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| 5.1.20 (just had to document the below $2/gallon price I saw at Maverik on my way to Winco for our bi-weekly grocery run - it's even lower now!) |
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| 5.1.20 (most of our 2-week supply (minus the freezer stuff I already put away) - this was the trip that came three weeks after the last trip I took! I'm still super impressed with myself for making it work that long!) |
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| 5.1.20 (root hairs on our wheat sprouting experiment) |
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| 5.1.20 (mold, too!) |
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| 5.1.20 (the egg heads we planted are sprouting!) |
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| 5.1.20 (Today's math assignment was science, too! Cal and Sam made boats out of tinfoil and then counted how many coins they could float in the boats before they sunk. Cal took it a step further and added up how many cents her coins were worth!) |
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| 5.2.20 (Gregg and Cal mostly did this one (after I got it out, turned over all the pieces, and put together the border)) |
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| 5.2.20 (backyard buds are close to bursting!) |
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| 5.2.20 (leaves coming in on the alive side of the nest - and blossoms at the top!) |
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| 5.2.20 (according to my records, these plum blossoms are a bit later than usual (I've typically seen them on April 27th, but last year it wasn't till May 8th!)) |
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| 5.2.20 (I spy some kids in a tree. Kids in a tree, how can that be?) |
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| 5.2.20 (the last tree mess I'm going to tackle in the back yard - here's my before shot) |
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| 5.2.20 (and after - there's still actually a ton of dead branches and trunks inside, and I really don't love all the horizontally growing branches, but this is good enough for me for now.) |
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| 5.2.20 (but seriously, what is this?!!) |
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| 5.2.20 (why has it taken 5 years for us to try out this fire place? It works great!) |
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| 5.2.20 (After a temporary test run sleepover in the garage with the kids on April 30th, Gregg went to town on our teardrop remodel - he cut out the shelf that the kids slept on last year, leaving enough for some storage for us but leg room for us to turn over in the night) |
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| 5.2.20 (and then he installed a bunk bed at the front for the kids!) |
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| 5.2.20 (cozy as can be!) |
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| 5.2.20 (time to go camping!!) |
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| 5.4.20 (Callie said she wanted to go sketch the tulips this morning. So she did!) |
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| 5.4.20 (blossoms on blue) |
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| 5.4.20 (they've been playing together SO well these past couple of months. Makes my momma heart burst!) |
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| 5.5.20 (Callie decided she also wanted to write her own chapter book, so I helped her cut out the paper and staple it together and she got right to work!) |
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| 5.5.20 (Sam chose to write his own copy of The Book With No Pictures. "I want to read this book" :) |
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| 5.5.20 (library love from our recent curbside pickup - these were all excellent) |
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| 5.5.20 (The library closed on March 17th, and all my St. Paddy's picks hadn't come in by then, so we got them in May and read them and loved them anyway) |
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| 5.5.20 (Cal really loved this series) |
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| 5.8.20 (a little backyard basketball on a glorious evening!) |
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| 5.8.20 (it was time to harvest the tulips (because it was time to mow the lawn they were growing in)) |
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| 5.8.20 (such a cheery sight!) |
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| 5.8.20 (definitely past their prime, but still a lovely bouquet) |
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| 5.8.20 (happiness in a vase) |
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| 5.8.20 (a special addition from Sam, my dandelion sharer) |
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| 5.9.20 (Callie calls this our "not totally social distancing" group shot from a little party we had in Grandpa and Grandma Blanchard's backyard for Mother's Day. We had Lee's Fish and Rice takeout and ice cream bars and had a great time visiting. We even took a walk to see some baby ducks, a muskrat and a big old turkey) |
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| 5.9.20 (our new swimming pool came! And while it wasn't super warm, the kids played and splashed and froze their bods anyway) |
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| 5.9.20 ("I'm too cold to look at you!") |
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| 5.9.20 (sunny smiles) |
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| 5.9.20 (my friend Erin shared this with me - she found it on pinterest during one of her book illustrating inspiration sessions there, and she said it was me if I were a squirrel.) |
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| 5.10.20 (I got my traditional Mother's Day pic with my kiddos - and this time Gregg brought out the big camera which made it extra nice) |
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| 5.10.20 (I'm so glad I get to be their mom!) |
