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happy birthday to our "one-derboy"<br />
our love bug<br />
our baby b.<br />
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we love him so much it kind of hurts. : )<br />
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it's me you guys, i'm back.<br />
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there's this "thing" in the air called covid19 and none of us understand it<br />
or like it.<br />
we aren't supposed to leave our houses<br />
or see our grandbabies.<br />
we are supposed to wash our hands about 126 times a day and there's not a<br />
clorex wipe to be found in this whole dang city.<br />
i sewed 35 masks to donate and then ran out of elastic and started planting seeds.<br />
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people are teaching themselves to bake bread and make kombucha<br />
like never before.<br />
we don't know what to do with ourselves or how long we'll be<br />
in quarantine and we're all<br />
sick of cleaning drawers and having so much time to <i>think. </i><br />
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my phone takes such good<br />
pictures that that's about all i use if i'm just shooting for myself and not clients.<br />
then it's a whole lot of work to transfer the phone pics to<br />
my computer, so i rarely do it but here i am showing up with some pretty<br />
pictures to hopefully brighten your day. : )<br />
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one of the most beautiful flowers in God's creation.</div>
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yes from 3 weeks to a month!!!</div>
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having flowers in the house has proven to be as good for your health as a multi-<br />
vitamin. (*that's according to quite a bit of research on my part).<br />
green plants improve air quality and<br />
flowers improve your mood. it's a win-win.<br />
an actual necessity if you ask me.<br />
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i tried something my gram used to do to winter over her geraniums.<br />
in the fall you just dig them up, shake off the soil and put them in<br />
a paper grocery bag somewhere cool. (but not freezing).<br />
you do nothing. nothing. no light and no water all through the winter<br />
and then in early spring you pot them back up, water and set them<br />
in a sunny window and i am so excited to report<br />
that all but one of mine leafed back out!<br />
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don't you think i should wrap this up with a couple pictures of our precious<br />
grandson's baptism? the day he was baptised was the last day the country was<br />
allowed to run around like normal crazy people before we all got our<br />
quarantine orders to stay at home.<br />
that seems like a long time ago but i am trusting we'll see normal again before too<br />
much longer- and until then i'll be digging in the dirt with my gardening apron on,<br />
drinking ice tea and picking bouquets for my table and if you're close by hopefully<br />
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we have a precious new family member, a second little grandson, born to our daughter</div>
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i got to go stay with his big brother and we visited mom and </div>
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dad most of the days they were in the hospital.</div>
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mommy and daddy (and they him) and he was very curious about</div>
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all the bells and whistles in a hospital room. </div>
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he tried mom's breast pump out to make sure it was working</div>
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the first photos are in the hospital and then there are some</div>
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then the last few photos were baby B in a sleeper from</div>
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<span style="color: black;"> when he was 11 wks. old.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">he is changing so fast and has been the most perfect</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">he's cooing and smiling and we wish we could freeze this </span></div>
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precious<span style="color: black;"> stage of his life for a few months longer.</span></div>
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both sides of the family are so in love with these two little boys</div>
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and we feel so incredibly lucky to have them in our lives.</div>
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congratulations to our daughter and her hubbie. </div>
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here you are then, here's our beautiful grandson's beginning.</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">(for privacy reasons we don't publish names).</span></div>
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so eric and corinne got married in the dominican at the end</div>
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this is my brother todd and corinne (the bride) waiting patiently to board the plane.</div>
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corinne's mom (jolene) and dad (curtis) and sister lindsay also waiting.</div>
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and then there's brother cole… he didn't miss a chance to recharge.</div>
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well, here we are in another country...a first for lars and i.</div>
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*dreams resort, punta cana, dominican republic and it was worth all the lines and</div>
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yee haw!! where's my swimming suit???</div>
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lars, cole and eric, (the groom).</div>
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this is my sis-in-law (bonus sister) mary and i. she and todd made the trip so much more fun and i still can't believe how blessed we were that they joined us on this trip of a lifetime!</div>
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everybody loves mary. she is what i'd call steadfast.</div>
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that i don't think we ever would have, had we not vacationed together. that right there made a destination wedding so worth it and i'd recommend it to families whose kids are getting married!</div>
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this is curtis (the bride's dad). he liked to drift in and out of the circle and impart words of wisdom and he kept us all laughing. he also kept us on our toes by using big words that we had to look up the meaning of. ( e.g. "obsequious")</div>
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here are brother-in-law jeremy and sister lindsay with corinne </div>
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childhood friend kasey (on the right) flew from Colorado for the wedding- loved her.</div>
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eric's best friend sean (on left, who's from northern mn) and cole, off to do some snorkeling.</div>
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these beards look hot in the domincan sun but they are "manly men" who love their beards.</div>
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dale, jill, (friend from colorado) and mom jolene getting ready to kayak.</div>
