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Nine months of dance classes end with a busy dance recital weekend! Emma did amazing in all 3 of her dances - tap, jazz and ballet. 💕 Her two biggest fans got to watch from the second row, while Olivia stayed with a friend. We're super proud at how
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I can't believe my sweet baby is officially a 1st grader! 💕 She wore the same dress that she did on the first day of school. It's a little shorter, but it still fit. To finish off the school year we rode bikes to school. We celebrated
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It's beginning to feel like summer! I told Emma when it got warm out she could ride her bike to school.... so that's what we did. It's a 6 minute ride and most of it is on the trail that runs through our neighborhood.
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While we were in Duluth the neighborhood pool opened. Monday was cold and rainy, so we couldn't go then. Tuesday was only in the 60s, but Emma couldn't wait any longer. I didn't have any dinner plans, so she thought it was the perfect
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Emma talked Braden into one final stop before heading home... the aquarium. It's a pretty cool aquarium. We've gone every time we've been in Duluth. I've never seen a place where you can touch jellyfish! 😲 This is also the only place I&
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I've always wanted to go to Split Rock Lighthouse and Gooseberry Falls. The lighthouse is only an hour from Duluth, so we made Sunday our day trip day farther north. We did a 20 minute tour, and then walked around the lighthouse. Next stop was Gooseberry Falls. You
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Duluth has a railroad museum, which is super cool. If you're ever in Duluth, MN I highly recommend it. You could spend an entire day just walking in and out of dozens of different train cars. We visited the museum last year, but didn't know about
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We're continuing a new tradition of spending Memorial Day on the bus in Duluth. The weather was cold and rainy for our drive... and fog. Lots and lots of fog. After we made it and parked the bus we had dinner at the Mexican restaurant. They have the
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One of the previous owners in our house planted a rain garden (aka weed garden) in the back corner of our house. It always looks like a mess, so I was ready to get rid of it. I forgot to take before pictures, but I found these old pictures showing
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