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| so excited to open the first door of her advent house! |
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| my little snow lover |
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| Olivia's Christmas dance performance |
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| Birthday girl! 5 years old! |
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| A Christmas tea part in a fort with our fancy Christmas dishes |
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| I'm pretty proud of this fairy cake :) |
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| a photo shoot in our fancy birthday clothes |
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| Birthday fun with Clara and Stella at the bowling alley |
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| Jeff made this beautiful lamp and gave it to Cade |
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| just a little sushi date |
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| We went to the botanical gardens for their lights aglow display. It was gorgeous and fun. |
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| Writing her letter to Santa! |
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| modeling her fun yellow dress from Scott's wedding. Who says sun dresses are just for summer? |
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| Mailing Santa's letter! How cute is our town? |
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| Serious concentration while making a mug for Daddy. |
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| A girl and her doggie |
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| a little celebration with Stella, whose birthday is also in December |
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| Enjoying Downtown Bath's open house evening |
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| This girl never naps and has never fallen asleep really anywhere but her bed. Except here. |
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| Cade helping put the spare tire on |
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| again, totally not normal. The holidays must have worn her out! |
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| A little girls trip to the mall |
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| Making another sock snowman |
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| playing with balloons |
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| a few of our downtown window displays |
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| trolley Christmas caroling |
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| making Christmas cookies |
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| my first attempt at gingerbread cookies for Santa. |
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| a Christmas Eve hors d'ouerve |
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| We are serious about our icing |
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| voila |
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| carrots for the reindeer. (Olivia was SO excited about Christmas this year. I LOVED watching her experience all the magic. The first thing she wanted to do on Christmas morning was to check the carrots and then the cookies and milk!) |
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| Santa gave Georgie a sweater |
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| tracking Santa! |
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| A couple of books we read told of Christmas trees for animals, strung with berries and popcorn, so we tried it. It was pretty, but I don't think our animals were into it ;) |
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| Merry Christmas! |
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| Skyping with the Schurz clan in Montrose. Fun to talk to cousins since we couldn't be with them. |
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| A cord of wood for the carriage house stove |
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| We went to Moana on Olivia's birthday. It was AMAZING! My new favorite. |
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| Victoria and Livi |
