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A month ago when I found out Emma didn't have school today I bought tickets for tubing. Fun fact: this is the Buck Hill where Lindsey Vonn got her start. I heard our usual tubing hill was better than this one, but I had never been here and
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We've been having some warmer weather which is perfect for outdoor ice skating. It took Emma a little while to figure out how to get going, but once she did there was no stopping her. I thought maybe we'd stay 30 minutes. Of course I was
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Tubing is my absolute favorite winter activity! Yesterday we met a group of our friends at our favorite tubing hill for 3 hours of fun. By the smile on Olivia's face you would think it was hers too. It is not. She went down once and begged to
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Olivia had some teeth that didn't develop enamel. This led to her having a tooth pulled in August, and needing 2 crowns, a spacer and a couple fillings. We tried to get her first crown at the dentist office... but that didn't go well and we
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Everything is shut down in Minnesota, so there isn't anything to do outside of the house. I still feel like we crammed a lot in our last week of winter break. Tie dye shirt making, hoverboard riding, video games, sledding, sleepovers and Uno Attack. Tomorrow Emma goes back
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We celebrated New Year's Eve by sledding for the first time this winter. Olivia isn't a fan of cold weather or sledding, so she got lucky that Braden was home and she didn't have to go. I didn't know this hill existed
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We haven't had snow on the ground since October. Until yesterday. Just in time for a white Christmas! It was Oreo's first time seeing snow.
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Today Oreo went to his new home. This kitten was a little shy in the beginning. I have a feeling going from living in a cage at a shelter to living in a huge house with 2 crazy girls was a bit of a shock. It didn't take
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For the last couple years Emma has hosted a Christmas cookie party with a bunch of her friends. For obvious reasons that wasn't going to work this year, but I still wanted to do something. Instead of 10+ friends she had a mini cookie party with two of