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so here we stood all smiley and carefree …...when a huge rogue wave about the size of the titanic came from out of nowhere and tsunamied me!!!</div>
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you guys it knocked me over big time and holy toledo---i was injured!!!</div>
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i can't swim and eric scooped me up and set me back on my feet and i limped back to my lawn chair and tried to be brave, but i'd give about a million dollars for a live video because it doesn't look like this could have been that bad </div>
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but i sprained my wrist to the point where someone had to open my water bottles for me, and my knee?? well i must have torn something.</div>
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it's freaking april and it still hurts (and there might still be sand in my belly button.)</div>
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everyday on the plaza, the resort had a big cookout. it was a blast watching them cook in huge quantities like this while the crowd stood around, hungrily waiting to try it.</div>
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long, curly auburn hair and i think it took close to 5 hours to complete!!!</div>
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mary and i did bottle painting on the beach in the hot, caribbean sun to make these</div>
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the day before the wedding all the guys set off on a deep sea fishing excursion.</div>
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eric got the only fish they caught that day, this big old barracuda, and a very sunburned nose!</div>
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the sea was wicked while they were out there and cole got violently ill poor guy~</div>
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so glad i was safely back on shore, leisurely walking into town, buying souvenirs and watching rae get her hair braided!</div>
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dale and i and our boys raising a toast to eric and corinne~</div>
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corinne's family</div>
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a super fun surprise for Corinne was these two great friends from high school surprising her on her </div>
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wedding day! when they heard she was getting married in the Dominican they decided to go on a vacation there too and surprise her! they were at a neighboring resort and they had to spend several hours (and some cash) getting entrance to our resort to pull this off! how fun is that??</div>
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it really was such an incredibly great time...just ask any of us that were there!</div>
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15 of us jetted down there and spent a week together</div>
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it was an absolutely wonderful day (and week) celebrating these two. </div>
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*every day in a marriage isn't going to be magical, but if</div>
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it will be a good life.</div>
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love and blessings,</div>
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we arrived home late last night from our son's wedding</div>
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in the republica dominicana</div>
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(that's how the locals say it)</div>
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and today i'm just soaking it all in.</div>
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i have a ton of thoughts running through my head</div>
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about this amazing experience and i'm going to write some</div>
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these are some of the things i learned in the last week~ about myself, the </div>
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world and the people around me.</div>
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*i CAN drink water without lemon.</div>
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*I can even drink coffee, with enough cream and sugar in it.</div>
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"cafe' leche".</div>
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*more humidity makes my dry eyes feel better.</div>
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*I can totally get up early and stay up late for 6 days in a row.<br />
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*it feels reassuring to travel out of the country for the first time<br />
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*i felt safe being by myself in a foreign country at an all inclusive resort.<br />
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*dominicans are beautiful, happy people.</div>
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*it doesn't feel that weird to be so far away from home.</div>
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*it's been confirmed that i'm not a "foodie". chicken tenders anyone?</div>
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*i really can't swim, in fact i can't even stand in the ocean without getting hurt.</div>
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*documenting life with a camera is my passion.</div>
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*i'd like to learn more Spanish.</div>
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*i don't like it when my suitcase gets inspected.</div>
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(messed with, messed up, rifled through).</div>
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*you're never too old to wear a thong.</div>
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*it wasn't nearly as hot as i'd heard it was going to be.<br />
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*it is very damp/humid in the dominican.</div>
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*a dead cockroach on the floor of my room didn't scare me.<br />
<i>dead</i> is the key word.<br />
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*I don't like the feeling in my gut when someone says "do you see<br />
cole out there?" and I look out in the ocean, see a speck on the<br />
horizon on a paddle board and then it disappears.</div>
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*it's a blast vacationing with new people in a new place. there's so much to learn.</div>
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*you will miss important family members that aren't with you.</div>
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*it makes me very happy to see my boys and husband having </div>
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fun together.</div>
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*i am pretty content in a lawn chair by the ocean, my hubbie not so much.</div>
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(he likes to do<i style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"> all the things).</i></div>
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*i like the term "all inclusive", </div>
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yes, i'll try allll the desserts and then eat more shrimp.</div>
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*my son has wonderful new family members and a father-in-law who's hilarious.</div>
