tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27357391086792232772024-02-07T12:24:11.861-06:00The Cornell NestErinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09784684887807681302noreply@blogger.comBlogger674125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2735739108679223277.post-16651092709768497532014-06-24T07:00:00.000-05:002014-06-24T07:00:00.431-05:00Summer Round-Up<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
Tid-bits of fun I don't want to dedicate a whole blog post about. You are thrilled, I'm sure. </div>
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1. Jace is now helping himself to his own breakfast - yogurt covered raisins paired with an ankle cross. He sure is cute. </div>
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2. We got our firepit 85% done! We ended up getting some "no dig" landscaping thingys (yes, that is the technical term), put it in a octagon circle, filled it with 24,000 bags of pea gravel and put our furniture out there. We might need to finish the actual fire pit area, but I'll take what I can get. One day we WILL relax out there by a fire and roast "smarshmallows."</div>
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3. The best cake around. Justin had a birthday! We had our small group over, ordered a massive amount of Chinese food, picked up this delightfulness and devoured it all. Yes, it may be girly but trust me, every guy who made a comment about the look of the cake was literally eating their words when they tried it.</div>
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4. Frozen is still very much alive in our house - there are some days where you just need to be a reindeer.</div>
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5. Oklahoma weather doesn't cease to amaze me! It's hot, it's cold, there are tons of earthquakes and tornadoes. These two pictures were taken in June in Oklahoma. Yep, both wearing fleece because they were "soooo cold."</div>
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The same week that we started swim, I also enrolled H in the Edmond Fire Safety Village that our local fire station puts on. They have built this amazing complex that allows kids to learn the basics of what to do in an emergency! Thankfully we had a few buddies that were enrolled with us so H was PUMPED!!!</div>
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Since weren't allowed to stay and watch (<i>and </i>I had a tired little guy to put down for a nap), I really don't know WHAT they did. When I asked her about it, all I got was "popcorn, movies and juice." Well worth the $20! Not prompted, I got a little more out of H of what she learned and that she truly had a blast.</div>
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She even got this really cool t-shirt that she can grow into!</div>
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We were supposed to go back that Friday of the same week of her two days of classes, but the June Oklahoma weather rained us out.</div>
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Today was the day we got to go back so she could show us what she learned for the Safety Challenge. Can you see her expression as she is looking up at the fireman? Ha!</div>
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They laid down on the mats until they heard the alarm...</div>
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got up to run through the bounce house...</div>
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ran to put on helmets and bike to the stop sign...</div>
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run around the corner to shoot water through the hose at the cones to knock it down...</div>
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then used the tool (not toy) to knock the block from one side to the other...</div>
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to crawl through the tunnel...</div>
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I was exhausted trying to keep up with them! Probably because I had this cutie on my hip since he couldn't participate in the challenge. We found a school bus for him to pose in front of.</div>
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This year we enrolled both kids in the City of Edmond swim lessons. I was pretty excited since both like to be in the water (bath times are now a breeze) and was pumped to get them in at the same time during lessons. The tricky part is that J had to be in a "parent taught" class..and well, I knew that could cause some issues.</div>
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We were pretty excited to find out our BFF's were there at the same time!! It made getting to the pool each day that much more exciting for the kiddos.</div>
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J wanted to just be on his own for every swim lesson. He didn't want to do what the instructor asked him and he wouldn't ever show her that he CAN blow bubbles, float, etc. I know he can, because we do it in the bathtub and other pools. It's just never on command. J is just a stubborn little guy and it has to be HIS idea...which apparently swim lessons were not.</div>
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Taking advantage of the long weekend, we loaded up again and went to see Justin's parents in Missouri. It was a really fun weekend! We rolled in to town around 11pm and while my eyes were rolling back in my head, Justin was a trooper and drove the whole way.</div>
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We relaxed the next morning and really just had some down time at the house. We attempted a trip into town for shoe shopping, but came home with none. Haylie wasn't too happy with that. She <i>really needed</i> these silver Cinderella high-heeled princess looking shoes. And Jace probably would have come with the same pair, had I let either one. He loves trying on shoes!</div>
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On Sunday, we went to church and I pulled a cool trick - I locked the keys in the van. Pretty much the only time I do this is with my in-laws, so they are probably wondering why I haven't had a hidden key made! I just like to keep them on their toes. Thankfully we had the rest of church service to go so we could patiently wait on Tiger Tow to get there.<br />
