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summer
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summertime!
Summertime is in full swing! We packed a lot of fun into one day. Caterpillars 🐛 Cooking class 👩🏼🍳 Bike rides 🚲 Animals 🐍 Carnival 🎡 Pony rides 🐴 Ice cream 🍦 Princesses 👸🏼 Bounce houses 🏠 Plus we squeezed in some pool time before calling it a night! 🏊
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show time!
Nine months of dance classes end with a busy dance recital weekend! Emma did amazing in all 3 of her dances - tap, jazz and ballet. 💕 Her two biggest fans got to watch from the second row, while Olivia stayed with a friend. We're super proud at how
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last day of school
I can't believe my sweet baby is officially a 1st grader! 💕 She wore the same dress that she did on the first day of school. It's a little shorter, but it still fit. To finish off the school year we rode bikes to school. We celebrated
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thunderstorms
We’ve had some rain. Actually... we’ve had a lot of rain. Three days of almost constant rain. It’s not just a sprinkle either. It’s the huge rain drops, hail the size of a quarter, pitch black outside in the middle of the day kind of rain.
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apple picking
At 90 degrees it’s doesn’t really feel like apple picking season. But our favorite apples are available now, so we had to go before they are all gone. It’s amazing how quickly the four of us can pick 53 apples (18 lbs). An apple picking trip wouldn’
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throwback thursday ( september 13, 2017 )
throwback thursday ( september 13, 2017 )
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my own bike
I don’t know the last time I owned a bike. I don’t really remember riding a bike very much as a kid, only rollerblading. I’m also pretty sure I never had a bike with gears. Beach cruisers are more my speed. Now that Emma is without training
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that’s all folks
Despite several pleas from neighbors to keep the pool open one more week, the neighborhood decided today would be the last day. It was chilly and rainy, but there were lots of kids getting one last swim in.
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summer recap
I'm planning to ask Emma all her favorite things we did this summer. I didn't realize until I started putting together this list how busy we've been the last couple months... and this doesn't even include every single thing we did! CAMPING
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great mn get together
There is nothing like the Minnesota State Fair. We decided to brave the rain this morning in hopes that everyone else decided to stay home. They didn’t. Our first stop on the way in - the butterflies. If it was just me and Braden we would have never gone
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throwback thursday ( august 30, 2017 )
throwback thursday ( august 30, 2017 )