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| 5.1.19 (I looked out the window and what did I see?) |
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| 5.1.13 (reminded me of another May Day we had - this one in Colorado and with even more of the fluffy white stuff!) |
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| 5.1.13 (so yes, it happens, and it was melted by the afternoon, which makes it a-okay with me) |
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| 5.1.13 (when all of your holds come in at once - what should I read next?!) |
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| 5.1.19 (see? since the snow melted and the sky turned blue, we took some time post-library pick-up to play at the park) |
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| 5.1.19 (love these smiley faces!) |
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| 5.1.19 (Gregg enjoyed some blue skies, too, at NSAA in San Diego) |
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| 5.1.19 (the struggle is real - not only did I have four books come in at the library today, I also had four books waiting to be read at home. #bookwormprobs) |
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| 5.2.19 (here's Dad's scooter that he rode all over San Diego while at his conference, including to the airport when he was finished (which earned him much praise and adoration from fellow conference attendees)) |
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| 5.2.19 (Thursday morning science time - and this time Sam got to play, too!) |
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| 5.2.19 (Cal was a good teacher) |
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bonus videos!
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(cal's faves!)
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| 5.4.19 (Saturday is a special day - it's the day we install the trailer hitch on the Subaru!) |
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| 5.4.19 (flower break!) |
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| 5.4.19 (the fritillaria are blooming!) |
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| 5.4.19 (back to the action in the garage) |
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| 5.4.19 (the kids got creative on the driveway with the trunk contents - this was a fishing raft) |
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| 5.4.19 (helping) |
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| 5.4.19 (creative helping - see that shovel and chair and tire jack holding up the muffler side of the hitch while Gregg tightens things down?) |
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| 5.4.19 (all done! nearly four hours later because of a rusted muffler, but it's done!) |
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| 5.4.19 (Cal's homework sentences this week cracked me up) |
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| 5.5.19 (Sunday evening strolls) |
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| 5.5.19 (our tulips are blooming!) |
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| 5.6.19 (Sam and I made a detour to check out the reservoir on our way home from dropping Cal at school) |
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| 5.6.19 (it's filling up!) |
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| 5.6.19 (but I've definitely seen it higher, so we'll see how the next few weeks go with snowmelt - see how much is still up there at Snowbasin?) |
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| 5.6.19 (Heather texted me this pic of Grace because I love Indian Paintbrush and she saw some on a hike - doesn't she look so big?!) |
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| 5.6.19 (exploring a new-to-us disc golf course + park at Fort Buenaventura) |
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| 5.6.19 (big slide = big fun) |
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| 5.6.19 (#swingingsammy - haven't done one of those pics for a while) |
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| 5.6.19 (family selfie time) |
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| 5.6.19 (stump posing, part 1) |
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| 5.6.19 (stump posing, part 2) |
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| 5.6.19 (the river was high, but this pic is of that interesting bird on the end of that log) |
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| 5.6.19 (zoomed in - what is it?!) |
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| 5.6.19 (loved this book!) |
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| 5.7.19 (Cal talked me into buying some chocolate milk powder when we were at the store - I didn't notice what kind I had bought until we got home - do you notice anything peculiar about this label?) |
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| 5.7.19 (how about this one?) |
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| 5.7.19 (still haven't tried it, but I'm curious if it tastes different from the english version) |