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A few weekends ago, my family took a quick trip to <a href="http://www.travelok.com/listings/view.profile/id.3204" target="_blank">Jet, Oklahoma</a>. This is a State Park in Oklahoma and has a place for you to dig for salt crystals. I wasn't exactly sure what to expect, but ended up having a really good time!</div>
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We took our time getting out to the dig site, which is completely free! It was a bit chilly, so we did wear layers of clothing, but if you go in the summer, it might be a good idea to bring some type of shade. We unloaded our shovels, sifters, water and buckets and got to work. We found lots of crystals that day!<br />
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<br /> J was done in about 20 minutes - or as soon as he realized he was getting dirty. H on the other hand, loved running around with her cousins, helping dig and then finally jumping into puddles! We wrapped up in a few hours, left with loads of crystals, and headed back to eat some lunch.<br />
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While relaxing at the cabin, J was in the van when he all of a sudden started saying, "uh oh!!" he was pointing to this <i>thing</i> flying around in our van and of course I thought it was a huge, nasty bug and was about to call for Justin. Turns out, it was a hummingbird! It got in our van and was trying to find it's way out. It actually let Justin cup it carefully in his hand and then flew away. Pretty neat for the kids to see a bird up close.<br />
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I love rural Oklahoma a lot. I didn't realize it until this trip, but the fields that stretch for miles and run-down cabins have a soft spot in my heart.<br />
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On the way home, we decided to stop in Enid to sample <a href="http://www.leonardos.org/" target="_blank">Leonardo's</a>. It is SUPER fun and worth a drive from the city. It is like <a href="http://www.jasminemoran.com/" target="_blank">Jasmine Moran</a>'s children museum on a smaller scale, but one thing they have that Jasmine doesn't is a huge tree house fort that you can get so lost in! Very neat and the kids had a great time.</div>
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If you are looking for a fun weekend getaway, I highly encourage going to Jet to dig for salt crystals! It's loads of fun.<br />
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Erinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09784684887807681302noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2735739108679223277.post-76597141039328393292014-05-27T22:24:00.000-05:002014-05-27T23:03:40.327-05:00A Little This, A Little That<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Why, hello. It's been awhile and while I do have some good excuses, I will acknowledge that even if no one out there still reads this, then I guess it's my own fault. Which is okay, because I want it for me and my own memories.</div>
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But I do have some good excuses...one is being that I am running a blog. Yes, I understand the irony in that I can't keep up with my own, but a lot has been on my plate with that. Instead of the boring details, I just want to leave you with a picture of some of my absolute favorite people that I get to write alongside with.</div>
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I hope you follow along each day as these women bring you ideas, tips, parenting struggles and the like each day. I love hearing any and all feedback, so hit me with it! :)</div>
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I've also inspired my husband to do a few updates around the house. We found this light on clearance at Lowe's!! I fell in love with it and I think J is finally coming around. It brightens up the whole porch and I could not be happier. Also happening, new granite countertops!! I'll {try} to post a picture when those come in. I can not wait. Next up, backyard overhaul!</div>
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J and I are also wrapping up teaching the one of the 4 year old classes at church. Lemmetellya, that is a complicated task! We have really enjoyed the time we have spent with these kids and getting to know the kids who my daughter will hopefully spend her youth group years with.</div>
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Mother's Day also came! I loved my note from H.</div>
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Jace is absolutely adorable. He is starting to piece sentences together and his personality is really shining through! He loves to laugh and be silly/ornery. He really likes to tell you NO! Which, of course, doesn't get him very far. He loves H so much and for the most part they get along really well. Hoping that lasts forever...right???</div>
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Haylie is growing smarter and smarter each day. She is in the home stretch for finishing up Sonshine School and we will have her enrolled in Pre-K in the next month or so. She is READY! She loves school, can't wait to get there to see her teachers and her friends. Am I ready?? Not so much and yes at the same time. I'm ready for her to learn more and more but I'm also ready to be able to spend more one on one time with her (on the days Brother is in SSS). Apparently, after she graduates from High School, she wants to be a::</div>
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I think she was on a kick from when we got some snow a few weeks ago. She couldn't wait to get outside and shovel the drive. I love that she is so excited about that...now. It probably won't last until her teen years! Jace just wants to be pulled (or to actually pull himself) the wagon. Rain, shine, snow...whatever. He loves this thing. And his most often phrase now is, "I do it!!!" Mr. Independent for sure.</div>
