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We've been spending a lot of time at home with Emma not feeling well. Now that she's feeling better (not 100% yet... but way better than she was) I was itching to get out of the house this weekend. On Saturday we ended up at REI.
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We got a lot of snow yesterday, but at least it was warm enough for us to get outside and enjoy it... and by warm I mean over 30 degrees! It was perfect sledding weather. Our neighbor friends have the neighborhood sledding hill in their backyard, so we headed over
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We've been taking it easy, but really needed to get out of the house. No one had any stomach issues for over 24 hours, so we thought the grocery store would be a safe outing. Turns out we weren't in the clear yet. Emma ended up
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Sometimes plans don't go the way you want... Monday night I think I got maybe 3 hours of sleep. Emma didn't sleep at all and was up all night running to the bathroom. Olivia slept through everything, but Braden and I did not. We tried to
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We always take the bus to Duluth over Memorial Day weekend. Last year we decided we wanted to check it out during the winter. Braden ended up taking this week off, so we decided to take a 3 day trip up to Duluth again during the girls winter break. This
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I can't remember the last time we've been to the zoo (I feel like I say that every time we visit). With the girls in school and so many fun no school day places to go we really don't get to the zoo that
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I've been mentally preparing for this day for weeks. It started with Olivia's last basketball game of the season. I'm so glad she tried basketball. She really had fun doing it... and she's pretty good. We had to leave the basketball game
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Emma started following this local place's YouTube channel over a year ago, and since then has been asking for a snake. Surprisingly she knows a lot about them - all the different kinds, what they eat, how to set up their habitat. I've been against it.
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We loved spending Thanksgiving in Wisconsin Dells last year, so why not do it again? This time we surprised the girls with the trip... and we brought some friends along. The last time we came the girls really wanted to drive the go carts, but Emma isn't old
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Another weekend... another basketball game. This was her fifth game. In the first 4 games she maybe scored 1 or 2 baskets. This game I stopped counting at 8. Emma said she made 11.