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TARYN NOELLE MOORE

Her 4 month anniversary having come and gone, she is beginning to develop more and more her own personality, and she lets us know it!

For those of you who haven't had a chance to get to know her. Taryn is quite the talker. At church people comment that she is getting bigger and louder. She likes to talk most when daddy has to hold her while mommy teaches sunday school. She loves smiling and talking face to face with people, though Cheri says she is becoming a mamma's girl. She's about 14 lbs and we know that's not a lot, but when you're used to Keara weighing in at 14 lbs around the year mark, it seems a lot to us. She eats a ton of rice cereal at night and has always taken her meal times very seriously.

She likes her sister well enough, even though Keara can scare her now and then. She also likes to be held upright, when she isn't she will arch her back until you move her. She rolls over from her tummy to her back and best of all...She's a THUMB sucker!!!

Okay, so that's not really a good thing. Pros and cons; she can find her own thumb and calm herself vs she won't take a binkey when she can't find her thumb.

Bring on the rice!

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Redemption

Keara turned 2 years old on the 28th of March. And Cheri was determined to have a better party (and more importantly a cake) than last year. Plus, it meant a lot more to Keara this year to have friends over.

Artwork courtesy of Sunny and Tauna.

She had about 10-12 friends come over for activities like painting, jewelry making, bean bag tossing, and tie-die shirting. We had a lot of help from Brent and Sunny's family keeping the kids attention at the various activities. Tauna and Chris delayed their leaving just long enough to be a part of it. And Grandma and Granpa Moore also got to be there.

But the important part to this party was to make up for last year's cake. Only a few of you have seen a picture of it, and thankfully fewer of you saw the actual cake...there is a reason for it. I had the genius idea to make a lego cake since that was one of her favorite toys at the time, but we did it last minute, like we do so many things, and didn't have a good frosting or enough. So, this year, with an idea from Chris and some help from Tauna and the internet Cheri put together this beautiful piece...

Inside there is a layer of ice cream and crushed oreos!

I don't know how much Keara fully understood but we do know she got the idea that it was a special day and that she was a reason for it.

Return of the Egg Races!

We had a full house for Easter this year. Brent, Sunny, and their family came over from Denver and Tauna, Chris, and Claire made the trip from LA. And seeing that there was an overwhelmingly Hicken influence present, we made sure to hold the annual After Easter Egg Races!

In front of the Mesa Temple

Had I known this was the case I would have designed an egg more suitable for winning the championship. Instead my orange egg fell apart have way through the race. I think Tauna had something to do with it, she was putting the pressure on me and was determined to win it (I have the battle scars to prove it). Instead while we were busy getting in each others way during the final heat, Brent sped away to victory.

Fortunately we were able to grab some footage of the action. As some f you fellow Demingites will note, it's almost as intense, though more exciting, than the Duck Races.