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But they love each other. And that's why I consider myself so blessed. I know it won't always be this way but Jace wakes up asking for "Haydee" and wants to be where she is. She comes in and immediately has a calming effect on him and is very helpful in getting vitamins and chocolate milk for the both of them!</div>
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The other day I had Jace's car seat in the house to be put back in the van and Haylie was lounging in it. J went and got a chair and pulled it up right next to her to sit. Seriously, adorable.</div>
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Haylie has been expressing her bossy gene quite often lately, but is still a very sweet girl at heart. She is helpful and sets the table almost every night, helps Jace when he is throwing some sort of tantrum, and is silly and loving life. We had our friend Brixton come over last week and she dressed up quite crazy. Hippy girl!</div>
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Jace gets into EVERYTHING. Including cabinets with sprinkles. But he can open most doors and LOCKS and we often have to seriously lock ourselves into our home so he doesn't escape! He is obsessed still with fans, lights, shoes on/off, helicopters, opening the garage, stools (as in things you stand on) and saying, "I do it!!" He is working really hard on actually putting sentences together and it's pretty cute to hear what he pieces together.</div>
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Lastly, Justin ordered these rings for me for my birthday - but they just came in the mail two days ago! I love them!!! Now my babies will be with me always and my heart is so full!!!</div>
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We had a super fun, yet super busy weekend! It all started with Justin's family coming into town for a special reason for Sunday. But before we get to that, we got to enjoy some family time, I spoke at my sister's church retreat (blah, it could have gone better - nerves!), shopping at a consignment sale, scouting out a craft fair, enjoying a night out for a friend's birthday and finally...the big day on Sunday.</div>
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Sunday, my hubby, became a deacon in our church. And while that means he will continue being the servant he is, it also means that he is recognized for his service and will be called on with these other men for needs in the church.</div>
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That also meant we had to go on stage...and lemmetellya, we don't go to a small church - so the nerves kicked in again with sitting in THE FRONT ROW. I'm just glad I didn't fall or kick over chairs.</div>
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After, we got to enjoy a delicious lunch provided by Zio's - yum!! And of course, take awkward family photos.</div>
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Erinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09784684887807681302noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2735739108679223277.post-76412428018463080272014-03-12T21:32:00.002-05:002014-03-12T21:32:38.936-05:00Weight Loss??A few weeks ago, my Facebook feed started blowing up with something called "the pink drink." It boasted to suppress appetite and increase weight loss and would burn fat and not muscle. I checked into this and the price was a LOT more than I wanted to pay. Plus, I'm always a little leery of "fads" that are going around, so I couldn't justify jumping on the band wagon. But I did remember a video and product that my hubby told me about awhile ago and I just blew it off. So, since this "pink drink" got me thinking, I recalled the video that he had sent me and sat down to watch.<br />
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I must admit, I'm not a huge fan of Dr. Oz, but I don't think he would promote a product without doing a lot of research. I mean, his reputation is on the line, right?! So, I watched his series on <a href="http://www.doctoroz.com/videos/garcinia-cambogia-newest-fastest-fat-buster-pt-1" target="_blank">Garcinia Cambogia</a> and decided to give it a go.<br />
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So far, I'm only a week or so in it. I feel like I'm not eating as much and trying to make better choices. I'm also craving water, when as before I would do nothing but want to drink a 44 oz. soda. I have yet to lose any weight (but I mean, I'm not reallllllly expecting to) but can tell I have extra energy and the thought of trying to go for a run doesn't exhaust me at first thought.<br />
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Anyway, who can really know what the reason is and if these all-natural pills are working. But hey, so far I have had zero bad side effects AND the price is much more reasonable...so I'm going to keep on keepin' on!!<br />
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Let me know if you've heard anything about it - good OR bad!Erinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09784684887807681302noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2735739108679223277.post-55224810601082490842014-03-03T08:29:00.001-06:002014-03-03T08:37:59.874-06:00Oscars 2014I normally never sit down to watch the entire length of these award shows. But I guess once you get sucked in, well, you get sucked in. Plus, with our entire city shut down again due to frigid temps and bad weather, what else was I going to do? <br />
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So here are my thoughts that I know you are all just DYING to read about the Oscars 2014.<br />
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I love Ellen DeGeneres' humor. Making fun of Jared Leto's hair, laughing at Jennifer Lawrence falling <i>again</i> (I love that she just blows it off.) Ordering pizza and seriously having it delivered. Breaking Twitter with the most retweets ever of her selfie pic with tons of amazing stars. The hubby and I literally laughed out loud at several of her jokes - when I normally sit stone faced while watching whoever it is try to make us laugh. Best host ever.<br />
