Elora’s Birthday Party

Elora wanted a fancy tea party for her birthday, so I made a lot of finger foods, some strawberry lemonade, and got ready for a bunch of kids to come over! We picked some of the beautiful blossoms off the trees to decorate...

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Grandpa’s 70th Birthday

Grandpa turned 70 years old the day Elora was baptized. We all headed over to Grandpa and Grandma’s house for dinner and some yummy red velvet cake. In my family we always use the appropriate number of candles, so Chris and...

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Elora’ Buffalo Birthday Dinner

Chris was out of town on Elora’s birthday so we didn’t have her party, but I still wanted it to be a special day. We were going to go hiking, but it was COLD. So I asked her where she wanted to go out to dinner and...

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Chris’ Birthday

For Chris’ birthday he opted for profiteroles instead of a cake. My dad picked up a question mark candle, which we all thought was funny and I was glad not to have to put 33 candles in my pretty profiteroles! Marion helped...

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Oliver’s 6th Birthday Party

Oliver had a Lego birthday party the week before his birthday. We started out by coloring lego people. I just wanted an activity for the kids to do while we waited for everyone to arrive, but this was surprisingly popular...

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Marion Turns 3!

Marion turned three at the beginning of this month. She was born on Marie Antoinette’s birthday. Our little Viennese princess. She wanted to help me make the cake for her birthday. Marion loves to help me cook and is...

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More What We Do!

  To get prepped for the Apple Festival, we dug out Marion’s apple hat. It is quite the favorite. She played hide and seek with me in the trees in the yard by pulling her hat on and off of her face. Funny...

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James’ First Birthday!

  I am a month late, but here it is! James just turned one and we had a little party at our house. Chris made fish and chips for dinner, which was a huge hit with everyone.      Oliver was...

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Home Again!

  In the Paris airport we found these little theater spots where you could pick a movie to watch. We wished we had wandered around and found it sooner, because we started a pretty good movie and didn’t get to finish...

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