Beijing — Day 1 (Part 3)

Right next to Tienanmen Square is the Forbidden City. The Forbidden City was built beginning in 1406 and was basically the palace for the emperors for 500 years. It consists of more than 900 rooms which were used for governmental duties and the living quarters for the emperor and his wives and concubines. There were several throne rooms, [...]

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Snowmagedon!

We interrupt this blog to bring you S N O W M A G E D O N ! Ha! ha! Just being a little dramatic. We’ve had two snow days in a row, what can I say? I think I need to get out of the house! So, I’m in the process of “catching [...]

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More From Legoland

I mentioned the beauty of God’s creation at the Grand Canyon, and now I must share God’s most fabulous creation: People! What a creative lot we are! Here’s a little slideshow of some of the millions of Legos used at Legoland. It was impressive!

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New Addition

We have a new addition to our family. Meet Dean: He is an “Earth Buddy” that Andrew made on Earth Day at school. I think he’s cute! He can even get his hair cut! Maybe we’ll give him a mohawk.

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Drumroll Please …

My Mother’s Day gift: The bag is decorated with mini Reese’s peanut butter cups with I Love You at the top with Princess Peach  and Mario Kart in the middle. The other side has raindrops falling on flowers that have Reese’s cup hats on them. He knows my favorite things! And, without further ado … [...]

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A Keeper!

I was in the mood to work on some blog posts, but I wasn’t sure what to blog about … UNTIL … this little gem came home from school with Andrew. He laughed because he said he accidentally drew me upside down. When I was a baby my mom “stop wrcking.” [Stopped working.] [Those are [...]

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A Super Mario Valentine’s

Andrew celebrated his 100th day of school on Monday, February 8. I think 100th days are usually in January, but with all the snow days it was a little delayed. Actually, they got out early on the 100th day and had no school the next day because of more snow. Ugg! Grandma  Baumer requested a [...]

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Snow Day x4

We are wrapping up our fourth snow day … yes, four days of being stuck in the house and no school for Andrew. We never heard an official snow total for our area, but there was 12 inches on our back deck. Winter decided to start with a furry! Our days probably weren’t all that [...]

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Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving from our little turkey artist!

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The Grrrrrs

No worries. There’s no growling going on at our house. It’s just the cute way that the word “girl” is hard for our kids to say correctly. It comes out more like “grrrrrr.” We happen to like it, cause they’ll say it the right way soon enough. So, it’s just us grrrrs at home most days. [...]

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