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Cate Blanchett's acceptance speech. "hashtag suck it Julia!" Thankfully Julia Roberts was laughing hysterically at this so I'm hopeful that was an inside joke...that literally no one else got.<br />
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Let It Go. Apparently this was a huge ordeal for this song. I have yet to see Frozen, the movie, and I thought the song was...nice...but not quite living up to it's fame. I guess I'll need to borrow my sister's soundtrack so I can hear the edited version. And one day, I'll probably see the movie too and it will make me fall in love with it.<br />
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The acceptance speech for Let It Go was pretty awesome. Loved how they did it together, with the rhyming names, and dedicating the song to their sweet girls. To which my husband said, "are they married?" Well, I hope so!<br />
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<a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/bluecarreon/2014/03/02/the-2014-oscars-best-dressed-list/" target="_blank">Best dresse</a><u><a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/bluecarreon/2014/03/02/the-2014-oscars-best-dressed-list/" target="_blank">d</a>.</u> I thought Jada Pinkett Smith, Anna Kendrick and Kerry Washington had great taste!<br />
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The lesson I learn every year about the Oscars is that there are 9 movies that I have yet to see and it helps me figure out which ones I should actually waste my time on. I swore I would never see Gravity but for Pete's sake! How many awards did it get?<br />
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Alright, I'm off my Oscar soapbox now. It was a fun show and I'm glad I watched. <br />
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What did you think??Erinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09784684887807681302noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2735739108679223277.post-79076863211965000382014-02-24T07:00:00.000-06:002014-02-24T07:00:05.483-06:00Birthday fun!!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
I'm no longer 30. I'm that weird odd number of 31. For some reason, 31 just sounds much older than simple 30. I don't get confused anymore with college students and I'm wondering when I grew up! (Disclaimer: I haven't been confused for a college student for a looonnnng time...so I'm not sure why I said that!)</div>
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Regardless, I celebrated another birthday and it was a great weekend because of it! Friday night, Justin organized some friends of mine to meet us at <a href="http://shikiok.com/" target="_blank">Shiki</a>, a hibachi place here in OKC. He is always trying to surprise me and he never seems to do it. But, he put together a great group of friends to join us almost get our eyebrows burned off. We had a fun chef who gave us a great show and cooked us some amazing food.</div>
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After, we didn't know what to do so we went to listen to some Souled Out at the <a href="http://www.ucojazzlab.com/" target="_blank">UCO Jazz Lab</a>. I have been here only one time before and that was listening to <a href="http://mattstansberry.com/" target="_blank">Matt Stansberry</a>. Wasn't sure what to expect except there were a bunch of older people there shaking their groove thang. It was hysterical to watch them. We enjoyed the music for sure and might have even danced a little ourselves!</div>
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So that was Friday night. My cousin came to watch the kids and it was great to have them in bed asleep when we got back!! Saturday we were going to hang out with my family that night, but my mom was super sick so we changed our plans a wee bit. <br />
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We were going to go to <a href="http://cafe7okc.com/" target="_blank">Cafe 7</a> since that sounded delicious but Haylie preferred Chick-fil-a. And who am I to tell my kiddo no?? She just "wanted some chicken", so off we went to CFA.<br />
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After lunch I decided to get an impromptu haircut (3ish inches off) and after we got home, the kids took a nap and I went off with Maria for some lazy shopping! It's been ages since I went to any store just to browse, so that's what we did! And dreamed we had lots of money to spend on things.</div>
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After a dinner cooked by the hubby, we topped off the day by going to <a href="http://www.pinkitzel.com/" target="_blank">Pinkitzel</a> at bedtime to sugar ourselves up! We got to try four cupcakes and they were each delicious!!<br />
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It was so yummy and what a fun day it was! BTW, this is the first picture of H that I think really looks like my side of the family! It must be the hair. </div>
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But is that even possible? With everything revolving around it so much? People don't carry planners to make sure they stay organized, I rarely see a physical Bible at church anymore and most people don't call anymore - the main way to communicate is to text. People depend on their phones. "There's an App for that!"<br />
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Let me know how you deal with your technology overload. Because I'm looking for ways to simplify and reduce my dependency on devices!Erinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09784684887807681302noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2735739108679223277.post-8744970295639494162014-02-20T20:41:00.000-06:002014-02-20T20:41:00.884-06:00Princess Tea<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
