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That's it for summer... fall weather is officially here, both girls had their meet and greets with their new teachers and school starts on Monday for Emma and Tuesday for Olivia! Emma asked if we could go to some parks we've never been to on their
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Olivia's first day of 3s preschool!
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Our last monarch hatched today. This one we got by accident from an egg on the milkweed plant we picked to feed our other caterpillars. Monarchs usually fly away pretty fast, so the girls don't always get to hold them. This one took its sweet time.
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Emma's first day of 1st grade... also the day there was a sewage leak at school and they called all the parents to pick up the kids by noon.
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If someone would have told me Emma would love cross country I would have never believed it. I had to basically twist her arm to even sign up and try it this year... but she LOVES it. For the last month she's been running 1.2 miles twice
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I found out yesterday that apparently our city has a new park that isn't listed on the city website. Since we've been to every park in our city 2 years in a row that meant we had one more park to go to this summer. The
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We're almost past the pool weather days of summer and into the park weather days of summer. Today was a perfect park weather day.
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A couple months ago the MN State Fair announced they were going to do a food parade since there couldn't be a fair this year. It took me 45 minutes to buy tickets online the moment they went on sale. Luckily I got some, and in 2.5
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I hate that summer is coming to an end already. Its getting darker earlier... Our last two caterpillars are turning into butterflies... We're squeezing in every last part of summer we can. Emma's school is starting later this year to prepare for all the new changes.
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The girls slept until 9:30 AM! 9:30 AM! That hasn't happened all summer. I guess that is what 5 hours at the beach does to you... so why not do it again? I have a feeling its going to take a couple good washings to get
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Camping 2020: 5 cancelled trips, 2 long distance road trips and only 4 local campgrounds (compared to 7 last year). What a crazy camping season! This is our last weekend of camping for this year. We camped here last year in October... and it snowed. I didn't really
