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Emma and I started our Tuesday with a horseback ride through the Black Hills. Afterward Braden and Olivia met us for a 4 hour UTV ride through the Black Hills. We stopped to wade in a creek, eat wild raspberries and explore an abandoned gold mine. I have never been
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Our very first long road trip in the bus was to Mount Rushmore and South Dakota three years ago. What's crazy about this picture from 3 years ago....? (1) Olivia is now wearing the same clothes that Emma was in back then. (2) You will probably see photos
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One day you're in labor for 28 hours... The next day they're 7 years old...!
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This was the second year in a row that we made it to all 20 parks in our city. The girls didn't really like this one, so we didn't end up staying very long... but it was long enough to cross it off the list.
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We're so close! I had planned to go to the remaining 2 parks on my list today. Luckily while we were at the first one I remembered Olivia had soccer this morning! We'll just have to save it for another day. Olivia has been looking forward
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I'm not a huge blueberry fan... unless its in something delicious like muffins or pie. But man... blueberry picking is so much better than strawberry picking. 3 pounds of blueberries. I have a bunch of new recipes I'm ready to try.
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The midwest doesn't play around when it comes to cheese curds. Since they couldn't have a traditional cheese curd festival this year they did a drive through one instead. We drove almost an hour to get some delicious curds. I don't think Braden wants
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Emma has swimmer's ear, so the doctor said no going underwater for 5 days. Yeah... that's going to be impossible. Luckily today was in the 60s, which meant it was the perfect day for visiting some parks. This morning we had 5 parks left to go
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We had a lot of inedible bread... which meant it was time for a visit to the duck pond. After we ran out of bread we took a walk around the pond to check out the turtles.
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This is one of my favorite places to visit in the summer. We didn't make it there last summer, so when the girls asked this morning what we were going to do today this was the first place I thought about. Olivia was 2 the last time we
