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| mommy made the vests, boot cuffs, and belts and daddy made the shields and swords...cardboard and duct tape sure go a long way! |
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| all set to go trick or treating |
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| daddy helped owen reel in the fish |
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| waiting patiently |
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| umma and uppa bought us each our own fishing pole |
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| everett choose a spider man themed pole |
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| everett's first fish |
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| some casting advice from daddy |
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| fun on the beach |
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| we love our umma |
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| we loved walking out and running from the waves |
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| heading out with our beach toys |
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| forget the toys, lets jump in |
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| owen loved making handprints in the sand |
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| everett loved the way the sand felt under his feet |
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| uppa caught a lot of fish |
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| a terrific trip with umma and uppa |
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| the big reveal is finally here |
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| it's pink! unfortunately, we didn't think of the fact that owen & everett would be lost behind the balloons in the back of the box. |
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| there are the two big brothers |
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| it's just what they wanted, a baby sister |
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| we're all very excited |
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| our little princess is on the way |
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| of course we had some time for goofing around |
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| what a wonderful day |
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| daddy opening his gift from his boys (mommy gave him his gift friday night, but more about that in a later post!) |
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| a tool belt, just like he wanted! |
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| we loved singing "happy birthday" to daddy |
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| blowing out the candles on his yummy dark chocolate german chocolate cake...his favorite! |
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| A camping theme wouldn't be complete without a tent and flashlights. We poked holes all over our cups using corn holders, then used flashlights to shine stars all over. |
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| our "campfire" snacks - fire made from cheese, pretzel logs, raisin coals, and roasting marshmallows! |
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| painting stars with mini marshmallows to remember God's promise to abraham to have more descendants than stars in the sky |
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| day 2 began with packing our bags with clothes, blankets, and food to recreate the journey of abraham and his group |
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| we packed up our tents and belongings and "moved" three times as we reread the story of abraham and his journey from haran to canaan |
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| cutting up and gluing foam to fill in our letter t's (the suggested gluing of pipe cleaners just didn't work for us!) |
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| god's little explorers not only works on teaching bible stories, letters, shapes, and motor skills, but also works on life skills. this week, we stayed with our camping theme and created smore's kits to give to many of our wonderful volunteers at church. the boys loved filling the bags and giving these out in the coming days, especially since they knew they were getting a special snack afterwards! |
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| their special snack - campfire cones (warm from the oven!) |
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| pasting the letter t made earlier in the week into his alphabet notebook |
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| colored and added his "t" treasure map piece |
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| working hard on counting dots to make number match cards, which I cut later to use like puzzle pieces |
