tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-51351020048344802012024-03-13T07:27:54.165-06:00Kissel FamilyJessicahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10058629183839933534noreply@blogger.comBlogger296125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5135102004834480201.post-32726365743525415232014-11-11T11:10:00.001-07:002014-11-11T11:10:44.083-07:00Four is Fun!<div style="text-align: center;">
So there's just a little bit of denial in this house that Cora is not a baby anymore.</div>
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With the first child when he turned four I might as well handed him the car keys. I thought he was huge and old enough to take care of himself (that was partially true since I was taking care of two other babies at the time). With Cora though…. I'm trying so hard to keep her little, but it's just not happening.</div>
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She is about as cute and mean as a girl can be. Her voice is so soft (most of the time) and even while she is beating me or a sibling up she does it with a smile and a sparkle in her eye. </div>
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Love her.</div>
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She had all her birthday decorations picked out a month before.</div>
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We had to cancel her actual family party due to mysterious viral rashes plaguing our house. </div>
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I can only assume she's singing "Let it go" in this photo.</div>
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I am loving all the time Cora and I have just the two of us. She is so easy going and such a goof ball to eat lunch with, take shopping, and snuggle down with for an afternoon nap.</div>
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She and her baby have been wearing these outfits at least twice a week since her birthday.</div>
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I don't get great pictures of these two handsome men very often.</div>
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Happy 4th Birthday Cora! </div>
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We love you so much! Every single day your daddy and I enjoy the beautiful and charming little girl that you are. You will forever be our baby.</div>
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<br />Jessicahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10058629183839933534noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5135102004834480201.post-58012944760553488662014-10-12T13:55:00.001-06:002014-10-12T13:55:43.289-06:006 years and loving it<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
6 years ago if you told me I would have a girl so big that I could no longer carry her in from naps in the car, I probably wouldn't have believed you. (I'm stronger than that!)</div>
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3 years ago if you would have told me that I would have a girl that has a huge heart, loves to be a helper, and has a love of all things creative, I might not have believed you. (We all know year 3 was hard!)</div>
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And if you told me today that my girl is now 6 years old, well, I have a hard time believing it.</div>
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Lillian is so easy to celebrate. She is such a fun, sweet, and interesting girl.</div>
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I love that I can watch her color and draw for hours.</div>
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I love that she can tell the best stories, real or not.</div>
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I love that she thrives off of helping people.</div>
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She is such a perfect combination of all things good, quirky, and rotten.</div>
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She picked out the Eiffel tower lamp while shopping with Aunt Christine.</div>
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Happy 6th Birthday Lillian Louise!</div>
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You are so loved!</div>
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Oh yeah. This girl had been waiting for the day.</div>
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It was hard for me to let her go. Especially last year when I had to decide to hold a spot in the class. With a not so gentle nudging Grant told me, "It's not about you. You have to do what's best for her." Well as a mom you know what's best for your children is to always be with you ;) Once I decided, I felt really comfortable with the decision. She was more than ready to spread her wings and fly. </div>
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She hopped in the school like it was her business and has never looked back one day since.</div>
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Of course, I have to say one more time how much I love Ms. Dawn! Having a teacher that is so amazing and caring makes everything so much easier.</div>
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Cora loves kissing her daddy!</div>
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I'd say he gets at <i>least</i> 10 kisses from her everyday.</div>
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She's sad in the morning if she doesn't see him before work and insist that he tucks her in with kisses every night. Can we say<i> Daddy's Girl</i>?</div>
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Getting ready for school this year was a whirlwind. </div>
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I had all three kids starting school 1 1/2 days after returning from Haiti. whew. </div>
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However, all <strike>3</strike> 2 of them were ready for the new school year.</div>
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That made it much easier and way more exciting!</div>
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Lillian ready with her leopard print backpack, outfit, and barbie lunch bag.</div>
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She was so excited and confident it made it very easy to drop her off with a smile and not shed one tear. </div>
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She has become quite the confident young lady.</div>
