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We got a lot of snow yesterday, but at least it was warm enough for us to get outside and enjoy it... and by warm I mean over 30 degrees! It was perfect sledding weather. Our neighbor friends have the neighborhood sledding hill in their backyard, so we headed over
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Clean up day. It was time for Olivia's birthday decorations to come down. They were winter themed and she begged to keep them up until the New Years party, but after almost a month of being up it was time. Christmas decorations also came down.
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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
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I can't remember the last time Emma took a nap. She's taken at least one a day since the day after Christmas. Since we're still just hanging around the house I decided today was the day to take the lint catcher off the dryer.
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We've been taking it easy, but really needed to get out of the house. No one had any stomach issues for over 24 hours, so we thought the grocery store would be a safe outing. Turns out we weren't in the clear yet. Emma ended up
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Sometimes plans don't go the way you want... Monday night I think I got maybe 3 hours of sleep. Emma didn't sleep at all and was up all night running to the bathroom. Olivia slept through everything, but Braden and I did not. We tried to
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We always take the bus to Duluth over Memorial Day weekend. Last year we decided we wanted to check it out during the winter. Braden ended up taking this week off, so we decided to take a 3 day trip up to Duluth again during the girls winter break. This
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Last night before bed Emma told me she was getting me up at 7:30 AM. Sure enough... both girls came running into our room right at 7:30 AM ready to start the day.
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Yesterday we got lots of snow. The pretty, powdery, sparkly stuff. But today... no blizzard. It was a very, very cold, sunny day. How cold...? It was make icicles on your eyebrow cold. Since I thought there was a blizzard coming we had play dates and baking planned for today.
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What do you do after the crazy day we had yesterday? You have a spa day. The Snowtopia Spa treatments included manicures, pedicures, make up, massages and tattoos. Even Braden got some spa time with the girls...
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I've been mentally preparing for this day for weeks. It started with Olivia's last basketball game of the season. I'm so glad she tried basketball. She really had fun doing it... and she's pretty good. We had to leave the basketball game
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