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A Bit of Bum: My Christmas Wish List
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A Bit of Bum. Saturday, December 26, 2009. My Christmas Wish List. Here's what I got for Christmas:. 1 A two-week vacation. 2 Snow, which I wasn't exactly thrilled about. 3 The chance to shake a boy's hand who had always wanted to meet a "real soldier." I didn't mention that I was in the band. 4 Wake up every morning next to my wife. 5 See the faces of two kids light up on Christmas morning when they got just what they wanted. 6 See the face of my wife light up when she joined the 21st century.
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A Bit of Bum: Happy Veteran's Day
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A Bit of Bum. Monday, November 9, 2009. A short while ago, the Army School of Music Student Company took a trip to Washington, D.C. The purpose of the trip was to meet some of the musicians who work with the Army's top band, Pershing's Own. However, a secondary purpose was to help us remember what our role is as musicians in the Army. We were constantly being stopped to take pictures with people; adults and children. We also had people yell at us from a distance, "Thank you for your service! Life as a Bum.
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A Bit of Bum: Caden's Birthday
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A Bit of Bum. Sunday, July 5, 2009. We've decided to have an early birthday party for Caden since we were moving. He wanted a firetruck theme party. 引っ越しやら何やらで忙しかったため、恵伝の誕生日パーティーを早めにした。消防車のケーキがほしいと言うので…。 Firetruck cake was a disaster. でも前が重過ぎてケーキの前がつぶれてきてしまい、フロスティングをぬったあとにクラッカーとかを下に入れたり上にのせたりで最悪な仕上がりに。一応子供は喜んでくれたからいいかあ。 最初にゲームをした。キャメロンがダンボール箱でワイマウント（前に住んでたとこ）を作って、赤いティッシュをいっぱい火事に見えるように作ってくれました。それを子供たちが水鉄砲で消すって言うゲーム。楽しかったみたい。 After we had did the cake and the presents, we all went to a fire station.
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A Bit of Bum: February 2009
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A Bit of Bum. Monday, February 23, 2009. Farm Country ポニーに乗ったよ。 先週末、恵伝と真椰の病気が治ったのでthanksgiving pointにあるfarm countryに行ってきました。そんなに大きくないねんけど、色々動物が見れるし、ポニーに乗れるし、入場料$3.50やし、２歳までタダやし。恵伝は前に１回行ったことあったんやけど、真椰は今回初めてでした。もう入って牧場内に足を踏み入れた瞬間に恵伝はダッシュ。 We went to Farm Country (Thanksgiving point) last weekend. It was nice to get out since both Caden and Maya were sick for almost 2 weeks. As soon as Caden saw the pony ride, he ran. You can see how happy he was. Maya had no idea what was going on. Monday, February 9, 2009.
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Penrose Family: April 2012
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A working mom, a working dad, a busy kid, a busier toddler, and the busiest baby. Thursday, April 19, 2012. My accompanying fee is $50. That includes a one hour rehearsal and an hour for a performance. Most performances are less than that, but that would include any rehearsal time beforehand or something. My fee is very average and definitely worth it for what I can do. I accompany any instrument or vocal solo and can do beginner to very advanced music. It takes work. I'll get it to you as soon as I can!
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Penrose Family: May 2011
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A working mom, a working dad, a busy kid, a busier toddler, and the busiest baby. Tuesday, May 31, 2011. Okay, I promised pictures of the whole "Arm Breaking" episode. Sooo - here we go! Ella has her old cast on.it was just a simple splint with an ace bandage around it. Sad face.until she saw the BRIGHT PINK cast she was going to get. Here she is being a REALLY good girl for the dr! She didn't whine, cry, fuss, nothing! She just sat there and did everything he asked. Such a good girl! I agree. :). Ella l...
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Penrose Family: European Tour
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A working mom, a working dad, a busy kid, a busier toddler, and the busiest baby. Friday, February 20, 2015. So last June I had the opportunity to travel with the Utah Valley Youth Symphony Orchestra around Europe playing the solo part of Rhapsody in Blue with them. Our stops included Poznan, Poland, Berlin, Vienna, and Prague. Needless to say, I felt like a rockstar. Our first stop was Berlin. Holy cow. I LOVED BERLIN. Oh my gosh. I can't say enough. It was SOOOOOOOOO fantastic! The city was beautiful!
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Penrose Family: February 2012
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A working mom, a working dad, a busy kid, a busier toddler, and the busiest baby. Thursday, February 2, 2012. To Blog or Not To Blog? Work II: Tom is starting a business with his brother doing taxes. So far things are trucking along, but slowly. Right now he is trying to juggle so many things that it is crazy. He is doing his MBA program (AND GETTING STRAIGHT A'S EVERY SEMESTER *shout out! Macaroni and cheese and candy. Big surprise. She looooooves to play Old Maid and Go Fish and do puzzles....Anyway, t...
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Penrose Family: Thoughts on Parenthood...
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A working mom, a working dad, a busy kid, a busier toddler, and the busiest baby. Saturday, September 14, 2013. This is one of the most scatter-brained posts I've ever written, so I apologize that is barely cohesive! Read at your own risk :) * *. I've been reading a lot of blogs, posts, news articles, etc. regarding motherhood/parenthood/etc. and it seems like they are all carrying the same theme: "don't compare yourself to other parents.you are doing a fine job.". Are parents really that insecure? She d...
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Penrose Family: Being a working mom...
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A working mom, a working dad, a busy kid, a busier toddler, and the busiest baby. Thursday, October 3, 2013. Being a working mom. So now its just a waiting game between him gaining experience and waiting for the next step up. Now, having said all the positive things about my job, there were some unknown side effects that I did not see coming. I've been trying to pin point what it is exactly that makes being a working mom so hard and I have come up with a few bullet points:. I'm going to respond with, "Oh!