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Josiah went in much easier this year since he had to be the Big Brother taking his sister to school for the first time. However, being a 2nd grader he knows what coming now. School. Homework. "No fun." </div>
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As you you can see the excitement is just pouring out of him. ;)</div>
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Now Josiah may not love school, but he LOVES having his sister there. We haven't had any tears getting out of the car this year (unlike almost everyday last year) and he feels an overwhelming responsibility to take care of her. Every morning he has been running her off the sidewalk trying to hold her hand before she can even get her backpack on. Then each day of pick up he has been holding her hand coming down the sidewalk. </div>
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One day they had a conversation like this:</div>
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I love Josiah's big heart for his sisters and Lillian's spunky confidence.</div>
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That made me feel good because they can see that she is her own fun and quirky person.</div>
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Her confidence is growing, she is trying to be more brave in her speech, and her knowledge is really starting to show! I love this little girl with my whole heart and as much as I wanted to keep her all to myself, I know that she is in the best environment that she can be in to get prepared for school!</div>
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We did get lucky enough to hold a beautiful blue one.</div>
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The girls have really started to enjoy being friends and sisters now. Their relationship is great during the day and I really don't have to mediate too much. Once Josiah comes home from school the dynamics definitely change.</div>
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I have very few words, yet too many to describe how perfect of an evening I experienced with Lillian.</div>
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My Lillian has always been a special little girl. </div>
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Her emotions, loves, and dislikes are usually to the extremes.</div>
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On this night I saw my girl's heart sing out and almost completely burst with pure joy, excitement, wonder, and the most happiness that a 5 year old can exude.</div>
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As soon as I told her that we were going to go to a "cat dance" that was all she could think of. What was a cat dance? Well I showed her a couple Youtube videos and she was hooked.</div>
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We went up to Beef n Boards for the CATS production. </div>
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It was pure entertainment and magic.</div>
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Everything from the warm attentive welcome we received, the touch-the-stage seating, vocals, dancing, and interactive entertainment was absolutely perfect.</div>
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During the show Lillian had multiple experiences with the Cats.</div>
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They laid in her lap, purred on her, stared at her eyes from just inches, rubbed their noses to hers, slept at her feet, played with balloons and then topped it off by giving her a autographed "dawg" sign during the show.</div>
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Afterwards, some of the girls were kind enough to come out and meet Lillian.</div>
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I'm sure the girls at the end thought I was some weirdo mom.</div>
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At the end of the night she just kept saying, how she "loved it" and a sincere "Thank You Mommy. You are the best mommy ever!"</div>
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This little guy came to me 7 years ago and I couldn't ever have wished or prayed for a son that I would love as much as him. Josiah is such a cool kid. He's fun to talk to, is developing a good sense of humor, and is so compassionate and caring. When he was a 1 year old wild child I thought I would be chasing him for the rest of my life. Now he can be on the slightly lazy side and not the total "all boy" that I thought he would be.</div>
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We started the morning out right with his donut cake.</div>
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He was very adament that he did not want any icing at all. So we decided to to a brownie and ice cream sundae bar with all the toppings. It was a big hit.</div>
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He has the knack for remembering stats, teams, players, height, weight, about anything would want to know. He just absorbs all of it, from where, I don't know. We don't have a tv so he just picks it up from school, reading, and talking to people. It's so impressive.</div>
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Lillian was ready to go!</div>
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Of course Josiah wasn't far behind.</div>
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Cora really enjoyed it. </div>
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Her head/helmet was just lying on the pack and her eyes were shut.</div>
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She had enjoyed it so much she was DEEP ASLEEP!</div>
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Thanks Papaw and Weewa for the fun times!</div>
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He whisked me away to the small river town of Madison, to a B&B, for a BBQ and Blues festival!</div>
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My man is growing old on me and was speaking my language all the way!</div>
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Old things, food, and music.</div>
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We headed down on a Friday morning so that we could stop and eat lunch at The Osgood Grub Co. in Osgood, IN.</div>
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We enjoyed walking and walking, looking at all the old charm of the town.</div>
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This was the entrance to the back of our B&B, The Whitehall B&B. The Inn Keepers were very eccentric and his hobby besides "visiting" was collecting stone and laying it himself. It was amazing all the stone work he had done around the place.</div>
