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I love seeing all this milkweed growing at the barn. I think the girls are a little less impressed with raising monarchs this summer. We found one tiny caterpillar, but they didn't seem interested in finding any more. Yesterday morning they checked and the chrysalis was black, which
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This morning Emma asked if we could go to the mall and ride rides. We didn't have anything else planned... so why not? I talked Olivia into trying to Pepsi roller coaster since she is finally tall enough. Did it one time. Hated it. 🤷🏼♀️ I didn't
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This may be my favorite place to go in the summer... There were so many baby animals. This baby goat really wanted to eat Olivia's skirt. On the way home we stopped for lunch and ice cream.
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I have a hard time going to indoor places in the summer. We only get so many nice, hot days and I want to spend them all outside. We hadn't been to the aquarium in a long time though, so it was time. This guy was really cool.
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Friday we checked another place we missed in 2020 off the list... the water park! Olivia is not very adventurous. It takes a lot of convincing to get her to try anything. She was only tall enough to do 2 water slides, so I told her she should try one
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I've made it my summer mission to do all the things we missed out on last summer. Today it was music in the park and the splash pad. The splash pad is at the same park where the music is, so Olivia wore her swimsuit under her dress.
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Olivia got invited to celebrate her friend's birthday at the princess spa at the Mall of America. This place was fancy... right down to the kids champagne during their pedicures. Afterward we joined them for lunch at the Sugar Factory. These milkshakes were insane! Surprisingly the food was
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With our busy camping schedule we are taking a break from fostering for the summer. I've been keeping my eye out for anyone who needs a temp foster during the time we're not camping. This week we got to take care of Cortando (orange) and Cappuccino
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This was quite a year. Despite all the changes there have been lots of tears about the last day of school. Emma had the most amazing teacher this year. I've loved all her teachers, but this one was really something special. Now we're looking forward to
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Oh yes... the day I found 5,132,364,560 of these selfies on my phone. 😂
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While we were in Duluth the neighborhood pool opened. The girls were ready to go as soon as we got home. I was actually surprised when Olivia asked to go today while Emma was at school. She has never been the big swimmer, but it seems like that may be