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Wizard of Oz Musical, 2018

A local church here in town is making quite a name for themselves with their outstanding annual musical productions. This year the Wizard of Oz was chosen and Lilah and Vivianne both auditioned.

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Feed My Starving Children Event, 2018

Helped pack meals for kids! Our shift alone helped to feed 124 kids for an entire year! Yay! The goal when all shifts were complete was to pack enough meals to feed 700

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Hooked on Books, 2018

We were able to squeeze in a visit to the annual Hooked on Books event held here in Chanhassen, and this time we brought our little buddy, Declan! He's already 4 years old!

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Valentines Day, 2018

We had our annual scavenger hunt! Here's a tiny glimpse of what it's like... Lilah found her surprise before Vivianne this year ;-) We had Grandma Cynthia over for dinner and had Fondue.

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Lilah's Valentines Box, 2018

Lilah started working on her Valentines Box early this year. She had a plan, wrote it down, and then began collecting every cardboard box she could find. She constructed the unicorn all by

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Christmas Bake-A-Thon!

More photos I forgot to post! The girls and I baked up a storm this Christmas! We made several new recipes this year. Some turned out great, others probably won't make the cut

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Homemade Gifts!

I was going through my phone pictures, and I realized I never posted these! The girls made "hot chocolate to-go-cups" for their cousins on the Kersten side. They worked really hard

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Kersten Extended Family Photoshoot

Over the holiday break, we were fortunate enough to get some photos taken of our extended family on the Kersten side. It was freezing cold the day the photos were taken, but I

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Grandma Cynthia's Surprise 70th!

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Christmas, 2017

Grandma Cynthia joined us for church Christmas Eve morning...both girls particpated in the service as shepherds... After church we all came home and tried to wait it out a while before diving

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The Magic String, 2017...

And the tradition continues... We ended up spending 3 nights in the Wisconsin Dells with the Grosgebauers in between Christmas and New Years... it was so much fun! Keeping this a secret was

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Arboretum Lights Display

Over the Winter Break, I took the girls to the Arboretum to see the lights.

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Christmas with the Grosgebauers...

We met my parents and siblings and their families in the Wisconsin Dells for a few days during winter break! We stayed at Mt. Olympus which had an indoor water park, arcade, and

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6th Annual Kids' Holiday Party

This was our SIXTH year hosting this bash! This year's party brought new games, the standout being the SaranWrap Prize Ball, followed by the Left, Right, Center Dice game and also a new

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Vivianne's 1st Band Concert

The 5th grade band concert was pretty awesome! Vivianne is playing the clarinet and really enjoying it. I've never had to tell her to practice...so she really must like it 😆 Here she

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Kumon Award Ceremony, 2017

The girls are still going strong in Kumon...it's been I think 3 years now??? It's definitely a love/hate relationship...mostly hate for them 😫 But, even though they complain from time to

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Orchestra Hall Minneapolis

Lilah's class went on a field trip to the Orchestra Hall in downtown Minneapolis. Musical performances are my fav...so, of course, I volunteered to chaperone! It was wonderful! (This was my group)

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Christmas Tree ☑️

Found the "One"! Her name is Luna ❤️ 🎄 ❤️ Still missing that ⭐️...soon!

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Family Skate :-)

Advent Calendar Activities are well underway... Family Skate ✔

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Thanksgiving, 2017

My little holiday punch helper ;-) This was a new recipe...was pretty tasty and well, pretty to look at ;-) Thomas cooked the turkey on the grill...that was delicious! Spent this

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Cinderella Musical

We took in the Chanhassen High School's performance of Cinderella this past weekend. It was really good! The girls got so inspired watching it that they are both planning on auditioning for a

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Continental Math Award

Had lunch with this little lady today to celebrate getting a perfect score on her continental math quiz! Whoop whoop!

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Harley Belle

She's been enjoying the fire place lately... And walks with her sweater... ;-) And long snuggles on the couch...

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Halloween 2017

Halloween. Lilah was Wonder Woman and Vivianne was a burglar. I walked around our neighborhood with Lilah and her little buddies. Vivianne went with her friends in one of their neighborhoods this year!

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Junior Achievement BizTown Field Trip (Vivianne, 5th Grade)

I chaperoned the 5th grade field trip to Junior Achievement BizTown last week. It was probably the coolest field trip I've been on. The place is set up like a mini community that

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