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One day at the Festival we took the River cruise to get a break from the heat and enjoy the ride.</div>
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I can not or or will not go into the depth of our inn keepers Civil War era furniture and pieces. </div>
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We were staying in a museum! Our "suite" included two bedrooms, private bath, sitting room, and a balcony. It was so fun and out of the norm! She was a delight to talk to. Very knowledgeable and proper.</div>
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Just a small, very small, part of their collection.</div>
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So to spare you the raving I'll list our 2 hour "breakfast" menu.</div>
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hand diced fruit with either raspberry sorbet or orange sorbet and a handmade crepe</div>
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Day 1:<i>filet mignon</i> with a english muffin, ham, egg, and bearnaise sauce</div>
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Day 2: <i>Cheese stuffed chicken breast</i> served with a english muffin, portabello, egg and hollandaise sauce</div>
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This was <i>seriously</i> some of the best food I've <i>ever</i> put in my mouth.</div>
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These were some people that put extreme care and detail into all they do.</div>
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To finish off our most fabulous stay, after breakfast they invited us into part of their living quarters to meet "Squirrel." Their pet squirrel. He prefers to own squirrels opposed to domesticated animals. They do let Squirrel run free range in their living room during certain hours of the day. He said that Squirrel loves routine and consistency. Like I said, eccentric, was the perfect word for our new friend.</div>
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It was such a perfect, romantic, and fun weekend. We were able to enjoy each other in a way we hadn't been able to for so long. We went down to enjoy bbq and music, but found we really were just craving the time together alone.</div>
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On another note. The festival, Ribberfest, was very well put on and really fun. The music was great and the BBQ. It was a competition. The amateurs were really fun to walk around and sample. Very good. The Pros we didn't get to taste as much. After our "breakfast" we just weren't really ready to eat a lot more food.</div>
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Thank you Grant, I love you soooo much and can't wait until you whisk me away again ;)</div>
<br />Jessicahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10058629183839933534noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5135102004834480201.post-16683352659946073822014-02-24T11:39:00.002-07:002014-02-24T11:39:52.793-07:00Look who turned 3!<div style="text-align: center;">
Cora was excited about her birthday. </div>
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She kept asking for a baby doll and minnie mouse bike.</div>
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With a simple and sincere list like that how could we not!</div>
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We try to do a donut cake each bday morning.</div>
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I'm so in love with this precious face. </div>
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She is just such a joy and blessing in our lives.</div>
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The girls checking out the new ride.</div>
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It was a whirlwind leading up to Cora's birthday between moving and Disney.</div>
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So it was great just to stop and enjoy our amazingly sweet and funny baby girl.</div>
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Cora is just so lovable in every way. Grant and her have a special bond that just melts my heart.</div>
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Happy Birthday Day Cora!</div>
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<br />Jessicahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10058629183839933534noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5135102004834480201.post-37538065414081851402014-02-19T11:43:00.001-07:002014-02-19T11:43:21.278-07:00Lillian's 5th Birthday<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
Life has settled down a bit, we have a new internet plan, and my Disney posts are done!</div>
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Therefore I can catch up on some of the most important events of 2013.</div>
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LILLIAN turned 5!</div>
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This little girl is such a blessing in our lives. As close as she has put me into going in a nuthouse she brings the equal amount of joy. The older she gets the more interesting and sweet she becomes.</div>
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She was excited to turn five and get a cat. I felt bad for her since we moved in the 2 weeks before her birthday. However, we made up for it on her day.</div>
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We made it down to TN for a birthday celebration.</div>
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Grammy made a cat cake, again, upon Lillian's request.</div>
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She was in pure heaven and was content on not getting just any cat, but the right cat.</div>
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Especially since buying a cat is harder than a gun and we weren't able to bring a cat home with us on that day. I was a little naive apparently. </div>
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I had a lot of pressure because I had told her she could get a cat when she was 5 and when we moved into out new house. So upon moving to the new house she felt it her duty to inform people and myself that I was a "liar" because I did not get her a cat the day we moved. </div>
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She named her cat <b>Chloe</b>. She has wanted a white cat and has had the name picked out for literally 2 years. Then we also felt the need to get a second cat, <b>Winnie</b> a.k.a <i> nut-sac Michael Jordan</i>. That's another story for another day. Oh, and Winnie is a female for the record.</div>
