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winter break: day 10

erin

Jan 3, 2023 — 2 min read

New Years Eve! Last year we had two other families over to ring in 2022. The girls had the best time staying up until 2 AM, so they've been begging for us to do it again. We made arrangements with our friends a month ago, but with the way our winter break was going I wasn't sure it was going to happen. Olivia was determined to make it happen. She spent all day helping in the kitchen and cleaning the house.

Emma took another nap....

We pulled it off! Olivia and I opted for formal attire, while Braden and Emma took the comfy route.

We had lots of food to eat.

We've been cleaning up the basement and Braden found our boat flares from 2012. They expired in 2013 so the company recommended they be disposed of. Done!

one year

It is pretty crazy that it has already been one year since we pulled the girls out of school and moved onto our boat in the Caribbean. In the last 12 months we've been to 9 countries and 15 states. We've lived in a house, a

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solar eclipse

On Easter we traded in our swim suits for sweatshirts and pants and flew back to Minnesota. Crazy... I know. A bit of backstory - in 2017 we took our bus to Casper, WY. It was the first big trip on our bus and we were going to a rally

winter break: day 10

erin

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one year

back in the usvi

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