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*naked skin looks better when it's tan. #truth</div>
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*if you travel with a bunch of people you don't need as much reading material.</div>
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*bring more swim suits and less clothes.</div>
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*when you get back to MN you'll wish it was spring because who's </div>
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going to see your glorious tan under your stocking cap, turtle neck and </div>
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*having your brother and sister-in-law on a trip magnifies the fun.</div>
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*you'll never be sorry you took so many pictures.</div>
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*men bond over cigars. women do too.</div>
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wintery, Christmas themed things.</div>
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every year I decorate less and love it more.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">~HAPPY BIRTHDAY BABY~</span></div>
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our little love turned 1 on Sept. 27th.</div>
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what a baby learns from birth to 1 will always astonish me.</div>
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it started with him swaddled in his parents arms</div>
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and can we talk about these eyelashes?</div>
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CINCO DE MAYO</div>
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y'all</div>
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twenty one thousand,</div>
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nine hundred days.</div>
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birthday our family</div>
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like from today, will you take a couple?"</div>
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here is what i left in the collection.</div>
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*photo bomber in last pic is my grandson's daddy.<br />
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it feels especially meaningful to me this year</div>
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because my daughter is a mama now too.</div>
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cj is 7 months old and i take a lot of photos of him but on the day</div>
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i took these, he was 6 months.</div>
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i was at her house and she was at work,</div>
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"I realized when looking at your mother, you are looking at the purest form of love you'll ever know."<br />
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it's hard to believe that in the blink of an eye, this little love is now 7 months old.</div>
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he is the most curious child lars and i have ever seen.</div>
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i am humbled watching my daughter mother this sweet boy.<br />
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dollies... then she moved on to being an awesome<br />
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she has a fierce love for this baby of hers and it is clear~<br />
she was<i> born</i> to be a mother<br />
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happy 1st mother's day to our girl<br />
and to all of you who have also had the<br />
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cousins mike and barb had a st. patrick's day party on 3-17 and we were invited.</div>
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barb had fun decorating and was i so excited when i walked in to their dining room.</div>
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i had quite a bit of irish in me (that I didn't know about), so i was all about it.</div>
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i was pretty sure i wouldn't care for it, (i'm picky) but i did!</div>
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i actually loved it, it was really delicious!!!</div>
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barb made these yummy cupcakes laced with baileys irish cream.</div>
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do any of you watch the bachelor? this last season a girl that barb knows really well <i>won</i></div>
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it's always a real treat to get an invitation to their house. I can't remember when<br />
I've laughed so hard...we played games and talked about some of our favorite memories<br />
of growing up together, what a great evening~<br />
thanks you guys!</div>
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now on to our little grandson... look how he's grown!!!</div>
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he's 6 months old and as much as I've loved every single month of</div>
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his precious babyhood, every time we see him he just gets more fun.<br />
friends have told me this just continues, how great is that?<br />
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when he was at our house this week he had a fun surprise for us...</div>
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his first two little teeth are through.</div>
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yeah CJ!<br />
*his eyes are turning brown now too... something I was secretly hoping for. : )</div>
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we are so in love with this little boy</div>
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the next time i blog i will not talk about snow.</div>
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i promise.</div>
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i don't care if it's may and we still have a foot.</div>
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tomorrow is march 20th~</div>
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the official first day of spring </div>
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and guess whaaaaat?</div>
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i am not going to let it bum me out.</div>
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when you get to mid march, even if you do live in </div>
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cold, frozen Minnesota, you know it's not going to last.</div>
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spring is on the horizon. you can tell by the water </div>
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running down the street and the shrinking piles of snow.</div>
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averaging 40 degrees by midday.</div>
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so that's it. i'm calling an official wrap to another winter.</div>
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i think winter is very beautiful too.</div>
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i make myself happy in the cold winter months. </div>
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a lot of snow though... it just makes everything bright and prettier.</div>
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ice writing on the front door.</div>
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purple cone flower seed heads in the garden</div>