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It always feels so good when we can all get together.</div>
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Happy Birthday to my Beautiful Spunky Lillian. </div>
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I can't wait to see what she brings to this earth in the future.</div>
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I can only imagine she will leave a fun, loving, and unique imprint!</div>
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On the last day our flight didn't leave to mid afternoon so we were able to enjoy half a day at Hollywood Studios again. We were able to check our bags and get our boarding passes at our resort. That was fantastic because then we could hop on the ferry and enjoy the last few hours we had stress free!</div>
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We arrived at the park early so Grant and I would split up and get a fast pass to Toy Story Mania and sign up for Jedi Training. Too late. Even though we arrived early they had already opened the gates. So the Jedi training line was already super deep and the Toy Story fast passes were already pass when our flight left. bummer. </div>
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We went ahead and jumped into the 30 minute standby line for Toy Story Mania. It is said to have the longest average wait time of rides in the park. So we took advantage of our early arrival. </div>
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It was a lot of fun. We had a fast pass for it the first day, but since that day was cut short we didn't stay for our ride time.</div>
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This is where it got good! Lillian loves all things scary and exciting. The Tower of Terror being no exception. We had a fast pass and while waiting in the spooky corridors she was telling the lady behind us that she LOVED scary things and wanted to sleep with RATS. </div>
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The ride itself was a nightmare of a ride for me. It pulls you up 13 stories, I believe, so you are looking out a window that overlooks the park. Then it drops you... then it pulls you back up... and drops you again... and again... and again. Each time you don't know how far it's going to let you fall or how many times it's going to pull you back up. </div>
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Lillian was sitting very stoic with a coy smile on her face the whole ride!</div>
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Lillian said, "I didn't scream. Everyone else was screaming, not me, but my body is still shaking." Then she wanted to get back in line.</div>
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Before we started out on our trip I had in my mind that I was going to let the kids get their faces painted. That is something they always want to do, but I don't allow because 3 faces x $$ = $$$$.</div>
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Each day I would get disappointed about not doing it so it became one of my weird priorities on the last day. Grant just didn't understand until he saw how happy the girls were.</div>
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Princess Kitty Cora</div>
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So that pretty much wraps up our Disney trip. </div>
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I'm already thinking about our next trip :) </div>
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Cinderella's Royal Table was nothing short of fabulous.</div>
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That was a top priority of mine while visiting Disney. I've always wanted to go into the castle. The kids couldn't be at any better age to experience the magic of it.</div>
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We didn't really have to wake up that early to get them ready and looking their finest.</div>
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Of course, while waiting in line people asked if we woke up at 5am to get their hair done. I didn't go into the explanation that I'm a stylist and it only took me about 10 minutes to whip the hair out.</div>
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Lillian could not have been any more beautiful and proper. She never really showed outward excitement but her eyes were just sparkling the whole time. Also that she let me take 100 hundred pictures of just her so I knew she was into it.</div>
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Josiah was a major attraction the whole time up until he changed.</div>
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It was so much fun how many people enjoyed, commented, and were smiling when looking at Tonto from The Lone Ranger. I think he wanted to change partly because of all the attention he was receiving and also because he was uncomfortable.</div>
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Cora loved getting dressed up and being made all prissy.</div>
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She was wearing Rapunzel's wedding dress.</div>
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She really likes all the princess stuff. However, she does not like getting her picture taken and she was being sooo difficult. The only really good pictures that we have of her are the ones of her with the princesses. </div>
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Lillian in the castle by the mosaic of Cinderalla's ball.</div>
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This explains Cora.</div>
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Someone in the castle told Josiah that there had never been another Tonto at the Royal Table and that he was a first! He was so proud of that and it made him feel really special on a day that was heavy on the girly stuff. </div>
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Once I was officially over trying to take the good pictures Cora lightened up.</div>
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She was just sparkling the whole time.</div>
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I had to book this breakfast out 180 days in advance. At 8:30am 180 days out there were only two breakfast time slots available. If you plan on doing this planning ahead is a must!</div>
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It was fairly pricey for a breakfast, but worth. every. penny.</div>
