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Spring Break!
We picked strawberries, canned jam, played and play and played at many playgrounds, had several play dates, late night parties, dinner dates and lots of backyard outside time. Ike swing, swang and...
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Take it down the field!
Eliza started city soccer this spring. She plays on a 3/4 year old team, the green jaguars, and while I personally think soccer is probably the most boring sport on the face of the earth, tot soccer is...
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Wisteria
(Last week)My wisteria is almost five years old and this year it finally bloomed! I was SOOOO excited, absolutely beautiful!(This week)
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Project Weekend - Emm meets electrial for the first time!
Projects # 2,8, 18 & 26Jared was out of business for part of the week and I had some time to crank out some house projects. I actually pruned my trees a few weeks ago, our neighbors had an electric...
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Truck, Truck!
Friday night we went to a birthday party. Our city fire department has a really great program where they will come out to your party with the trucks and let the kids climb in them. Erin was not amuzed...
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Double Trouble
These two have a love hate relationship. When they find common ground it typically involves mischief.
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Mamas dusting off her running shoes
Pre-raceI haven't ran in years...so this spring a group of girls from church decided it was time to get out heinie's in gear and put some miles behind a us. A few had never ran before in their life and...
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The Great Migration
Over the past year we have noticed a trend, several old friends are returning home. LA, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Atlanta, Baltimore, Oklahoma City all returning to the upper Midwest triad(Iowa,...
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Transition - Leaving Texas
Time to dust off the blog, We are still alive and well! The past three months our lives have been a blur. While at the time it seemed like chaos ruled and logic was lost, we now are settling down to...
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Settling down in Iowa
Our first month in Iowa has been great (a bit chaotic but it feels right). To start from where the last post left off, everything was fine and dandy, the moving truck was to leave Thursday and be in...
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St. Louis and Foo Fighters
Jared and I heard south last week. Now that we live near family we took full advantage and spent our first full weekend away from the kiddos. Jared's parents came to CR to watch the herd as we escaped...
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8 Years!
Its hard to believe its been eight years and its been a wild ride....In eight years we have:Backpacked Belize and Guatemala, slept with the jaguars in the jungle and hitchhiked from village to...
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Mother of the Year Award
So the blog has been a bit boring lately, here is a story for you. I FORGOT MY CHILD. I only have three, its not like it should be hard to keep track of them, but for some people like myself, it is....
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Welcome Home
ViewBasementWell almost.... We closed on our second home yesterday. As always it was a bumpy process but we finally made it to closing (which signing papers was much less stressful this time around)!...
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Fall Whirlwind
The fall passed without notice. And yes it is officially winter here because Dairy Queen closed today. We have had beautiful weather. Even today was t-shirt weather for a few hours in the afternoon.We...
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Blast from the Past
Time was short this fall so sadly I didn't get around to making the kids costumes. However we went to Jared's parents a few weeks ago and the kids found an old bin full on costumes that Grandma Linda...
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Winter?
Where have the past few months gone?? We had a wonderful Thanksgiving and Christmas with our families. It was nice for once not to speed two weeks in the car. We slowed work on the house to finish...
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The Trunk
Jared has been out of town on business for a few weeks, so last week I took the kids back to my homestead in NE Iowa. My parents have 10 acres on the outskirts of town (a town of 1100 and dwindling)....
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The Kitchen
Before - Realtors PhotoA little drywall and paint, $10 light from Lowes and it looks like a Midwest kitchen!I ran into an old friend on Saturday and she asked if she would EVER see the house....I said...
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Entry, Office, Dining & Living Room
Before & AfterEntrywayLiving RoomOfficeThe office didn't have many holes, yay!Formal Dining RoomYes, the fixture is hideous, it our own personal Liahona. When we figure out how to change out the...
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