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Can anyone resist puppies?

Betty and her friend recently bred a litter of four Parti Yorkies (its a Yorkshire Terrier, but has white, brown and black hair instead of grey/blue, brown and black). They are one week old today and while Betty was babysitting, we went over to see the puppies. I can honestly say I don’t think I…

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Jumping January

Today we had a lot of fun trying out McKinley’s new trampoline that “santa” brought. It was great – but the highlight of the afternoon was Connor’s static hair – for some reason, no one else seemed to have this problem, whenever Connor was on the trampoline, his hair would stand on end. We all…

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My little driver

Have I said this already? Connor is fascinated with cars. If so, I can’t say it enough. JJ calls our vehicles Connor’s very expensive playpen. It typically goes like this, Connor grunts and motions for the car, I cave and let him in and he climbs into the driver seat, and reaches to pull the…

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Christmas 2012 – the rehash!

What a blast we had this year for Christmas. It was such a fun year with the kiddos. Cailee really started to understand this whole Christmas thing and Connor is just into everything, so they kept us on our toes. If you can’t tell by the delay of this post, we were quite busy and…

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2012 Gingerbread house

Last year I had a lot of apprehension about making the gingerbread house – I didn’t expect the kit to actually work as well as the box advertised – but I was pleasantly surprised. The house proved to be pretty much indestructable – even at the hands of a 3 year old. So this year,…

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How I’ve spent my vacation

So far… Playing 🙂 It’s been nice to enjoy some down time over the last few days. I’ve finished my shopping (well mostly), taken Cailee for a Christmas manicure (complete with sparkly snowflakes on her fingernails), baked some cookies, decorated a gingerbread house (well, two actually, but that’s another story) and spent plenty of time…

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We hit the candy mother-load

We decided to check out the Bahama Christmas parade this past weekend. Cailee loves parades and it turned out to be a lot of fun. It was exactly what I expected of a small town (that’s not an understatement, the town is comprised of two gun shops) Christmas parade. We parked right downtown on the…

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