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  We had a lovely Easter! The kids didn’t pull an all nighter like last year, thankfully.  Well, the newbie was up a few times but that’s nothing out of the ordinary so I won’t count it 🙂 We had a few celebrations: neighborhood Easter Egg Hunt, Ward Easter Egg Hunt, our family’s Easter Egg […]

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CHRISTMAS ADAM The kids are looking forward to and enjoying this Christmas-y tradition more and more each year!  (Recap: On Dec 23rd we let them open one present in the morning, we eat a cheese and fondue dinner, and then we camp under the Christmas tree and watch a Christmas movie at night.)  This year […]

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Halloween seems to become a bigger and bigger celebration each year!  Between Trunk or Treat, Fall Festival(s), school parties/parades/shows, pumpkin carving, and the actual trick-or-treating on Halloween our whole week is full of fun. This year we went with the extended family to Hundsader Farms for a Fall Festival the Saturday before Halloween.  The ostrich pecking […]

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Christmas this year was HOT! Hottest on record, I believe? The high was 86, which, incidentally, was the same high as July 25th, 2015. Christmas Eve afternoon, while I was cleaning and Ben doing yardwork, the kids were outside playing in the sprinklers. My mom wasn’t feeling up to hosting Christmas Eve because she was […]

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Christmas Adam is a colloquialism for the day before Christmas Eve or December 23rd. It is a rather new term. An online slang dictionary created a listing for it only nine years ago. Christmas Adam last year was a big hit so we continued the tradition this year.  A present, fondue dinner, Christmas movie, and sleeping […]

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