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Shanty Town
Daddy and I got this idea on New Years Eve. We had some extra large boxes hanging out in the garage and made this house. It has been pulled apart, kicked apart, and literally knocked over but it has...
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Baby Beluga
We call Mimi Baby Beluga right now. She will still be Mimi on here because I am sure one day she will not allow us to call her a whale anymore but I love the nickname. We have a song that goes with it...
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Quite frequently the girls ask to cuddle while trying to fall asleep. Then after we cuddle they ask again. It has become a regular thing to tell them that if they are quiet for five minutes we will...
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Adjustment prediction
I have this hunch that Mimi isn't going to adjust well to having a new baby. I don't remember thinking the same with Bumpkin adjusting to Troublemaker. I don't have any particular reason and I would be...
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Pumpkin Smash
Since I finally caught up on the here and now I will go back a little ways. The day after Halloween the girls and I went to a Pumpkin Smash festival. There were all kinds of ways to destroy the...
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Recently, I have been calling Mimi the wrong nickname. Like on a daily basis. While Troublemaker earned her nickname by being a daredevil Mimi could honestly wear it well too. But hers is more for...
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Halloween
I just realized I never posted Halloween pictures. Our neighborhood is awesome for trick-or-treating. We have tons of kids and everyone gets into it. So we had some friends over and went as a large...
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Trip to Nana's birthday
A couple weeks ago we went to Nana's 80th birthday party and made a trip of it. We got a hotel in Omaha and had some fun in the way. The girls loved swimming in the hotel pool. Mimi was a little scared...
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Snow Day Fun
February brought the snow we had been lacking for awhile. And it brought a lot. School was cancelled three days in a weeks time. Bumpkin and Troublemaker are finally at the age where they love the...
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Spring Break 2013
Ok so it is time to play catch up again. I got out of the blogging habit but I am back again now! So here's to getting caught up before the new baby comes and I fall behind again. :) Spring break...
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Digging Holes
So as promised here is the what happened on our last day of spring break. We had to get our plumbing fixed! How fun! We had a belly in the line from our house to the street. It had backed up into our...
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Circus
Earlier this year we went to the circus. We went with some friends and had a great time. Mimi was so impressed she was overwhelmed and really just sat there in awe. I am honestly surprised she didn't...
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(Semi) recent cakes
Here are pictures of the cakes I have made recently. Also, the Avengers cake I made lake last year with the figurines on it. The cakes included are Troublemakers 5th bday cake (she didn't want much bc...
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Bumpkins frog
I have to say my kids can draw better then me already. I have only ever mastered drawing a house. Here is Bumpkins frog she drew last week, without tracing or looking at pictures...
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The Zoo
I finally bit the bullet and bought a pass to our local zoo. I am an admitted zoo snob. I grew up going to one of the best zoo's in the world but didn't know it. Now as an adult my standards are...
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Professional Pictures
We went in around Easter and had pictures taken of the girls. Here is the one I paid to have the rights to post.
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American Girls and Science City
Bumpkin and Troublemaker have been asking for American Girl dolls for awhile now. Probably a year actually since they first started asking but I really thought they would move on. However, their fakes...
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Easter 2013
We really didn't do much for Easter this year. Mommy will admit being tired and not on top of the learning about the season experiences like last year. However, we did start something I hope to...
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Mickey Mouse Cake
I made matching Mickey and Minnie Mouse cakes for a friends daughters recently. I should have gotten a picture of them next to each other but I was quite frankly tired of taking them in and out of the...
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Great Wolf Lodge
We surprised the girls with a trip to Great Wolf Lodge last week. I was so excited to surprise them! They had heard of it before but didn't really understand what it was. So it was exciting to surprise...
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Jungle Cake
This cake was made for our neighbor and good friend E. she turned 7 and had a jungle theme party.
View ArticleFirst Piano Recital
Bumpkin had her first piano recital in May. She did so well! She was the youngest by three school years but still didn't show any nerves. As you can see in the video during one of her songs she did...
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Week before birth
The summer weeks before DeeDee's birth were packed with summer camps, lessons, and softball games. And eventually grandma joined us so she could be here to help when the new baby arrived. Here are some...
View ArticleWelcome back
Alright, so I went radio silent for awhile. Not that there are more then five people that read this blog but I still want to keep it. The blog is less about our life being important enough to have...
View ArticlePhoto Book
Here is a link to a recent photo bookhttp://share.shutterfly.com/action/welcome?sid=2AaOWjFm3ct3OQ&cid=SFLYOCWIDGET
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