This is Haylie's second year to go to the <a href="http://www.jecornell.blogspot.com/2013/02/princess-tea.html" target="_blank">Princess Tea</a>. She ab-so-lutely loves going to this and I think it is such a fun experience to go on a dress-up date with your dad!! A few weeks before my sister and I took the two girls shopping for their "fancy" dresses and we had visions of what it will be like with those two and prom dress shopping.</div>
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I wanted to see Haylie's hair so I told her to do "something" and this is what she came up with. You can't tell but I spent quite a while trying to put ringlet curls in her hair. It looked super cute!</div>
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Next year is Haylie's last year for the Princess Tea. How is that possible already?!</div>
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Valentine's Day. The time when getting creative is all over blogs and lots of mommy's are discussing what "we're" going to do for our kids. This year I wanted to be cheap...but that also meant more time-consuming. I was half-way wishing I went the easy route when nothing seemed to be going right in the craft department, but we pushed through and ended up loving our valentine's.<br />
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For Jace's, I thought I would use the rest of a huge bag of Dum-Dums I got awhile back. I saw a cute idea on a mom blog (which I can't remember which one right now, ugh!), so I thought I would try to recreate it!<br />
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I took a picture of J holding his hand out in a little fist. Added some hearts in <a href="http://www.picmonkey.com/">PicMonkey.com</a> and a little tag that said Happy Valentine's Day. I wish I would have also put Love, Jace, but that detail slipped my mind and I had to hand write. Could be worse. :)<br />
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I could not be more in love with these Valentine's. They turned out hysterically beautiful.</div>
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For Haylie, I got a good idea on this <a href="http://citymomsblog.com/oklahomacity/will-you-be-my-valentine-free-printables/" target="_blank">FANTASTIC blog</a>. Anna created print-ables, but I just wanted to have a tag instead of a bag topper, so I recreated a tag off of her creative ideas. For this I used <a href="http://www.canva.com/">Canva.com</a>.</div>
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So we made our playdough from her post, divided it into 18 pieces for her friends at school, created a tag and tied it on.<br /></div>
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And I forgot to type Love, Haylie on this one too, so she got the fun project of writing it on the back!<br /></div>
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For our Valentine's Day party on actual V-day, we made heart cookies! Chocolate + peanut butter = best Vday ever. So, I let Haylie stay up a little bit late to help me make these for our friends the night before.</div>
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And just for fun, here is a pic of our Valentine's from Daddy! Flowers for me, one rose for Haylie and cookies for all of us! He sure does love us :)</div>
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The weekend following my dad's surprise party was Jace's 2nd birthday!! I was pretty worn out but was determined to make this special for my little boy. We, of course, had a Thomas the Train party for my train-loving boy. {I'm just thankful he has fallen in love with the same thing as Haylie...it's been a $ saver for sure :oP}</div>
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I was skeptical the weekend of his birthday because he was acting like a Terrible Two. Tantrums, not sleeping well, crying for no reason...it was not fun thinking about this party. But, I still was able to whip up his cake with him crying at my feet the majority of the time. Thankful for Amazon Prime who shipped this cake decor set in two days. Whew, saved my butt there!</div>
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I decided to go ahead and do an early lunch party with PB&J's, chicken salad, fruits and veggies to go with the cake. Thomas led the "train" of food.<br />
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Grandma and Papa sent these headlamps and all the parents at the party were asking where we got them. All I knew to say was, "Missouri." Ha!</div>
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Remember his attitude issues? Yes, first part of his party he was throwing a tantrum because....well, we just don't know why.</div>
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Haylie and Liesel were cuddled up watching the opening of gifts.</div>
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Sunday was his actual birthday so we got him a few more Thomas gifts. Man, he better like Thomas as long as H does! We need our money's worth out of all this - ha!</div>
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We have been in extreme party mode over here. Right after we celebrated the holidays, we jumped head first into planning a surprise {joint} birthday party for my dad! He and his college bud Daryl turned 60 in the same month so the wives and children got together to plan a nice shin-dig.<br /><br />A lot of planning went into this - lots of secret text messages, phone calls, emails and meetings. Thankfully, as we found out at the party, neither birthday boy literally had no clue and that was the best part!<br /></div>
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So the big day finally was here! We met up at our church and got hustling on the decor.<br /><br />We had some great helpers get excited with the photo booth props. They really thought we just brought all that for them to play with.</div>
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The guys were each told a different story to get them to our church. Since neither of them are members there, we had to get creative. Daryl was told he was coming to a wedding reception for some long time members. My dad was told that they needed to come get my kids so Justin and I could attend an event that night after we were done setting it up. Both stories worked like a charm and when they "miraculously" met up in the parking lot, they were discussing why they were there!<br /><br />