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but the birds still get some of the seed i put out. : )</div>
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until it grows out a little, i'm tucking it behind my ears and trying not to gobble.</div>
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we also see coyotes, deer, pheasants, fox, rabbits, all kinds of birds,</div>
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<span style="color: #e06666; font-size: large;">so here's a shout out to spring,</span><br />
<span style="color: #e06666; font-size: large;"> we're ready for you!</span><br />
*and if that means I have to shave my legs on a regular basis<br />
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like chip gaines says,<span style="color: #e06666;"> "be sweet"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"> </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large;"> eric is engaged!!!!</span></div>
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eric is 37 you guys. </div>
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he was a self professed "bachelor for life".</div>
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the cards for him, so it was easier to say he was never getting married and</div>
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all he really wanted was a<i> nice big garage</i> for all his stuff and a little house</div>
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they had seen each other about 4 times already.</div>
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this girl who he couldn't even believe he was seeing. he said that after their first date,</div>
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some of her family hunts and fishes too.</div>
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<i>*news flash: paul bunyan, minnesota's most eligible bachelor proposes".</i></div>
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since my busy photography season wrapped up there just hasn't been a whole</div>
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i'm a<i> packrat.</i> </div>
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i grew up during the depression you know.</div>
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grandson~grandfather</div>
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the Christmas birthday boy loves to open his presents.</div>
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awww...this little boy is so loved by all of us~</div>
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our Christmas celebration ended with a pumpkin roll "birthday cake" that cole's sweetie picked out for him...singing happy birthday, raucous laughter and that was a wrap!</div>
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the following weekend we all drove north to the cabin to spend a long weekend </div>
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teasing each other, eating ridiculous amounts of really delicious food and </div>
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you guys~ the thermometer read<i><span style="color: #3d85c6;"> </span><span style="color: #0b5394;">37 below zero</span></i> at one point.</div>
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lars trims off the bottom of our Christmas tree here and there.</div>
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the family room fireplace got a splash of Christmas added to what was already there. (the pallet MN that cole made, antlers and the plaid thermos and bag). i can't find the larson's Christmas stockings for the life of me but did put up these simple ones i'd bought for our new family members.<br />
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our youngest, cole was born on Christmas day 29 years ago.<br />
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he was the best Christmas present EvEr!<br />
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this joy sign is many years old now but you know how you have favorite things that you</div>
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just hang on to? i made each individual letter out of real botanical items.</div>
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the J is apple peeling.</div>
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the Y is birch bark.</div>
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i framed it in a shadowbox frame and bring it out every winter.</div>
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she was raised by a mother from the south</div>
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and she has an elegance about her that she inherited from her southern mother.</div>
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when you're with her you are treated to the kind of hospitality and generosity of spirit </div>
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that i just don't think those of us born and raised in the frigid north country can quite pull off.</div>
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we can't help it, it's just not in our half frozen DNA. : )</div>
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*think mint julips, wide brimmed hats, confederate homes, wide front porches</div>
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and collard greens.<br />
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tator-tot hot dish, jello, ice fishing and moon boots.<br />
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today i'm talking about my friend leslie. we've been friends so long now that</div>
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i wish i could bring y'all (that's southern talk) with me sometime so<br />
you could experience what it's like to stay with a friend who treats you like royalty,<br />
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she and her hubbie's home is always changing and always endlessly interesting.<br />
it takes me forever to see every little detail (and i do so love the details) and of course<br />
i've got questions and i have to take pictures.<br />
these two are retired and they love to travel around the usa, stopping in<br />
every little mom and pop antique shop and church basement sale so<br />
you just never know what new treasures they'll have to show me!<br />
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here is the tour i took so I could share their delightful home with you.<br />
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both sides of the front entry hall are lined with treasured family photos and i</div>
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(i'm honored that some of mine are even included.)</div>
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this house was leslie's parents home. it's where leslie and her two sisters grew up.</div>
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leslie introduced me to this wonderful tradition many years ago and now it's a</div>
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*it's like mini Christmas's throughout the year. : ))</div>
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hohoho</div>
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my little brother does these european mounts with deer and leslie wanted</div>
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leslie made this beauty!</div>
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another vase? why yes! thank you~</div>
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various evergreens, sliced oranges, nuts, pinecones and cinnamon sticks.</div>
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now don't you feel like you've had a tour of a house in the south?</div>
