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A friend of mine invited me and another one of our friends to celebrate her birthday with a spa day and a night out in downtown Minneapolis. The girls were looking forward to some daddy time. They had a blast shopping at Target, eating pizza, going to Crayola and riding
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This might be my favorite thing that Emma's school does. Today is the last day of a 2 week reading fundraiser. To celebrate the kids and teachers dress up as book characters. Last year Emma chose Fancy Nancy. This year she went with Pete the Cat. I loved
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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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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. 😂
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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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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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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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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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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