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| 5.7.19 (I attempted Mel's "best" cinnamon rolls because a) I've been dreaming about cinnamon rolls lately and b) I wanted to make a treat for my ministering sisters for mother's day. They were HUGE!! And not nearly as pretty as Mel's . . . at this point I was kind of worried about how they'd turn out) |
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| 5.7.19 (verdict: GINORMOUS!! What?!) |
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| 5.7.19 (frosted and nearly ready to share - and they tasted awesome, so I worried needlessly) |
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| 5.8.19 (that hashtag says it all - that box is full of my portion of the order, but I got these ones for Heatha (at $1 a piece, no less!). Gotta share the book love however I can!) |
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| 5.8.19 (our plum tree blossoms are really there! I always think they'll never come back, but they always do. Only this time they're a couple weeks late. I usually see a memory pop up on facebook on April 27th that they're blooming, and every time I think, "no way that they're blooming this early!" and then I look out and they are. Except this year!) |
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| 5.8.19 (a storm's a comin' - and so are our leaves - finally!) |
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| 5.8.19 (love them!) |
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| 5.9.19 (I really love this tree and this view - in every season! (check it out on 10.1.18, 11.8.18 and 12.4.18)) |
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| 5.9.19 (food truck night at Valley Elementary was a bit on the chilly side so they opened up the gym and we dined on World's Greatest Corn Dogs in the lunch room) |
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| 5.9.19 (this is half of a foot long corn dog that he split with Cal) |
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| 5.9.19 (drizzled in honey! a sticky delicious mess!) |
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| 5.10.19 (while making mother's days cards, Sam decided to also draw a picture of him skiing - note the red skis, the red hat, and the red gloves (and the gray snow, because he didn't have a white marker).) |
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| 5.10.19 (a beautiful dandelion field and the snowcapped Snowbasin in the background on our walk to school) |
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| 5.10.19 (Callie's class bulletin board in the hallway at school this month.) |
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| 5.10.19 (Callie's cute butterfly.) |
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| 5.10.19 (I'm sorry, but I just really love the cheery yellow dandelion fields all over our neighborhood right now.) |
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| 5.13.19 (Fabulous finds at the library.) |
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| 5.13.19 (dining on panda express outside the Ogden High pool before we headed in to watch Coach Mikey and his varsity girls water polo team) |
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| 5.13.19 (Cal and Sam insisted on making signs for Michael before we came) |
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| 5.14.19 (heading home from the park - zoom in on Sam and his standing pedaling skills!) |
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| 5.14.19 (it was such a warm day and he played hard!) |
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| 5.14.19 (Gregg sent me this pic from his conference in Quebec to show me what he scored to bring home for the kids. Best dad ever!) |
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| 5.14.19 (mont tremblant, where Gregg's conference was) |
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| 5.14.19 (looks like a storm's a brewin' - it got really windy for a few minutes, but then it blew away) |
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| 5.14.19 (the crabapples are blooming at last!) |
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| 5.14.19 (seriously good cloud day) |
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| 5.14.19 (monkeys in my tree) |
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| 5.14.19 (facetiming with Dad on the hammock) |
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| 5.14.19 (I snuck back out to the hammock for some quiet time after the kids were in bed) |
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| 5.15.19 (another hammock time break, this time mid-day during Sam's nap) |
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| 5.15.19 (reading and loving this one) |
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| 5.15.19 (right before I had to wake him up to head to school to pick up Cal) |
| bonus video! "waterfalls from dad" 5.15.19 (Gregg sent this video he took as he wandered around Mont Tremblant in Quebec)  |
| 5.15.19 (they're so stinkin' cute!) |
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| 5.15.19 (from Becoming - I liked her story about skiing) |
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| 5.16.19 (Cal got to go on her first field trip ever - to the fire station!) |
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| 5.16.19 (then all the kindergarteners and their parents and siblings picnicked at the park - it was mayhem!) |