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Jasmine was a family favorite. </div>
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Daddy escorting the Princess down the stairs.</div>
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Later in the day we were by Rapunzel's tower and we were able to get Cora to give us a smile there.</div>
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A few last shots before he took it off. </div>
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This was one of the only Character meet and greets we did. When we were there we had to choose between meet and greets or rides. There just wasn't enough time and energy for us to do both. </div>
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This was actually more fun than I thought it would be and then it made me wish we had done some more of them. Especially since we had the photopass. I think we would have gotten a lot of cute candid photos with the kids and characters... next time.</div>
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At epcot we just happened to run into Snow white. I'm bummed there wasn't a photopass photog there. In the top picture I was cut off, but it was cute because I had the blue shorts on and her skirt was yellow. I even teared up when I met Snow white. I was emotionally out of control the whole time!</div>
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Josiah with his R2D2 mickey ears. We took them with us on most days.</div>
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As you know by now we stayed at The Beach Club villas. The room accommodations were perfect for our family and with the full kitchen the stress of eating every meal out was gone.</div>
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However, the other resorts have the same amenities except for THE BEACH!</div>
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As much as we loved going to the parks we spent an equal amount of time at the resort's fake beach. It was about 2 acres of pools. We stayed in the fake sand side where it was complete bliss. The water wasn't too deep to worry, it was warm, and there were lots of lifeguards. The most unfortunate part was we usually got out there a little too late after finishing the parks and didn't have lots of full sun. </div>
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Even though Cora could touch in almost the whole area, she and I had more piece of mind with her swim vest on. She would freak when I'd try to take it off of her.</div>
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Jojo had a good time until he wouldn't let us help with his castle and the camera came out.</div>
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I personally think Epcot is great for kids of all ages. </div>
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When people say it's too science/learning oriented they either haven't been there in the past 10 years or they don't like learning. </div>
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We had so much fun and once we realized it was a 3 minute walk from our resort it made me wish we had purchased the park hoppers.</div>
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This was definitely a park where we very thankful for having the magic bands. Some of the rides there are wildly popular.</div>
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Grant was awesome taking the stroller pushing duty the whole trip.</div>
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However, he still walked too fast for me.</div>
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Early morning. The sun was directly in our eyes.</div>
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The back entrance to the park was empty. </div>
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Lillian and I building her car in <b>Test Track</b>. </div>
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Her and I waited with Cora until Grant and Josiah went through. </div>
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The line to it was incredible. When we first walked up it was a 15 min standby wait time. In the time I waited for Grant it went up to 2hours and the fast pass line sold out. </div>
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The experience leading up to the ride was cooler and funner than the actual ride. </div>
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One of Josiah's highlights of the trip.</div>
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<b>Club Cool</b>: flavors from around the globe.</div>
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That's a "real" smile</div>
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<b>Soarin' </b>= awesome</div>
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We were in line for at least 45 minutes with our fast pass+. Can't imagine waiting in the probably 3+ hour line for it. It was cool though. You hanglided over the coast of California, complete with wind, drops, and smells. Fun!</div>
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<b>Turtle Talk with Crush</b> (from Nemo)</div>
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one word: HILARIOUS!</div>
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Probably one of my favorite moments. I was laughing so hard. I literally had tears rolling down my face. It was an interactive "talk" with the sea-weed smoking, surfer turtle from Nemo. One of the people he had a conversation with was from Indiana. That was the icing on the cake. </div>
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It was cool technology and filled with Adult humor. </div>
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That was my goal of Epcot. To go into the ball.</div>
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We were almost in to it until.... wait. It closed.</div>
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They had everyone leave the line so we went and took some pictures and on the way to another ride... it was reopened, with no line!</div>
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I've always heard that it was a lame ride. Not much action, but I LOVED IT. </div>
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I felt like I as experiencing the magic of the original Disney goers. The animatronics were probably very far out and amazing in their day. It was a great time to sit and enjoy the vision that Disney had when he started on his theme park adventures. Then it ended with a wonderful backward decent of star gazing. I was very sentimental this whole trip and this one for some reason choked me up. </div>