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| 5.10.20 (this is what our home church looks like - and yes, Callie is as angelic as she looks) |
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| 5.10.20 (blossoms at my parents' house are looking mighty fine) |
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| 5.10.20 (we spent a few hours out under this flowering pear tree eating a picnic lunch and visiting with my parents and Megan. It even "snowed" petals on us when the breeze came through. Why I don't have a picture of the people, I can't say! After, we went to see my grandparents in Hyde Park and visited with them for a while on their driveway. I'm glad we can still do some distanced socializing, especially on a gorgeous Sunday like this) |
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| 5.11.20 (Sam suggested making cheese balls for grandmas for Mother's Day, and I thought it was a great idea! I didn't have any walnuts or pecans like I usually use for the outside, but I did have a handful of slivered almonds and craisins and they were so yummy I think I might do it this way all the time!) |
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| 5.11.20 (getting ready for FHE - we made this assignment sheet once in Relief Society in Vail and have been using it faithfully for the past couple of years. Cal and Sam take turns filling it out and conducting our meeting each week.) |
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| 5.12.20 (Callie says, "I made this out of clay!! in the boarder is a family and the guy to the right is a junior ranger telling about the duck.") |
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| 5.12.20 (we had a sort of social distancing play date with Gracie - we ate a picnic lunch outside and rode bikes/walked to the lake to dip feet and then came back to swim in our pool) |
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| 5.12.20 (cooper came, too, and was the smiliest guy (though maybe not at this exact moment) |
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| 5.13.20 (my starter is doing great things! I think I'm ready to try bread!) |
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| 5.13.20 (more hammock book time - we all enjoyed this book) |
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| 5.13.20 (I did it! 100% naturally leavened sourdough bread with my own starter! I'm so ridiculously proud of this I took a selfie with my finished loaf haha) |
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| 5.13.20 (it was beautiful and delicious! (It really tastes like sourdough!)) |
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| 5.13.20 (we had some for dinner with soup that night) |
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| 5.13.20 (I just had to document the weird leaf growing up through the deck) |
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| 5.14.20 (it was the most beautiful evening ever!) |
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| 5.14.20 (I was playing a round of disc golf with Gregg in the yard after the kids were in bed, but I kept stopping to snap pics of the sky) |
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| 5.14.20 (mystery blossoming bush in the back corner of our lot - every time I walk by it smells like banana jolly ranchers, I swear!) |
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| 5.14.20 (see what I mean by gorgeous!?) |
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| 5.14.20 (still obsessed) |
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| 5.15.20 (another one down - I did almost none of this one except the border and turning all the pieces over when they first came out of the box! Makes me want to visit Chicago.) |
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| 5.15.20 (we decided to check out the free lunch at Snowcrest. They gave us an entire pizza!) |
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| 5.15.20 (a lovely evening for a walk/bike ride around the loop) |
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| 5.15.20 (a beautiful day in the neighborhood!) |
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| 5.15.20 (I didn't know we had this crabapple right outside our bedroom window!) |
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| 5.16.20 (a most unique memoir of the author's grandmother told through her stories and voicemails and conversations. I flew through this! A nice diversion.) |
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| 5.16.20 (mask sewing for the whole family!) |
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| 5.16.20 (I figured it would be good to have something on hand if we ever need one for anyone other than me) |
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| 5.16.20 (matchy matchy boys) |
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| 5.17.20 (Bear Lake done and done) |
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| 5.18.20 (art pick up day from Mrs. Anderson) |
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| 5.18.20 (I found this one the table and had to snap a pic it's so cute) |
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| 5.18.20 (A sample of Sam's writing as of late. "I am Speed. I eat loser . . .) |
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| 5.18.20 ((the other side) . . . cars for breakfast" (Sam's favorite line from Cars 3.)) |
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| 5.19.20 (lilac lovlies in our yard) |
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| 5.19.20 (putting practice by the disc golf basket is very fragrant these days!) |
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| 5.19.20 (we're working our way through these collections again while we're in the car and they are still so great and relevant and entertaining as ever. highly recommended!) |
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| 5.20.20 (on a bike ride to the cemetery) |
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| 5.20.20 (lovely cloud day!) |
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| 5.20.20 (checking out the sheep through the fence) |
bonus video!
