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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
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We really lucked out with our travel plans this holiday. We made it home last night with only a 45 minute delay. There's quite a bit more snow that when we left.
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The second requested activity from the girls was to go to a duck pond. We went to one, but apparently the ducks have been relocated and there are signs everywhere saying not to feed the waterfowl. 🤷🏼♀️ The girls took it pretty well, and ended up playing at the park instead.
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Two things the girls wanted to do while we were in Florida (1) beach, (2) duck pond. Today it was the beach. Emma was very excited to try riding some waves on a boogie board.
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Since Braden is working in Florida, and Emma has 3 days off school we decided to spend Thanksgiving in Florida this year. Sounded like a great plan... until we were forecast to get 9 to 13" of snow the night before our flight. Emma could tell I was worried
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I love eating breakfast at a restaurant, but we rarely do it. I had a brilliant idea to go out and made reservations for Sunday brunch. After brunch and a trip to Home Depot this happened. It's not his favorite thing to do, but he did it... with
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Today was a packed day. We started the morning at the children's Christmas store that Olivia's preschool does. Emma loves coming and shopping for the family every year, and this year Olivia was old enough to do it too. The girls couldn't wait to
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In September Braden and Emma got to spend the night at the farm at the zoo. Last night they got to spend the night in the aquarium at the zoo. They got to go behind the scenes with an aquarist. Emma said this one was better than the farm one.
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Olivia had a day off of school today. If I let her pick we would have ended up at Crayola, but I wanted to do something different today. So we headed into St. Paul to visit the Children's Museum. It's been a while since we'
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It's been a very girly day. Emma had the day off, but Olivia didn't. While Olivia was at school I took Emma to get our nails done. After we picked up Olivia from school we spent the afternoon having tea at a mansion. The place was
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Braden had to be in Florida this weekend and I was worried what we were going to do all weekend without him. Good thing we have lots of barn projects! The girls did tons of exploring and playing. There is a lot to see on 5 acres. The property hasn&