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| 5.16.19 (big beast I nearly stepped on tonight on our walk around the loop) |
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| 5.17.19 (we're so glad when daddy comes home!!) |
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| 5.17.19 (I got a wild hair and decided to try Mel's Oreo Chocolate Chip cookies - holy moly! These are dangerous!) |
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| 5.17.19 (moody may sky, but we didn't get too wet on our walk to get Cal!) |
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| 5.17.19 (hello, mid may - and fresh snow on the seven sisters!) |
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| 5.17.19 (finally blossoms!) |
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| 5.17.19 (baked up and ready to be devoured) |
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| 5.18.19 (the lawn needed to be mowed, which meant the tulips needed to be picked or shredded in the mower) |
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| 5.18.19 (my helpers did a great job making this lovely arrangement) |
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| 5.18.19 (workin' hard on the trailer!) |
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| 5.18.19 (home sweet home - I love this view. and I love that we have red tulips again this year! Last year they were ALL yellow, but the years before we had red. Don't know what's up with our bulbs, but they sure keep us guessing) |
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| 5.19.19 (finished this one and really loved it. it's a super quick read since it's in graphic novel form. I've heard a lot of great things about it, but I never realized that it was somewhat of a memoir of the author's childhood experiences. I think that made me like it even more. Great stuff!) |
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| 5.19.19 (the rain started Thursday the 16th and there is no end in sight. Just another spring in Utah. Wait, what?) |
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| 5.20.19 (spring has sprung at the library! and I don't know why this photo looks blurry - on my phone and on google photos it looks fine, but here it is wigging out my eyes. so if it is doing that for you, too, I'm sorry!) |
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| 5.20.19 (this sight makes my heart go pitter pat - he is IN LOVE with the nonfiction section at the library. today we got books about ants, spiders, trains (always), dinosaurs (always), drones, and firemen/trucks) |
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| 5.20.19 (one of said train books, though this one is not from the nonfiction section) |
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| 5.20.19 (YES! I love when I find these gems, and believe me I take full advantage of them!) |
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| 5.21.19 (I thought they just needed a fancier name for red potatoes, but then I realized they're maybe like a cross between reds and yellows? I haven't eaten any yet but I'm intrigued) |
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| 5.22.19 (we got to help out at field day at the elementary school, and in between groups of students, Sam took advantage of all the bounce house time) |
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| 5.22.19 (here come the kindergarteners!) |
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| 5.22.19 (crazy callie!) |
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| 5.22.19 (my job was to stand at the bottom of this giant slide and make sure the kids weren't bouncing, running, or flipping down the slide. it gave me prime photo-taking-time when it was Cal's turn to slide) |
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| 5.22.19 (between classes again - this time Sam got brave and climbed to the top of the giant slide all by himself!) |
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| 5.22.19 (the gym was full of bounce houses - I guess this is field day when the weather is cold and rainy?) |
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| 5.22.19 (by the time the 6th graders came through, he was waiting in line right with the big kids (nbd)) |
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| 5.22.19 (nothin' like a popsicle on a dreary, blustery day) |
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| 5.22.19 (Sam helped me make (and taste) a new hummus recipe - super yum!) |
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| 5.22.19 (zero apple blossoms on this tree this year) |
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| 5.22.19 (also zero) |
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| 5.22.19 (that's all we got - guess we're not making apple sauce this fall) |
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| 5.23.19 (not our apple blossoms - just some beauties on my walk home from school) |
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| 5.23.19 (at least they're blooming somewhere) |
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| 5.23.19 (Callie had a little awards ceremony and slide show in her classroom and we got to come watch. She received the "bright ideas" award for her class) |
bonus video!
