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jersey day
Today was the first day of school this week after 4 snow days in a row. It happened to be jersey day. Emma doesn't have her own, so I had her try on my FSU jersey. My Preston Parker jersey has been with me for a really long
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egypt's sunken cities
A couple weeks ago Emma's school got a presentation from the Minneapolis Institute of Art about their Egypt's Sunken Cities special exhibit. Since then she's talked non-stop about going to see it. She was very excited to show us the things they talked about
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mini vacation
As with all our vacations these days I ended up at the doctor with Olivia who has a double ear infection. Luckily we're basically at home, so I was able to get in, see her doctor, grab her prescription and head back to the hotel. A little ear
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great wolf lodge
I've been wanting to spend a couple nights at a hotel with a waterpark for a long time. Emma has a 4 day weekend... and it's supposed to be really cold, so it seemed like the perfect weekend. We checked in, unpacked, then walked around the
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spring in january
We've been having some unusually high temperatures for January. We made the most of it with smoked meat and a bike ride this weekend.
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getting off the boat
Bad weather in Galveston closed the port, so the ship wasn't able to dock at its scheduled time for us to get off. We took advantage of some extra hours on the ship. When Braden and I first started dating (all the way back in 2000!) he went
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christmas cruise - day 6
On the last day of the cruise (Wednesday, December 26) there was a little something for everyone. The adults attended an adults only brunch. In the afternoon I took the girls to a royal tea party. We also got to see Mickey! After all that fun in one day we
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christmas cruise - day 5
Merry Christmas (Tuesday, December 25)! Our first event of the day was decorating gingerbread cookies. We followed it up with more characters, an adult chocolate and liquor tasting followed by naps. Naps meant Braden and I could enjoy a really late martini tasting while the girls played in the kids
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christmas cruise - day 4
On day 4 (Monday, December 24) we stopped in Grand Cayman. The four of us spent the afternoon with the dolphins. Clearly Olivia has been having tons of fun on this vacation because she didn't make it the 20 minute car ride from the ship to the dolphin
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christmas cruise - day 3
On day 3 (Sunday, December 23) we stopped in Cozumel, Mexico. Olivia stayed on the ship with Braden's family, while Braden, Emma and I went swimming with stingrays. That night it was pirate night. We all dressed up for dinner in our pirate attire. After dinner we went
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christmas cruise - day 2
We started the morning of day 2 (Saturday, December 22) off with seeing Ariel, Cinderella, Tiana, Belle, Anna and Elsa. We also squeezed in a visit with Minnie Mouse. Emma spent a little time in the kids club and got her face painted. The weather was not as nice as
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christmas cruise - day 1
Emma was very excited it was time to get on the ship (Friday, December 21)! Our first stop was to check out the kids club. After a quick tour around the kids club we grabbed some lunch. Apparently all the excitement wore Olivia out. She fell asleep while I was