It’s so late and I’m so tired, but this very fine Friday? This happened! Kirsten came home for our niece’s wedding tomorrow. The child in the pink pants slept over so she could have a girl’s night with her aunties. Aunts are so darn fun. It was a lovely evening and the child is asleep […]
Happy Birthday, Joe! Thank you for being such a great son-in-law, uncle, brother-in-law, dad, and husband. This whole family loves you very much. We’ve had a lot of fun these last thirteen years or so. Love always, Jay and Val and Everybody
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Here we have two aunts entertaining an unruly toddler: My grandpa’s tractor in the destroyed hoop shed: Beginning construction on a new hoop shed: Julia, in a very fine school jacket of Kirsten’s from back in the day: Frog hunting: The little girls and the mama: They brought this pipe from the field to the
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It’s already starting to happen–fall colors starting. She was left here to get babysat for a couple hours. She found this container of rice Julia was using to dry her cell phone after it FELL IN THE LAKE on Saturday. Good LOR-ed. Julia jumped right in the lake to save it, but why was it
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It was a gorgeous day, breezy and soft, 80 degrees of perfection. Birds The old 1936 zoo building where they had animals in small cages when I was a child. The hyenas looked pitiful. That’s going too far. They don’t even have hyenas now. And the old tortoises we used to be able to sit
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We took this little child on a boat ride for fun, and partly to get her out of Heidi’s hair while she was packing. She likes boat rides. The other child came along and we would have taken her alone, but she wanted her dad along too. Cool. What I did not expect was the
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Was spent at the lake in the rain, worked hard to keep this baby under control. Not. This is the baby who runs us around. She’s helping with dishes here. After a little while she tried to drink the dishwater, which Grandpa did not allow. James made it up to the lake, which was a
Some girls came today, along with Dan’s kids, to spend time today. The house was a wreck. We didn’t care. He announced he was sick, and Dan said it was too much Little Debbie. Except he hadn’t eaten any. Kari said you might get diabetes from too much Little Debbie, but not a fever.
This is a tug of war that happened on the patio this morning. She really thinks her tiny baby teeth and little self can win over a hundred pound puppy who has giant spitty jaws? At some point, she got mad and bit the dog. Yes. She bit the dog on her front leg. (Elin
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Kindergarten graduation above (p.j. with her teacher and us, with Julia and with my parents,) and graduation for t.c. from Elementary to Middle School below: Oh my goodness. Graduation from into MIDDLE SCHOOL?? How did this happen? One from the day you were born: What a great week. Love, Grandma, aka MOM, aka VAL
