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I've been wanting to take Emma to a ballet so she can see real ballerinas. One of the local dance studios does a Minnesota themed nutcracker. While we were enjoying watching sugarplum fairies, Braden and Olivia were riding rides at the mall. After the ballet, Emma and I
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I've thrown a good amount of parties for the girls - birthday parties, tea parties, cookie parties. This was the first time one of them requested a party somewhere other than the house. I do love all the decorating and planning that goes in to parties at the
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Happy birthday to this goofball! She might be 4 now, but she's still going to only eat the icing off her cake.... 🤷🏼♀️
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When I mentioned getting tickets for the princess ball this year, Olivia was excited. Emma and Braden didn't want to go. So... Emma spent the day with a friend, Braden did his own thing and Olivia and I went to see some princesses. She was very excited to
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We really lucked out with our travel plans this holiday. We made it home last night with only a 45 minute delay. There's quite a bit more snow that when we left.
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The second requested activity from the girls was to go to a duck pond. We went to one, but apparently the ducks have been relocated and there are signs everywhere saying not to feed the waterfowl. 🤷🏼♀️ The girls took it pretty well, and ended up playing at the park instead.
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Two things the girls wanted to do while we were in Florida (1) beach, (2) duck pond. Today it was the beach. Emma was very excited to try riding some waves on a boogie board.
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Since Braden is working in Florida, and Emma has 3 days off school we decided to spend Thanksgiving in Florida this year. Sounded like a great plan... until we were forecast to get 9 to 13" of snow the night before our flight. Emma could tell I was worried
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I love eating breakfast at a restaurant, but we rarely do it. I had a brilliant idea to go out and made reservations for Sunday brunch. After brunch and a trip to Home Depot this happened. It's not his favorite thing to do, but he did it... with
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Today was a packed day. We started the morning at the children's Christmas store that Olivia's preschool does. Emma loves coming and shopping for the family every year, and this year Olivia was old enough to do it too. The girls couldn't wait to
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