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Braden and I celebrated Valentine's Day a day early with a fancy wine dinner with some friends. Some of these dishes sounded kind of gross, but everything was delicious. Our favorites were the 3rd and 4th courses. It was a good thing we did because after that everything
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Hershey and Oreo are ringworm free! Whew. I love these cats, but man... I am ready for them to get adopted. They have been by far the most mischevious kittens we've had. They are into EVERYTHING - the toilet, the trash, the fridge, Olivia's Legos. It
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Remember when I said Olivia has become fearless? Last year she wouldn't tube at all. Today she went the full 2 hours... and didn't want to leave when our time was up.
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The girls didn't have school Thursday and Friday, so when our friends asked if we wanted to spend a night at Great Wolf Lodge we figured why not. This is one of those places that every time we go we say we're never going again... but
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Olivia has been looking forward to tonight for weeks. The daddy daughter dance! The dance was fairy themed, so she wore her wings... and a crown, of course. Braden said Olivia usually does a little dancing, but she really just likes to do the crafts.
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Who knew we would be the people attending a reptile show? But here we are... I was expecting this to be like any other expo. We'd walk around, look at stuff and that was it. I didn't realize just about every vendor booth would be offering
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In 1st grade the kids learn about Chinese New Year. They end their lesson by making a dragon for the Chinese New Year parade through the school. They all got to pick 3 jobs they would like to do for the parade - head, body, dragon tamer, banner holder (Emma
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The girls school gives out character awards each month. The teachers nominat kids for demonstrating whatever the theme is that month - gratitude, empathy, acceptance, etc. Yesterday when Emma got off the bus she said she had to tell me about something that happened at school. When we got home
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