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We of course had to get pictures of the crazy roommates from back in the OC {Oklahoma Christian} days...</div>
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Needless to say, it was a huge success of a party where we had friends from near and far come and celebrate! Happy birthday, Dad!Erinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09784684887807681302noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2735739108679223277.post-72636615957250276132014-01-17T12:00:00.000-06:002014-01-17T12:00:05.931-06:00Checking In...We are only a few weeks into January, but I feel a life time has happened since New Year's Day! How is that possible? Well, we've been quite busy and I thought I'd share some things we are doing.<br />
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<b>Justin</b> - up to something, we all know! He is researching his next purchase for another rental property. Yes, we can't seem to get enough of being landlords and want to find another jewel in OKC. This has been his focus since before the holidays and I think we have finally found *the one*. Not to be confused with the property that was barely more than a shack with three cats living (and apparently peeing) in it. That was a no-go.<br />
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<b>Me</b> - <a href="http://www.okcmomsblog.com/" target="_blank">The blog</a>. We've had an OKCMB playdate, contributor meeting, business meetings with local businesses, and the beginning workings of an event that I can't wait to share!!! I've also been Pinterest recipe trying, cleaning, re-organizing and playing with my babes. I really should hire a maid to actually clean my house once in awhile...but that's not likely to happen any time soon.<br />
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<b>Haylie</b> - She is really into practicing her letters, singing the Days of the Week (complete with tongue clicks), watching movies, being sassy, acting like a mother-hen to her brother, picking out her own outfits (please tell me you don't think I'M picking those out...), reading and praying, bouncing off the walls, loves to make phone calls on my phone, spelling words/reading, building blocks, being a big helper, and trying to sound like an adult while talking...all while chewing gum.<br />
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<b>Jace</b> - This kid is getting bigger every day! And for good reason - he will be two in less than two weeks!! Wasn't he just born?? I'm in the beginning stages of planning a Thomas party because...well...he LOVES that train almost more than Haylie does. We started him young but at least we don't have to buy anything since we have almost every Thomas thing made. He also loves our cat, "BOO-ing" at any and everyone (you know you've made it into his good graces when he BOO's at you), wants to "GO!" every morning (he is so disappointed when we have a day at home), is obsessed with having fans, lights, humidifiers and radios on but must have doors, drawers, cabinets and windows SHUT properly at all times. He likes to go to school - which is interesting because he is very clingy to me, but I attribute his love for school by having awesome teachers. When he doesn't want to be put down, he yanks his legs up so he is in a little ball so you literally can't put him down without rolling him on his head. He likes to eat ALL meals on my lap <u>or</u> running around the kitchen until he decides to take a bite - it depends on his mood really. He is starting to tell us "No" when we ask him to clean up, eat, or basically do anything and that usually ends in a spanking or two. When he cries, it's amazing how much liquid comes out of that kid. He can be soaking wet from tears and drool well within thirty seconds...but we love his spunk and cute personality that is shining through more and more each day.<br />
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<b>Now that you are caught up on us, let me know what you are up to!</b> Erinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09784684887807681302noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2735739108679223277.post-19842387753164108982014-01-16T22:18:00.003-06:002014-01-16T22:18:42.087-06:00Interview with Haylie<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I absolutely LOVE this stage with my 4 year old. Yes, she is spunky, sassy and a great "talk-backer", but she also says the most random stuff and is very sweet to her little bro. The innocence is still there and conversations with her make my heart full. I want to chronicle her sweet spirit so I asked her some questions the other day (found online from another blogger but eek! I can't find their site to link to) to see what her answers were. Here they are!<br />
<br /><b>What is your name?</b> H-A-Y-L-I-E (thanks for spelling it out for me)<br /><b>When were you born?</b> I don't know.<br />
<b>How old are you?</b> Four.<br />
<b>Who is your mommy?</b> You.<br />
<b>What does Mommy do?</b> Well, you sure don't clean up. (WHAT!!!)<br />
<b>Who is your daddy?</b> Right there (pointing to him)<br />
<b>What does he do?</b> He goes to Chesapeake.<br />
<b>What is your favorite color?</b> Pink and PURPLE!<br />
<b>What do you want to be when you grow up?</b> An engine!<br />
<b>What is your favorite food?</b> Cantaloupe<br />
<b>What food do you not like?</b> Green beans (which is false, but I think she panicked. It's definitely potatoes.)<br />
<b>What is your favorite animal?</b> A pig.<br />
<b>Where do you want to live when you grow up?</b> I don't know. Can you think about it for me?<br />
<b>What does your Daddy say?</b> Good night, I love you.<br />
<b>What does your Mommy say?</b> Good night, I love you.<br />
<b>What is your favorite song?</b> Jesus Loves Me<br />
<b>What's your favorite movie?</b> Monster's Inc.<br />
<b>What is your favorite flavor of ice cream?</b> Vanilla<br />
<b>Where is your favorite place to eat?</b> Braum's<br />
<b>Who is your favorite person?</b> Jace (insert tear here)<br />