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leslie's decorating style is very much like her mothers and</div>
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we all just feel cocooned here in this beautiful space.</div>
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leslie has lived in 6 different homes in the 35 years we've been</div>
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friends and no matter which of those homes she's lived in,</div>
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some teeny and some grand, the feeling is always the same.</div>
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<i>come on in, all are welcome here.</i></div>
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it's almost Christmas now and i may or may not be back but</div>
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blessings~ many, many blessings to you and your family.</div>
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every year at about this time I start to think about my grandmother</div>
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irene isabelle (hardwick) baldwin.</div>
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she was born on November 25th, so celebrating her birthday at </div>
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thanksgiving was special.<br />
like her.</div>
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I've written about her before, but i'm going to go back a bit further</div>
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and tell you more about her life. (*these memories are my own... </div>
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if my family is reading this and has corrections please leave them in the comments section). : )</div>
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irene was born in 1913, the 5th of the 6 children born</div>
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to dora (cordeman) hardwick and james oliver hardwick.</div>
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dora and james had 5 daughters and one son.</div>
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edith</div>
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leona</div>
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evelyn</div>
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irene</div>
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my great grandmother dora died of pneumonia quite young leaving her husband,</div>
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a farmer in central minnesota, with no one to help with his children.</div>
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this led my great grandfather to marry not one,</div>
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but 2 mail order brides from the southern part of the </div>
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united states.</div>
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i used to love when my gram told my sister and i stories about her childhood.</div>
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some of the things I remember are that the children were expected to work hard and their father</div>
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was a stern disciplinarian. there was NO talking allowed at the</div>
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dinner table, he believed children were to be seen and not heard. </div>
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she told us that their life was happy and playful when her mother was alive, but</div>
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all that changed with the 2 stepmothers. they weren't nice to the children and</div>
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i'm guessing they were probably overwhelmed by moving so far from their families<br />
and living in the frigid north country + having all those children to take care of.<br />
*both the mail order brides</div>
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ended up divorcing my g. grandpa and they got most of his money,<br />
leaving him quite poor at the end of his life.</div>
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my grandma met my grandpa when she was 17.</div>
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her sister was dating a guy with a brother. They invited my gram to go on a double date<br />
and the sisters ended up marrying those brothers!<br />
(gram told us once that my grampa was <i>"the catch of the county"</i>. )</div>
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eventually my grandparents found themselves expecting a baby and<br />
even though they were young, they were in love and had a baby on the way so they</div>
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married and started their life together.</div>
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they went on to have 6 more children, including a set of twins of which my</div>
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mother was one.</div>
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my grandpa was a farmer and they rented a big </div>
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two story farm house on the banks of a river.</div>
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can you imagine how our generation would feel if we had no running water<br />
or indoor bathrooms,<br />
if we had to raise most of our food and wash clothes with<br />
a ringer washing machine, with no dryer?</div>
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can you imagine how many potatoes my gram must have peeled to feed her </div>
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family of 9 all those years?</div>
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it seems like a hard life but when my gram told us stories of those years</div>
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she was never complaining. i always felt</div>
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like she loved her life. i remember her saying that her sisters, (who were her best</div>
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friends) would tell her that they felt soooo sorry for her with all those kids but</div>
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she <i>loved</i> having a big family.</div>
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in 1966 my grandparents lost one of their 30 year old twins (my mother) to a brain tumor.</div>
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that left me, my sister and two young brothers with no parents.</div>
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(my dad had deserted our family) and suddenly my grandparents had to decide</div>
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who was going to raise the 4 young children.</div>
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it turned out that they decided they would raise my sister (9) and i (7), and</div>
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one of my gram's nieces adopted my two little brothers who were</div>
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4 and 18 months.</div>
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although my mom had been very ill for a few years, her death was not expected.</div>
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my gram was 53 years old and her youngest son still lived at home and farmed with my</div>
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grandpa and now all of a sudden they had 2 more children to raise.</div>
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my grandparents were strict (down right scary at times-truth be told)</div>
