happy 8th birthday
Happy Birthday, my dear! You make everything better and more fun. This whole family is better with you in it. Happy Birthday and love for always, Grandma and Grandpa and Everybody
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Happy Birthday, my dear! You make everything better and more fun. This whole family is better with you in it. Happy Birthday and love for always, Grandma and Grandpa and Everybody
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The dog thinks she’s a person Ahh, this neighbor kid is one of the family, for sure. Gifts! Cake! What a great party. All the long years we could not be together for occasions like this seems kind of long ago now, but we haven’t forgotten it–will never take this for granted again, long afternoon
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The science event was last week, so this morning since it was still set up during church, headed over to see the display. There were a lot of projects, and they were all interesting and cool. They described their ideas, the process, the data, the conclusions on each one. Really nice. The gloves were a
The warnings went on all week about it. Schools closed, announcing on early in the week about the dread heading for us. Bah. Perfectly ordinary snowfall. I mean, it was fine they cancelled everything and prepared. It sure made those couple days much easier to manage overall, but hardly the storm of the century they
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All the kids were off school for Presidents Day so Heidi gathered them up and they hung out here. They were a little bored, set up a game in the kitchen where they pretended they were running a drive through, and they passed out diet coke and chow mein noodles and Pringles chips. Whatever passes
Pictures loaded from the end to the beginning. This is the end, first kid asleep, magic bathrobe at work. We made beds on the couch and on the floor. Something weird is happening with the bananas, and a lot of weird things went on with that toilet game on the kitchen table. I heard
She’s had this little lump on her eyelid for about a year and it had to finally come off. Twelve hundred dollars. I teased that I could do it with a nail clipper, but that’s not true. Anyway. She’s doing well. Onward Love, Val
What a great birthday!! Beautiful child Still the same I hope this is the best year yet. Lucky us, having you. Happy Birthday, with love for always, Love Grandma and Grandpa and Everybody
Julia got tired of these guinea pigs in her room for a number of reasons. The hay and pine have their own little farm odor. They take up a lot of room. And mice were upstairs. We’ve never really had mice upstairs before, but guinea pig food and bedding are all very dear to mice,
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He’s a bright spot on some cold and stressful weeks. She hung out with us, fun to have. He likes her. He’s so funny, standing on those little tiny legs. He takes some lovely naps. Here he’s all fired up showing us his skills at rolling over. And her, FOMO. Would love to come out