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| 5.20.20 (today's soudtrack) |
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| 5.20.20 (playing a scavenger hunt game with her class on google meet) |
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| 5.20.20 (I really liked this page in I Miss You When I Blink. Her writing is witty and creative and I really enjoyed reading her thoughts) |
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| 5.20.20 (Amish Harvest bites the dust! and that is the end of our run of borrowed puzzles! Whatever will we do with this table now?!) |
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| 5.21.20 (record rain for our gauge!) |
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| 5.21.20 (here's the cover for the page I posted above. I liked this memoir told in a collection of essays. Some of her lines are laugh-out-loud funny and other parts are so heartfelt and beautiful. Very well written. But watch out for language - definitely more than I love or gravitate to normally, but I read the whole book anyway.) |
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| 5.21.20 (Fantastic nonfiction picture books! The top two were repeat reads for us, but totally worth revisiting. The bottom two were new to us. Cal is into all things Jane Goodall and the George Washington Carver is a brand new book this year that was excellent!) |
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| 5.21.20 (We got on a Tomie hold-making spree. Sure do love his stuff. Most of these were new to us. He has so many gems!) |
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| 5.21.20 (And rounding out our faves from the latest library haul: the fiction loves. Lots of variety and all awesome in their own ways.) |
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| 5.22.20 | (I didn’t know he wrote novels, and I didn’t meant to put this one on hold, but once I started reading it, I couldn’t stop!) |
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| 5.22.20 (last day of 1st grade gift for her teacher) |
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| 5.22.20 (and a cute card) |
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| 5.22.20 (when Mrs. Anderson opened this, she said, "there's your essay!" then she told her new 2nd grade teacher, Mrs. Bruggink, "Callie doesn't write sentences, she writes essays!") |
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| 5.22.20 (riding bikes on the last day of school to pick up her letter telling who her new teacher will be next year and to deliver the present she made for Mrs. Anderson) |
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| 5.22.20 (we didn't really even wear the mask, but I had to document the covid school look) |
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| 5.22.20 (off we go!) |
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| 5.22.20 (pit stop at the white lilac bush for a photo op) |
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| 5.22.20 (end of school celebration lunch from pat's and walkie talkies as a welcome to summer gift) |
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| 5.23.20 (I thought I was done with this tree a few weeks ago but then I got a wild hair and started sawing out more branches. here's the completed version. for now.) |
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| 5.24.20 (Sunday baking project was Chocolate Swirled Banana Bread - holy moly yum!) |
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| 5.26.20 (bought myself a kitchen scale for the sole purpose of optimal sourdough - here's its maiden voyage) |
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| 5.26.20 (they were so red-faced and hot after playing basketball behind the school I had to let them cool off in the ditch across the street) |
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| 5.26.20 (we love this spot) |
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| 5.26.20 (they ventured up and down the block and found this truck with visible roots) |
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| 5.26.20 (and to the other end where the "waterfall" is) |
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| 5.26.20 (our neighbor Janay was putting her garbage can on the curb while we were playing and said her grandkids love this spot, too. She calls it the Secret Garden and it really is!) |
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| 5.26.20 (sunset sublime) |
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| 5.26.20 (did a full recipe (two loaves) this time!) |
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| 5.27.20 (Sam asked me to make him a paper airplane "like Erin makes" and when I said I couldn't remember how to fold one like her he drew me these instructions. "It needs two points like this!") |
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| 5.27.20 (we planted a garden in our back yard today! I made (it was surprisingly a struggle for some reason, normally she likes this kind of thing) Callie draw us a map so we could remember what was planted where) |
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| 5.27.20 (our park evenings are very rare these days (this was the first time we have stopped at the park in months, normally we just walk by) but this one was especially lovely) |
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| 5.27.20 (date night with my dishy burning sticks in the fireplace in the backyard) |
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| 5.28.20 (there's the garden - time to water!) |
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| 5.28.20 (a lovely day for a walk to the lake) |
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| 5.28.20 (I spy a pelican!) |
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| 5.28.20 (we were lucky to snag a spot on the always crowded and very small beach) |
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| 5.28.20 (they played here for a couple hours!) |
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| 5.28.20 (I had to wander into this tree to get a break from the sun every once in a while - it was toasty! and I even got my first "sunburn" of the season on one side of my leg) |
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| 5.28.20 (heading home I had to look back and snap this with the lilacs and the woad and the trees and the sky and the snow-capped mountains and the dirt - so many colors!) |
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| 5.28.20 (first poppy!) |
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| 5.28.20 (a new addition to this freshly painted barn across from the park) |
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| 5.28.20 (manicures in the shade) |
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| 5.28.20 (and pedis too) |
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| 5.29.20 (this was beautiful and informative! and excellent combo!) |
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| 5.29.20 (Cal was helping to unload some cans from my grocery run and dropped one on her foot. YOWCH!) |
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| 5.30.20 (a plethora of seeds - they just keep coming like snow (and we get rid of them by shoveling them off the deck every. single. day) |
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| 5.30.20 (Sam made this double loop track all by himself!) |
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| 5.30.20 (Callie saw this listed in the June Friend Magazine so we put it on hold and it is awesome! So many fun ideas using things from around the house and clear instructions and pictures. I feel like the author and I could be friends after reading her bio at the end.) |
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| 5.30.20 (Cal is at it again with her playdoh diaramas - this one is a scene of national parks with a geyser, an arch and a car driving to see it all) |
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| 5.30.20 (Sam made a skier in the trees) |
March, April
This was one of your best posts EVER! so fun to see all of the great things you guys are doing! Thanks for sharing!!!
ReplyDeleteI love the play-doh diaramas. The sourdough loaves look delish - I tried that recipe this week and we (T and I, Grace has become rather picky) loved it. Did you like doing it in a regular pan?
ReplyDeleteIt's like another world in the ditch there, and all you have to do is cross the street! So magical!