<b>Who is your best friend?</b> Liesel<br />
<b>What is your favorite book?</b> <a href="http://www.bookworm.com/p/jesus-calling-bible-storybook-769348?site=CA&utm_source=Google&utm_medium=cpc_bw&utm_term=FPS-151426&utm_campaign=GoogleAW&CAWELAID=1698514664&utm_content=pla&adtype=pla&cagpspn=pla" target="_blank">Jesus Calling</a> (this is a big recommendation from me! Get this for your kids!)<br />
<b>Who is your brother?</b> Jace<br />
<b>Where did he come from?</b> Your belly.<br />
<b>What is your favorite thing to do?</b> Play blocks.<br />
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Well, some of these answers are totally off the wall for her and some answers are in the moment. Such as favorite movie - that changes every 5 seconds. And favorite food? I'm pretty sure cantaloupe isn't even a top 5. Oh well, I love seeing her answers and will hope to ask her these questions as she grows up.<br />
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I started to ask Jace these same ones and his answer every.single.time? "Shoon." Followed by giggles. Silly boy!<br />
<br />Erinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09784684887807681302noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2735739108679223277.post-49664041585909888122014-01-01T12:00:00.000-06:002014-01-01T12:00:01.323-06:00New Year Resolutions<b><span style="color: #cc0000;">Happy New Year!!</span></b> I am so excited about what 2014 could bring. The excitement of the fresh start, the goals that are set and just not knowing what's going to happen. Although I don't like to make goals for myself, since I tend to never follow through, I wanted to make some goals for myself and my kids to see if we can make it happen.<br />
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1. Be more active. I'm not going to say "lose weight" or anything cliche like people tend to do. While I did have my husband move our treadmill in our bedroom in hopes of motivating me, I want to simply be more active and healthy. Maybe run a few more 5Ks, but to overall stay in my size of clothing or go down one. <br />
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2. Work hard on OKC Moms Blog! We just started out in November so we are just beginning. Hopefully 2014 brings lots of fun events and plans our way.<br />
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3. Pray more. Enough said.<br />
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4. Branch out. There are lots of places I'm learning about through OKCMB and I want to go experience them. Instead of sticking within my 4 mile radius, I want to explore (with my kids) and do more fun things on a day to day basis. <br />
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Haylie -<br />
1. Work on that haircut. Hair takes time, yes. But I'm ready for it not to be at the Dora the Explorer stage. The bangs are apparently staying around for awhile, but hopefully the other parts that were in a mullet cut will grow super fast.<br />
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2. Start Pre-K! This isn't a goal as it is more of a reality, but my little girl is growing up and I am excited for her to try new things!<br />
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3. Ride a bike with no training wheels. This girlie LOVES to ride her bike...the one she has now she calls a "wobbly bike" with her training wheels, so we will work on that come spring.<br />
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4. Read more. She is getting really good with Stage 1 books, so we want to encourage harder stuff!<br />
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1. This is a doozy - get rid of the paci!!! He is rarely without one these days and loves to shove his thumbs in them. This might be a difficult stage but it needs to happen (hey, I didn't say soon, we have a whole year!)<br />
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2. Also when the time is right, transition to a toddler bed. I'm not trying to rush this considering what happened <a href="http://www.jecornell.blogspot.com/2013/11/big-boy-time.html" target="_blank">last time we tried</a>...so if he seems ready, this might be a good year.<br />
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3. Turn 2! This is also a reality instead of a goal, but one I am really looking forward to.Erinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09784684887807681302noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2735739108679223277.post-51820309136281246872013-12-31T14:30:00.000-06:002013-12-31T14:30:11.933-06:00Christmas Keeps Coming<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Does anyone see the adorable boy with a cute smile in this picture??? It's so rare to catch it that I HAVE to point it out.</div>
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To re-cap, Haylie got Hello Kitty underwear in her stocking and she thought she was in Heaven.</div>
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*Parent fail.* Forgot to get Jace's present out and wrapped before we started Christmas...so we distracted him for a minute, wrapped his blankie's around it...but he was a little distraught at our choice of wrapping paper. He liked his gift though!!</div>
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H got a Thomas Pillow Pet. She almost peed her pants with excitement.</div>
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And just because this is the CUTEST smile ever...</div>
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I scored major with Christmas this year. Our room is a freezing cold shell in the winter so I wanted Santa to bring me a heated mattress pad. Bam! Must have been good this year because that's what I got!</div>
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Justin was excited about his gifts too...you just can't tell.</div>
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We left the next day for Missouri to spend some time with Justin's family. Christmas morning rolled around and we had to get some fun pictures of the cousins.</div>
