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I volunteered to work the Christmas Party at Tarini's school and we had lots of fun. I was in charge of the cookie decorating station and it was "fun" to keep the kiddos from licking the knives and dipping them back into the icing. It was the longest school party I have ever been to - 2 hours - but it was nice to see so many activities rather than just eating...
Decorating her cookie...so intense.
The results!!!


creating and modeling her reindeer hat

Tarini's snowman creation is the pink one behind her head.

And...this is how you have to dress *everyday* to go outside and play. Tarini is still cold with this many layers and snow gear :) They go outside to play here unless it is below 0*.
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Benjamin's school was fortunate to have a local musician come to class each week for 10 weeks. She worked with them on all of the different aspects of music and they also learned to play the bells.
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Benjamin had 2 birthday celebrations this year...one in WI and one in KY as we were there for Thanksgiving. I'm pretty certain that he would have "tolerated" more though :)

He opened his guitar while waiting for the bus.
I think Tarini enjoyed the game more than Benjamin. He was quickly distracted by the archaelogical dig for dinosaurs.

hard at work

the first discovery

Success!

We had cupcakes at home because the requested cake was being created by Grandma in KY.

our nuts!

cupcakes and grapes at school

snap...got ya!

"The" baseball cake created by Grandma was a huge hit with Benjamin. Here he is pretending to "hit" it out of the park.

Grammy (Great Grandma) was even there for the occasion.

Anakin reading one of Ben's cards to him. Avy being Avy :)

everyone getting in on the action
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Before we moved to Wisconsin we tried to get in as much fun as we could with family. This particular day was full of memories and lots of fun was had by all.

I love this shot...my mom and dad have the best backyard.
a rare serious shot of our girl

waiting patiently for their turn to ride the horse
enjoying the ride


the kids love to ride Dakota
Benjamin and his Aunt Heather
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This day in October was a particularly fun one...Eric was home and had some downtime so we headed out to my parent's backyard. Benjamin did a little golfing, Tarini did a little dancing and they both rode scooters - even Luna got in on the action :)
