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Helping Break in my new sand box at my preschool playground.

Today= family work day and BBQ at Shooting Stars preschool, the playground, garden and flowers look fantastic!

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Summertime = fun with water

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this is what we like to do instead of folding the laundry...playing HI-YAH is so much more fun!

Happy Birthday Jeff!

Hope you have a special and spoiled day with your three favorite girls!  Can't wait until our visit, We miss you and love you!

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Us.  Cooking together while you guys make a blanket fort and have your "meeting" (no T.V. needed!)  Nights at home.  Love this.

getting there.

Just a quick note-Bre is REALLY potty training. She has been going on the potty whenever we remember to bring her at home and today at school, she pointed to the bathroom sign twice and when they brought her she went pee! YEAH! It's the first time she has ever used the bathroom at school. Small steps:)

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Daddy play (a.k.a. Hi-YAH)

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Yep, You are the third child.  Running around the house without clothes and a dirty face.  Eating cookies right before dinner off the floor and in the living room (in fact just helping yourself to the whole bag).  No rules seem to apply to you.  What would my mother say?!?

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And so it begins..... beach playing,  bbq-ing, campfireing, biking, hiking, family and friends visiting, walking, and eating icecream.  Here's to the wonderful memories only a summer in Maine brings.....

Memorial Day.

I'll always be thankful....

For the men and women who aren't at home this year having picnics with their families because they are fighting for my freedom.  Or for the men and women who will never be coming home.  We salute you and pray for the loved one's who support you at home. Look here for the final Salute.

Happy Memorial Day.

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As hard and tiring as it is being a mom to three, It's these spontaneous, unprompted moments that make me so happy that I have more than one and more than two kids.  After putting Breanna to bed, I walk into your room to find you both reading together.   Trevor reads the words and Lucas points to the pictures and says, "what's that?"  If you could see me behind my camera around the corner, you would see a grin from ear to ear and a tear forming in the corner of my eye.; my heart just leaping with love.  THIS, is what it is all about....

"Gratitude is noticing the extraordinary in the ordinary. And then taking the nanosecond to feel it."  

~ Karen Krakower Kaplan

Six.

A Very Fun surprise Mad science Birthday party, so happy we could be there!

Enjoy the pics:)

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Happy 6th Birthday Pretty Girl! (5/24)

We're so glad we could be a part of your day and your really fun MAD SCIENCE party!

The club.

Today's inspiration here.

Two.

Happy Birthday Emma!

We wish we could be there to celebrate with you, so happy you have your daddy home:)

We Miss you and love you Pretty girl!

2nd lost tooth!

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You will always have people by your side to love and support you, THAT I promise you.  But YOU, my darling......... You are the one who will bring absolute joy to all the lives that touch yours.  YOU are the one that will change the world.

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You. Right now.

You want your hair long on top and refuse to get a haircut (OH, my!)

You love, Narnia, Starwars and playing with Army stuff.

You are playing baseball two nights  a week.

You love birds and eagles are your favorite.

You love a warm day with a "gentle" breeze.

Have only a month left of first grade--YIKES!

You love gardening and water your seeds everyday by yourself.

You love cuddling up at night and reading a book together (I Love it too!)

You love life and are mostly happy and excited about everything we are doing (love this age!)

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A pair of Mourning doves visiting our yard (which now had 4 bird feeders and a bird bath).

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planted.