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and they expected obedience from my sister and i, but they also provided the</div>
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structure and stability we surely needed after we'd lost our mother.<br />
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so here they were with 2 more girls. <br />
2 girls who weren't going to be any help in the field or milking cows.<br />
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2 more girls that were going to need acne cream and tampax,<br />
bras and braces,<br />
prom dresses and class rings.<br />
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they worked hard their whole lives and never had a lot of money.<br />
my grama ended up a widow living on nothing<br />
but her social security check.<br />
<i>all $200 and some dollars a month!</i><br />
she never talked about money or complained<br />
or ever appeared to want what anyone else had though.<br />
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my gram loved her simple life.<br />
she went to church and she gardened.<br />
she refinished a ton of furniture. she sewed and knit and made quilts. she fed the birds.<br />
she had a dog to keep her company-<br />
(she had no time for cats btw),<br />
she had a fun group of girlfriends and a great big family<br />
that loved and admired her.<br />
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she could whip up a meal to feed surprise company with nothing<br />
but a can of beans and a lemon.<br />
(i kid) but she really did continue to feed us all the most delicious meals,<br />
right up until she left us too soon, at the age of 73.<br />
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gram's life was certainly not without struggles and heartache, after all she lost her<br />
mother when she was young and a beloved daughter (and that was<br />
just the biggest hurdles they overcame.)<br />
she wasn't perfect-she was human- but she was one tough cookie who focused<br />
on her blessings.<br />
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gram said many times that she felt like she was already in heaven<br />
here on earth, because of the life she'd been given.<br />
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how absolutely wonderful is that?<br />
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it's thanksgiving week and like most of you i am just more consciously<br />
aware of what i am thankful for right now. i read an article in a magazine<br />
(magnolia journal) that really started to churn up memories of the life i had<br />
with my gram and gramps and all the subtle ways they taught us to appreciate<br />
the little things.<br />
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family is our greatest blessing.<br />
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if you have people to love, that love you back, you<br />
have what the whole world is longing for.<br />
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i have been blessed and hope you feel that way too.<br />
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happy thanksgiving dear ones,<br />
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xo, beth<br />
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our grandson is here!!!</div>
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one month ago today, little colton james was born.</div>
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my daughter is a momma!</div>
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our son-in-law is a daddy,</div>
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lars and i are grandparents</div>
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cole and eric are uncles -aka "funcles"!</div>
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the evening of sept. 25th Ad text me and said " mom, my water broke at home</div>
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and we're at the hospital"...</div>
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eeeeeeek! it was happening!</div>
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i went to bed all nervous, anxious, excited, happy, </div>
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full of anticipation and it was hard to sleep (but i did). haha</div>
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the next day we got a couple texts from the kids saying that </div>
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at about 7 p.m., one last text came that said she was</div>
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about half way there and that maybe baby would be born</div>
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around midnight.</div>
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so i stayed up till midnight, </div>
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and waiting for "the call".</div>
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i know it's not all about me, but hey this is my version of the birth story. ; )</div>
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i woke up a couple times during the night and checked my phone</div>
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turns out baby's beginning was rough and he needed extra care</div>
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for the first several days of his life.</div>
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a. ended up having a C-section and she and chris were both worn out and worried,</div>
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<i>freaking amazing!</i></div>
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can i just repeat that?</div>
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they were freaking amazing.</div>
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the grace, gratitude and strength they showed in the week they were</div>
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in the hospital, is something</div>
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i'll never forget.<br />
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(grampa tim and i may have cried more tears than c. and a. did).<br />
<i>hey we can't help it, we're extra emotional!</i></div>
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i'm not going to completely sugar coat things.</div>
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it obviously wasn't the sweet beginning they were expecting. <br />
the kids didn't get to hold their little love or really see his whole precious face <br />
until the 4th day when he got off a cooling pad and a bunch of the tubes came out.<br />
one by one though they came out and our little bubbie showed us how<br />
remarkable and resilient babies can be.</div>
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colton had an amazing team of compassionate nurses and doctors that</div>
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cared for him and got him over the hump and ready to go home and </div>
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we can't thank them enough. let's fast forward to day 6 when they were finally given the good<br />
news that they were being discharged.<br />
Woo Hoooooo~<br />
colton had met all criteria to go home!<br />
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a. did tell me that she said to the nurses,<br />
"you'll be by every 3 hours to check on us though right?"<br />
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things are going great now and mr. big has gained enough weight<br />
that momma says his little legs are getting some "chub" on them. : ))<br />
