Happy Halloween from the American Revolution!!

Nov 02

Happy Halloween from the American Revolution!!

Do you know Schoolhouse Rock? When we were doing K12 (for about the first 3 weeks of school), Alex read a little book called Sam the Minuteman . After reading it, I got out our neglected copy and played “The Shot Heard Round the World.” I had no idea what I was getting into. The kids were so fascinated that we’ve been studying the American...

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An Angry Birds Party

Jul 26

Last Christmas, I stumbled across these awesome fleece Angry birds at the last minute. I didn’t have any fleece nor time to run to a fabric store, so I whipped up a couple out of felt and gave them to Peter for Christmas. They got such a good reaction that I wanted to make the rest and do it right and make them out of fleece. Of course, we definitely needed...

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Christmas Eve 2010

Jul 26

I have to put the year on this since I’m not posting until… check the date… the end of July! Yikes! We’re on ‘vacation’ right now and I’m trying to get caught up on the blog. Sooo…. what do you do Christmas Eve? We like to opening Christmas Eve pajamas. My family always did that and my mom said that it was so that we...

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Level 6 Gymnastics

Feb 19

This is Allison’s 3rd year of competitive gymnastics and her last year (thank goodness) that we have to do the “compulsory” routines which means I only have two more meets of listening to the same music over and over and over and….. It’s been a rough year for her. We moved from North Dakota to Las Vegas and she took three months off...

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Veteran’s Day

Nov 11

Veteran’s Day

I keep forgetting that today is a federal holiday. Why? Because my husband is at work, doing his part to defend our great nation. And I can’t complain because the job he is doing now, though it doesn’t give regular weekends, a normal schedule, or holidays off is such a huge step up from the schedule he was on when flying the KC-135 tanker. Between the...

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