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off to texas
We're in Texas for a couple days to celebrate Braden's grandmother turning 90... plus I'm hoping to squeeze in a couple fun places while we're here.
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christmas lights
One of the Christmas traditions we started is driving around to look at Christmas lights with the girls. We bring hot chocolate and popcorn, which I think the girls love more than looking at lights. We even stopped by to see the Grinch. It was all over the news up
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merry christmas!
It's been a fun and exhausting couple of days. On Christmas Eve morning we hosted our annual cookie party. There were lots of kids and lots of cookies. On Christmas Eve evening we went to a friend's house for dinner. It was after 11 PM when
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water park fun
This morning we had to check out of our room, but we could use the water park all day. The rooms aren't anything special, but they have bunk beds. We spent most of the day swimming. Emma even tried out the boogie boarding. By far her favorite is
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surprise!
A couple weeks ago I booked a night at Great Wolf Lodge. We didn't tell the girls and wanted to surprise them when we got there. That was much harder than I thought it would be! I've been dying to tell them. This time we got
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a minnesota nutcracker
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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birthday party day
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 4th birthday!
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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home sweet winter wonderland
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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duck pond fail
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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beach day
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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it will be ok
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