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throwback thursday (september 3, 2019)
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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first cross country meet
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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one more park?
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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park weather
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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mn state fair food parade
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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wrapping up summer
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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throwback thursday (august 27, 2019)
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another beach day
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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last camping trip 2020
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
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throwback thursday (august 20, 2019)
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sunflowers
Emma loves sunflowers. For years she has asked if we could plant some in our yard. Finally this year we got around to planting three different kinds of sunflower seeds. I forgot how tall they get! We have a lot, so every couple days I cut some and bring them
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cross country
Emma loves running track. The track season is in the spring (April and May), and like most things it got cancelled this year. I got an email from the same club that organizes track saying it is time for cross country and this year Emma was old enough to do