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kayak season
It's officially kayak season! Sunday was our first trip down the Cannon River this summer. Doesn't matter how cold the water is, these girls always want to be in it.
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that's a wrap...
This morning Emma had her last dance recital recording for ballet. We are officially all done with dance for this year. Afterward we headed out to the barn for the afternoon. The plants have grown like crazy since the last time we were there. This was the biggest lady bug
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last day of 1st grade!
This has been a crazy school year... the first day of school ended early because of a sewage leak at the school. The last day of school ended with distance learning for the last 45 days. This afternoon Emma's school had a farewell parade. Usually on the last
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funky
I just found 87 photos of Olivia from the day when she was "funky". Clearly she has having a lot of fun taking selfies...
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distance learning: day 44
One of Emma's assignments this week was work on a memory book. This is one of the pages she did today... ❤️ I saw on Facebook this morning that a beach is open about 20 minutes from our house. The girls have been dying to swim, so we went
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throwback thursday (june 4, 2019)
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distance learning: day 43
Today Emma had a meeting with her librarian, art teacher, music teacher and PE teacher. They did some stretching, fun games and singing. At some point today Olivia decided she wanted to "get funky". I wasn't sure what that meant, but apparently this is it. This
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distance learning: day 42
Monday was the last day the teachers gave them a bunch of assignments. For the rest of the week they only have a couple fun assignments to complete. This was the first day since distance learning started that there weren't tears over her assignments (from Emma or me)
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distance learning: day 41
It's the last week of school! Emma had some assignments to complete Monday morning, and in the afternoon we went up to the school to say goodbye to her teacher. Her teacher gave each kid in her class a custom clipboard with memories from 1st grade. I have
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we did it!
I've been trying for 3 years to visit all 20 parks in our city. Despite my best efforts this summer we were 5 short. Then we were given the most amazing fall day today... AND there was no school! The girls and I (plus some friends) made it
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apple picking
This is probably my favorite fall activity... plus all the baking that comes after it. Today's baking was 2 batches of apple cookies. 5 apples down... 45 to go. 😂
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olivia's turn
It's amazing how different Emma and Olivia are. For the first month (maybe 2) of preschool Emma cried every morning at drop off and sometimes had to be pried from my arms. Olivia's first day and she didn't even say goodbye to me! 😫😂✌🏼 After