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I absolutely love this picture. This Batman is the only reason I went out on Black Friday (well, Thursday.) My nephew is super into Batman and I knew he just had to have this 31" action figure! I *think* he likes it...although when we got to MO, I heard he was more into Skylanders. Welp, hopefully the Batman craze hangs around a little while longer...ha!</div>
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Christmas 2013 was a success!</div>
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Christmas has come and gone, but I'm still sorting through holiday photos. We had a whole bunch of Christmas fun with my family, our small family of four, and then the Cornell side in MO. We are on holiday overload, but we had fun while doing it.</div>
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Our first Christmas was with my side of the family.</div>
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Merry Christmas #1!</div>
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OKC has TONS of things to do in December. One of the fun things is one of the companies here, Devon, puts on Saturdays with Santa. Since we had a free Saturday last week, we took advantage of it and went downtown! It was FREEZING and every single family in OKC had the same idea, but we still had a great time.</div>
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They had Dasher and Dancer (or Prancer or one of the others), which were fun to see. I might have said "Reindeer are real?" I guess I knew they were real, I just had a brain fart (or at least that's what I'm telling myself.)</div>
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While torturing ourselves with the unbelievable cold, we made the kids take a group shot!</div>
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Back inside, we went to the different stations to meet Mrs. Claus. Jace didn't really want to sit on her lap, but would give her a high five.</div>
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Jace and Mattie are so cute together. Holding hands!</div>
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This is my absolute favorite picture. Can you tell her excitement at these costumed characters?</div>
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We drew pictures and "wrote" letters to Santa.</div>
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And made Santa beards!</div>
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And the most fun of the day was, of course, the little "Polar Express" that was a 2 minute drive around Devon's courtyard. Haylie was NOT about to leave without riding this so we stood out in the freezing cold to wait our turn.</div>
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She got a little cold and only wanted Mr. Matt to hold her...while he was holding Ella.</div>
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Finally it was our turn on the train! We didn't get to ride in the yellow one like H requested, but we settled with blue.</div>
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We would have waited to see Santa there, but it was a 4 hour wait. We went to Bass Pro and it was a 4 hour wait there too! Deciding to chance Northpark Mall, we went and saw Santa in 20 minutes. That's the kind of wait I'll take, thank you very much! We had to wait on Santa to finish his lunch and ice cream...</div>
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Thanks Santa for the yummy candy!</div>
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Most people, it seems, decorate for Christmas right after Thanksgiving. Since we have an early December birthday (H), I've decided to not decorate until after her birthday. Her party was later than usual with Thanksgiving falling weird, so it was in the double digits of December before we busted out the decor.</div>
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Both kids were very helpful in setting up the tree...</div>
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and wanted to add color lights on top of the white lights of our pre-lit tree.</div>
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I made both kids pose with their "baby" ornaments just for fun...(we had to hang J's on...he didn't want to do any posing)</div>
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Both from Grandma and Papa. The shoe for her very first Christmas and Thomas for this year!</div>
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Haylie was pretty into helping this year for the first time ever, but Jace could care less after about 5 minutes. He got into the dance party though!!</div>
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And then everyone fell asleep. JK. They all wanted to lay under the tree...so we let them.</div>
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Our halls are decked...and just in time!</div>
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The joys of having cabinets that are easy to clean out and play in. This is where I find my kids 75% of the day. If you come over and play Hide and Seek...I'll give you one guess as to where they are hiding.</div>
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I bet you'll never find them!</div>
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We've been having lots of snow days lately, but this is when it first started to fall. My kids were so excited about it!! I was surprised because H is like me and doesn't care much for getting cold. But we got out all the warm clothing we could find and out they went.</div>
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We had a treat later that day when Eli and Evie came over! Unfortunately, my BIL got stuck in the snow & ice so my sister had to go rescue him. We got to spend time though with the kids, which H LOVED!</div>
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The next day, we got to have a snow day with Daddy!</div>
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I love having the snow around...I'm just not a fan of the ice - or the whole city practically shutting down! It does make for some extra family time though, for which I'm always a fan of.</div>
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