033'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/9190954123786295033'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com/2008/11/snow-already.html' title='Snow already?'/><author><name>Michelle Cotton</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14688766356309184142</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SRDFFK0tUgI/AAAAAAAAABs/HZriTKROpZ4/s72-c/DSC03294.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6773004471952737830.post-5775005448020347671</id><published>2008-10-06T13:36:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-11-04T13:49:56.658-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Wildlife...</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SRDDFquB42I/AAAAAAAAABk/Q3117jMyet0/s1600-h/DSC03280.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SRDDFquB42I/AAAAAAAAABk/Q3117jMyet0/s320/DSC03280.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5264922466530222946" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;This cute little bunny lives in our backyard.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SRDCw0r4BKI/AAAAAAAAABc/UgDgjCkHGKg/s1600-h/DSC03273.jpg" style="text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;img style="text-decoration: underline;display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px; " src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SRDCw0r4BKI/AAAAAAAAABc/UgDgjCkHGKg/s320/DSC03273.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5264922108428289186" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;The bluejays come eat peanuts on our deck.&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); text-decoration: underline;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6773004471952737830-5775005448020347671?l=cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/5775005448020347671'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6773004471952737830/posts/default/5775005448020347671'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://cottonfamilyblog.blogspot.com/2008/10/wildlife.html' title='Wildlife...'/><author><name>Michelle Cotton</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14688766356309184142</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dqLJ4KebpnA/SRDDFquB42I/AAAAAAAAABk/Q3117jMyet0/s72-c/DSC03280.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry></feed>
