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Our Christmas Tree

I suppose I am a little overdue in posting a picture of the decorated tree – but I was hoping to get a kid or two to pose in front of it. Easier said than done. Here is what I finally got. Yes, that’s the best I could get of Connor on this particular day….

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Cailee’s Christmas Program

Today, there was such a senseless shooting tragedy in the US taking the lives of 20 young kids. I think when you are a parent or especially close to a child, you immediately personalize any such event. It makes it that much more real. I’m not sure how I would cope, and pray I never…

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Our Annual Christmas Tree Trip

So this weekend marked our 11th annual trip to the snowy, winter-esque mountains to get our Christmas tree. Ok, so it wasn’t snowy or winter-esque at all, but that really didn’t matter. In fact, we often remember our trips by the uniqueness of the weather – aka “remember that year it was really frigid and…

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More lukewarm fall days, but who’s complaining

We are still enjoying our Fall days that feel more like Spring on the cusp of Summer then a prelude to Winter. In fact we are heading to the moutains this weekend for our Christmas tree and the forecast calls for high 60s – so much for getting into that wintery mode for the holidays….

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Pictures with Santa – Part 2

I’m a little delayed in posting these pictures – but this tells the rest of the story because of course I had my camera with me. You can at least see that the kids were chipper, happy every other moment of the evening. It was just the idea of meeting Santa that apparently spooked them…

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Our 2012 Photo Book

Despite the amount of time it takes me to do this each year, I have a lot of fun combing through my pictures to build these books. Now narrowing it down from 5000 pictures to probably 50 is always a challenge and I know I am leaving so many fun times out – but it…

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