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| 5.24.19 (Cal really wanted to give her teacher some last-day-of-school cookies. She made this adorable card/note, too.) |
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| 5.24.19 (some goodies from this week) |
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| 5.24.19 (saw this at the library and automatically thought of my mom and sister - so I sent it to them) |
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| 5.24.19 (they're the ones collecting rain and recording it on an app every day!) |
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| 5.24.19 (Heidi Heckelbeck lover - she got like four new ones and read half of one before we left the library) |
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| 5.24.19 (dinosaur lover - and yes, he was wearing this same shirt on Monday when I took a similar pic of him (but I did do laundry in between!)) |
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| 5.24.19 (last day of kindergarten!) |
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| 5.24.19 (officially the first day of summer break (after school got out early) and it sure doesn't feel like summer!) |
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| 5.24.19 (look at how she's grown!) |
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| 5.24.19 (happy mail day!) |
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| 5.24.19 (at least the sun came out for a bit on our way home from the last day of school - aren't these amazing? (not mine, but we get to walk past them every day on the way to school and back) school |
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| 5.24.19 (tires are on (not pictured) and lights are getting wired up!) |
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| 5.24.19 (last day of school celebration at Toad's (using Cal's free attraction coupon from her awards day at school)) |
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| 5.24.19 (it was a fun course, and quite beautiful with the spring flowers) |
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| 5.24.19 (we played on the "castle" course (they have three different courses to choose from)) |
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| 5.24.19 (after we got pizza at Ogden Pizzeria - it was delish!) |
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| 5.26.19 (sunday best - patriotic style just in time for Memorial Day) |
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| 5.26.19 (look at these cute faces!) |
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| 5.26.19 (we had a fun group birthday party in West Haven on Sunday afternoon to celebrate Kage, Gregg and Cal (and Father's Day to boot)) |
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| 5.26.19 (birthday trifle!) |
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| 5.26.19 (marble time) |
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| 5.26.19 (isn't this the most adorable thing you've ever seen?!) |
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| 5.26.19 (we enjoyed the perfect evening in the back yard with a little golf and baseball practice) |
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| 5.27.19 (flower girl at the Hyde Park Cemetery) |
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| 5.27.19 (flower kids in Hyde Park) |
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| 5.27.19 ("Grandma Lamb's" grave (and Grandpa's, too)) |
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| 5.27.19 (my great grandparents Elwood) |
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| 5.27.19 (my great grandparents Thornley) |
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| 5.27.19 (my grandma Thornley) |
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| 5.27.19 (my great grandparents Anderson) |
bonus video!
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(the rain stopped and they got outside)
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| 5.28.19 (playing with her new (early bday present) stamps from gma and gpa blanchard) |
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| 5.28.19 (she wanted to do math facts, so I wrote a whole page full and she stamped the answers) |
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| 5.28.19 (she got 100%!) |
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| 5.28.19 (choke cherry blossoms in my backyard) |
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| 5.28.19 (have I mentioned the rain? the mushrooms seem to be thriving because of it) |
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| 5.28.19 (our lilacs are almost ready to open!) |
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| 5.28.19 (don't know why the coloring is different on this one - lighting must have changed) |
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| 5.29.19 (I liked these first two paragraphs - I think I could get along with Miss Payne and Miss Cannon) |
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| 5.29.19 (finished! (this it the book the page above is from) and I really like it!) |
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| 5.30.19 (we met up with Gregg's parents "in the middle of nowhere" for a picnic lunch in a field turned parking lot on the side of the road one Thursday afternoon) |
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| 5.30.19 (we were also there to watch the Northrup Grumman rocket test fire, along with probably a couple thousand others) |
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| 5.30.19 (the crowd was huge! we got there more than an hour early and sat and ate in the sun while we waited for the test to start) |
bonus videos!
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| 5.30.19 (the test lasted for about 2 minutes and the fire was so bright we couldn't even look at it directly. I loved the cloud of smoke that was created and watching how it changed shape and color as time went on) |
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| 5.30.19 (after the rocket motor test, we went home, hooked up the trailer for its maiden voyage out of the valley, and headed to Home Depot to buy wood!) |
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| 5.31.19 (my friend Erin is an artist and she stayed up late one night doodling this cute picture, which she said was inspired by me because I "love books more than anyone (she) knows". Haha. I'm honored!) |
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| 5.31.19 (we enjoyed a little walk/scootering on the bike path by the reservoir, which always ends at the beach by middle inlet that has the best trees to climb and play in. Our favorite and usual tree was surrounded by water since the lake is so full right now, but we found others that were still super fun) |
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| 5.31.19 (isn't that view magnificent?!) |
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| 5.31.19 (yogic scootering) |
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| 5.31.19 (Heather recommended this one to me and after reading the first chapter I already saw magical results! I'm a believer! (if I can just remember to use the tools and tips instead of defaulting into grouching and threatening).) |
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| 5.31.19 (Cal came up with the theme and most of the activities we nailed down for her friend party coming up soon! she's so excited!) |
We just looked at all these fun photos and they make us so happy! Thank you so much for posting!
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