we're all pretty much in complete love and mom and dad<br />
text photos of him to the one who's not holding him (but wants to be)<br />
from the opposite ends of the couch.<br />
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so here we go- with no apologies <span style="color: #3d85c6;">whatsoever</span> this time-</div>
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here's a million photos of the beginning of our little colton's life!</div>
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*i was getting over a cold so i wasn't able to go in the NICU<br />
and see baby C. for a few days.<br />
thank God they all took photos for me and chris even went in the<br />
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she'd just had a major surgery, but man she was a trooper.</div>
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i never heard a single complaint from her about her recovery.</div>
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grampa meeting colton for the first time. </div>
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he looks big here, but he really wasn't.</div>
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6lb. 8 oz. of pure love.</div>
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i love this photo. on the left are grampa tim (in front) and lars.</div>
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on the right are uncle jake (in front) and the proud new daddy.</div>
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this is day 4 when i was finally able to go in the NICU.</div>
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a little jaundiced, and a whole lot precious.</div>
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we were moving mom from her own room to colton's room on the NICU floor here.</div>
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luckily she got to stay the extra days baby was hospitalized.</div>
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homeward bound.</div>
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so it is with the utmost joy that i'm sharing adria, chris and colton's story.</div>
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every day is better now with this little boy in our lives.</div>
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he is our wonder boy and we feel completely blessed.</div>
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all the prayers sent up for this little love. it comforted us</div>
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greatly and we love you.</div>
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you guys! there is a very special baby on it's way to us.</div>
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it's almost time now for my grand baby to be born and there have been lovely parties</div>
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thrown by lovely people to celebrate babies life and</div>
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help mommy and daddy gather the 1001 things</div>
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*I swear when I had my kids you needed:</div>
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some cloth diapers and a plastic diaper pail from pamida</div>
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6 sleepers</div>
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6 bottles in case you weren't nursing and a can of enfamil</div>
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a bottle brush</div>
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4 bibs</div>
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4 flannel receiving blankets</div>
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one heavier blanket</div>
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a bassinet or crib</div>
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done. ready for baby to come!</div>
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the list now a days fills a couple pages. there are these new straw things you</div>
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mats to dry your bottles on. there's this giraffe that if your kid doesn't</div>
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never get into preschool.</div>
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help you figure out. (the car seat, highchair and potty chair all snap into it).</div>
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*just kidding</div>
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speaking of car seats~you new parents will be buying about 3 of</div>
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baby that you may get a shower every few days~</div>
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you need a special little bassinet for by your bed, a pack and play for travel,</div>
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a crib for their rooms that will transition to a toddler bed~ then a single bed and</div>
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she has a strong loyalty for her home state of mn. and wanted baby p. to have a mn. shirt!</div>
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the morning of day 2 lars took a long bike ride up to two harbors and back while I<i> drove</i> to 3 different beaches to ding around and look for beach glass, pretty rocks and drift wood.</div>
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it's always fun to drive by the beautiful home (above) that my friend leslie and her</div>
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the fabulous boutique sales leslie had there.</div>
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I never miss an opportunity to see if there <i>might</i> be beach glass and while I was looking lars started talking to this nice couple. when she found out I wasn't having much luck she took two beautiful pieces out of her pail and insisted on giving them to me. I tried to say nooooo, but she just pressed them into my hand and said "these are a blessing for you".</div>
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the castle, but it's under new ownership and I can't remember the new name. the food was excellent!</div>
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5 beaches later this is the total extent of my treasure hunting. it wasn't the best this time, but i guess it wasn't the correct time of year for the big winds that toss up the treasures. oh well, i brought the loot home and added it to my bowl of sea glass. it makes me happy.</div>
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the last day we headed to brighton beach so dale could try kayaking the big lake. he really loved being out there, but did say that it was a really weird feeling too. he felt like he wasn't going anywhere, just paddling and paddling and then all of a sudden he looked back and felt like he was in the middle of the ocean. : ) </div>
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of course he wouldn't put his life jacket on, just had it in the bottom of the kayak. (some people's kids!)<br />
to tell you the truth i kind of had to drag my hubbie to duluth. he didn't think there was enough to <i>do</i> up there. (and he doesn't like to leave his dog).<br />
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being a woosy land lover there was no way i was kayaking lake superior. i happily played on the beach while he paddled. i like to make rock stacks so i did some of that and took photos. this isn't as hard as it looks, but it's not easy either. does that make sense? if you've never tried it you should. just find a handful of rocks and start balancing them. it takes patience, but you can make all most all of them work if you take your time.</div>
