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One of the Christmas traditions we started is driving around to look at Christmas lights with the girls. We bring hot chocolate and popcorn, which I think the girls love more than looking at lights. We even stopped by to see the Grinch. It was all over the news up
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It's been a fun and exhausting couple of days. On Christmas Eve morning we hosted our annual cookie party. There were lots of kids and lots of cookies. On Christmas Eve evening we went to a friend's house for dinner. It was after 11 PM when
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This morning we had to check out of our room, but we could use the water park all day. The rooms aren't anything special, but they have bunk beds. We spent most of the day swimming. Emma even tried out the boogie boarding. By far her favorite is
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A couple weeks ago I booked a night at Great Wolf Lodge. We didn't tell the girls and wanted to surprise them when we got there. That was much harder than I thought it would be! I've been dying to tell them. This time we got
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Emma's school asked for volunteers to bring cookies to the teachers. Emma I spent our Sunday morning baking, sprinkling and taste testing. Emma wrote this sweet note to the teachers. Her teachers favorite color is orange, so she always uses orange paper when she does notes to the
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I've been wanting to take Emma to a ballet so she can see real ballerinas. One of the local dance studios does a Minnesota themed nutcracker. While we were enjoying watching sugarplum fairies, Braden and Olivia were riding rides at the mall. After the ballet, Emma and I
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I've thrown a good amount of parties for the girls - birthday parties, tea parties, cookie parties. This was the first time one of them requested a party somewhere other than the house. I do love all the decorating and planning that goes in to parties at the
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Happy birthday to this goofball! She might be 4 now, but she's still going to only eat the icing off her cake.... 🤷🏼♀️
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When I mentioned getting tickets for the princess ball this year, Olivia was excited. Emma and Braden didn't want to go. So... Emma spent the day with a friend, Braden did his own thing and Olivia and I went to see some princesses. She was very excited to
