Category Archives: activities

Water Slide Persepctive

The other day I took my kids to a local swim center. This facility is awesome since it has an outside section with a lazy river, two areas which have small water slides, water guns, buckets, a pool, and an … Continue reading

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Summer Fun List 2015

Here’s our summer fun list for 2015: This summer is just flying by…I’m hoping it slows down soon because none of us want to talk about the “starts with sch-, ends with -ool word” yet!

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Easy Lazy Day Art Project for Kids & Adults

Here’s a fun art project I discovered when cruising around the web…Glue & Salt Painting! Here are the directions: 1. Make an interesting design with some glue on your paper – we went abstract but you could easily makes a … Continue reading

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Skiing for Spring Break

Since we are just 2 days away from being done with school this year I thought that now would naturally be a good time to share some spring break photos. For their Christmas present this year, my sister and her … Continue reading

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Summer Fun 2014

Yesterday was officially the first day of Fall and the kids have started their 5th week of school but I still can’t shake the feeling of it being summer. Maybe it’s because it’s still in the 90’s here or that … Continue reading

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Move Over Mia Hamm

So this happened last weekend… Caroline played in her first soccer game. After watching her brothers play in roughly 692,000 games over the last five years, she is so excited to be on a team and play in her own … Continue reading

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The Rabbits, It’s Always the Rabbits – Part 4

Read here for The Rabbits – part 1, part 2, part 3 I know what you are thinking…Again with the rabbits? Yes, the rabbits but this time it’s different. Unbelievably, I just bought some rabbits. I know. Along with the … Continue reading

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Sesame Street Scavenger Hunt

In one of the more ironic twists of my life, I am now babysitting for the middle school band instructor. I know. Maybe we should not let him or his wife know about all the band bashing that has been … Continue reading

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Anyone for Tennis?

Anyone for tennis? Wouldn’t it be nice? My 8 year old has played tennis on and off for the last year and really enjoyed it. My 4 year old decided she had been carted around to enough sports events and … Continue reading

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Happy July 4th!

Happy July 4th from our family to yours!

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