Snow Days
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It’s been an exciting weather week here in the Pacific Northwest. It all started Saturday evening when it began to snow and it continued to snow right through to early Wednesday morning before it started to rain heavily on the 18 inches of snow in our yard. It sure did make a muddy, slippery mess
Happy Holidays
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Merry Christmas & Happy New Year!!! Christmas was wonderful and oh so busy. I’ve been working a ton with the holidays being a busy season, so trying to get the time to decorate, shop, wrap, bake & cook was so challenging. I’m so blessed to have such a helpful husband because I’m not sure if [...]
Gingerbread House 2011
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It’s been 4 years since we last made and decorated a gingerbread house. Josh, Jakob and I actually drew up our own plans, made old fashioned gingerbread and put together the entire thing from scratch. It took us about 3 nights to complete and boy were we proud of it. This year we opted for [...]
A Message from Santa
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Jakob and Madison are two happy children this week. They have received word from Santa via a letter and a video email that they’ve both made the nice list. I really wished I would have gotten on video Jakob’s reaction to the letter when he read it. He squealed and giggled in such joy. Madison [...]
A Visit With Santa
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This evening we took the kids to visit with Santa at the Clackamas Town Center. Madison was so excited, patiently waiting all day for Jakob to get out of school and asking me to curl her hair so that she could be pretty when she met Santa or “HO HO” as she likes to call [...]