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paint a plow
Tonight our city invited kids to come put a hand print on one of their snow plows. It took the girls 30 seconds to do, but they had a good time. I have a feeling they're going to be looking for this snow plow on the road once
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apple picking
This is probably my favorite fall activity... plus all the baking that comes after it. Today's baking was 2 batches of apple cookies. 5 apples down... 45 to go. 😂
kids
olivia's turn
It's amazing how different Emma and Olivia are. For the first month (maybe 2) of preschool Emma cried every morning at drop off and sometimes had to be pried from my arms. Olivia's first day and she didn't even say goodbye to me! 😫😂✌🏼 After
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last pool day of the summer
Our neighborhood decided to keep the pool open a week later than usual. When school was dismissed early on the first day we headed to the pool because I thought that would be our last chance to swim. Then on Friday while Emma and Braden were spending the night at
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first day of dance
Last night was the first night of dance. This is Emma's third year. She's doing ballet, tap and jazz again. Olivia was super excited to start dance too! She is doing ballet and tap. Olivia also started a new session of gymnastics. She had a busy
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overnight at the zoo
Our zoo has sleepovers. Braden and Emma have always wanted to go to one, but I always remember too late and they're full. Not this time! They have 3 different sleepovers - with the bears, in the aquarium or at the farm. This one was at the farm.
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first half day of school
Well... that was an eventful 1st day of school. I got a call around noon asking me to come pick Emma up at school. There was a sewage leak on the first floor and they had to send all the kids home. 🤢 Luckily our HOA decided to keep the pool
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first day of school
Hard to believe the summer is over already! 😢
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farewell to summer
We spent the last week of summer vacation with family in town. We took them to some of our favorite places. First up was the state fair... We followed that up with a visit to the aquarium and the Mall of America. We hadn't been to Crayola Experience
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the great minnesota get together
We have family in town this week, so of course the first stop on our busy week is the Minnesota State Fair. There are so many foods that we look forward to every year... We managed to hit most of our favorites on the first day, but that won'