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our last stop before heading home was the leif erickson rose gardens in duluth. so much beauty. these gardens are close to the fitger building on london road if you want to check them out sometime.</div>
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have a good weekend friends, i'm so excited for a baby shower that my girlfriends are hosting for my daughter. you guys our grandbaby will be here very soon now~ there is so much love being extended to our daughter and son in law and so much excitement from our camp.<br />
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<i><span style="color: #e06666;">(that means editing client files is going to be on hold for a while).</span></i></div>
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to have a homegrown jack o'lantern this year.*score! <br />
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scarlet runner beans growing on the picket fence.</div>
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yep those are my sunflowers peeking out of the fence to say hi.</div>
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i surprised a few rabbits who were sneaking their breakfast on the way in.</div>
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this is what i've got growing there. (a handful of happy)!</div>
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in my own garden at home i'm again enjoying dahlias this year.</div>
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this plant below is taller than i am you guys!!</div>
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our woodpile on the 4th of july. our dog smelled him and barked and</div>
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looking up at us like "what? move along... there's nothing to see here folks".</div>
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happy bouquet of flowers from my cutting garden!</div>
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my sister and her hubbie live on a farm. they have critters on their farm and</div>
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today i thought i'd give you a walk around with me to meet some of them.</div>
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(this is just <i>some</i> of them...i missed Shasta the dog and about 32 cats).</div>
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let's start with nimrod the goat. grampa david got this goat in the spring for their </div>
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granddaughter isie. she toyed with the idea of entering it in the fair but</div>
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goats are funny and entertaining and unpredictable and he's all of that.</div>
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my sis gets stuck doing the chores (which for you non-farm kids means feeding them) a lot.</div>
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her hubs works long hours and is gone overnight a fair amount this time of year. i followed sis</div>
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around their peaceful farm and watched her bring water and food to the animals and laughed </div>
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enjoy this part of farm life, but hey someone's gotta do it.</div>
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next up was the chickens. it was a hot evening when i was there and the</div>
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"hello there girls! nice to see you, but shouldn't you be over on your nests laying an egg or</div>
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on this building that greeted us for many years, but rats- last year when the</div>
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this is the dog that has tormented her and caused her to have nightmares. </div>
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all this poor dog wants is a chance to live in the house like the other dogs,</div>
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*i mean seriously. how cute is this face?</div>
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nimrod lives in here too.</div>
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the big farmhouse my sister lives in is well over 100 years old and has</div>
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why would anyone EvAr take that off? (that was done many</div>
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this is my sister's new baby.</div>
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i just came off a busy travel week. first we were at our cabin for 3 days, </div>
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it's kind of norman rockwell-ish. </div>
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any town built on a river is usually very picturesque.</div>
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they are beautiful in the summer-lush and colorful and if you</div>
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they all like some undivided attention from me.<br />
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christa had this sweet bouquet on my bedside table~</div>
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the papa bear, joe, is into carving. he's made all these hand carved wooden</div>
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the udels got a camper this spring and a friend cross stitched this for them.<br />
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christa's mom (my friend leslie) gave her this house. it's a vase.</div>
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camps and isaac, christa and i headed out to a pick your own blueberry patch.</div>
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this was an experience i'd never had. (two new experiences in one week- blueberry <br />
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it was the easiest berry picking i've ever done. if you get a chance go</div>
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how we didn't want the kids to get to them and eat them all...and we knew we</div>
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the flowers were blooming so abundantly that you could pick as many as</div>
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the crew at RBF cook up the most <i>delicious </i>pizzas in a wood fired brick oven out</div>
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yes we did bring a vase of flowers with us to red barn farm.</div>
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people bring tables, and candles, and chairs and wine and</div>
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it's just one big party out on the farm.</div>
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~ "shhhhhhh"</div>
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the last photos i wanted to share are some of the art that christa's boys have</div>
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their art teacher, (fabulous angie) has <i>the</i> best ideas and i am</div>
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for a school project, will made this amazing kermit the frog puppet.</div>
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stinking cute and whimsical and artsy and fun.</div>
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it was just the best 3 day get away of the summer for me...</div>
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thank you christa and Maggie for all the fun and laughter and</div>
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xox, beth</div>
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