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If you go and ride this one. Go with no expectations. Because you might not be on the same emotional rollercoaster I was on and think it was slow and unmemorable. </div>
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Since we were on vacation we decided to have ice cream for dinner...only ice cream.</div>
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Yes. We are the coolest parents ever.</div>
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When you order "The kitchen sink" the lights go down, a siren thing/ song goes off, a bright siren light starts flashing, and then the all the servers say something and then the rest of the restaurant responds with "the kitchen sink" It was a big deal... that I was not expecting!</div>
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4 kinds of ice cream, cake, brownies, orange slices, candy bars, sprinkles, strawberries, bananas, different kinds of syrup, whipped cream, and I'm sure I'm forgetting some things. </div>
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You name it, it was on there! Except, we ordered no nuts.</div>
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We made a HUGE dent though.</div>
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I tried to recreate the "cruise ship" creations for my kids.</div>
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Animal Kingdom was great! </div>
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For all the different opinions we had heard on it we didn't have much expectations and had planned on it being a shorter day. </div>
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It was amazing. Right up our family's alley. I didn't take a lot of pictures that day. My camera started getting in a funk and I didn't want to waste moments I could be enjoying fooling with my device. </div>
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This was after the Safari (wonderful) and train ride we took to get back to the petting zoo and vet clinic.</div>
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There weren't any medical procedures going on much to Lillian's dismay.</div>
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Rafiki from the Lion king and received our first autographs. </div>
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Grant was really enjoying the goats.</div>
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This was the kids first thing in the morning waiting to take the bus.</div>
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The detail throughout the park was so cool. I wish we could've had more time to just enjoy the small things. I felt there could've been so many off the beaten path cool spots.</div>
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Touching a snake.</div>
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Lillian was in hog heaven.</div>
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This was after we got off the DINOSAUR ride. It was exciting and intense. </div>
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Josiah wouldn't go back on it and Lillian jumped back in line with Daddy to do it again.</div>
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This was our view while eating lunch. </div>
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This park is just so pretty.</div>
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Final ride of the day. </div>
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This is more of Josiah's dino speed.</div>
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I will mention we went to a Lion King broadway style show that was amazing! </div>
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Next time we go I will definitely allow more time there. I would also love to stay at the resort that overlooks the African Plains. I can say it was not a zoo and even though there weren't many rides we could ride the experience of just walking through was great. It is much bigger than the other parks so it took more time to get between attractions. That made it a tiring time for the kids.</div>
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Magical. That is the best word to describe our WDW experience.</div>
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Everything (almost) was so detailed and fun. </div>
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It took us about a hour to get the hang of Magic Kingdom when we first got there. </div>
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Then we were off.</div>
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Look at that sky! The weather was perfect while we were there.</div>
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Standing in the mist of the water station.</div>
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Showing me her big ears like Dumbo!</div>
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I was so excited to get to dine in Belle's Castle at "Be Our Guest" </div>
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We came across the line for lunch a little after 10. Waited 30 minutes for the restaurant to open and then another 30 to get in. Worth it. </div>
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Waiting for our food to arrive. </div>
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You order you food at a kiosk, then find any table you want (we ate in the "rose room"), put your magic band bracelet in the middle of the table, and then when your food is ready they bring it out to you in a serving cart. I thought it was so cool because they you the short field communication from my bracelet that I used to order our food to their little doodad on their cart to find your table. So cool...and freaky.</div>
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After we ate lunch our fast pass for "Belle's enchanted evening"was ready to go. </div>
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At first we went into this room where they were prepping us for an interactive play. </div>
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Grant asked why I wasted a fast pass on it. </div>
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Until we went into the next room and SURPRISE! There was beautiful Belle.</div>
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Magical. Tears in my eyes. </div>
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They ran through the play with her and then did a parade around the room.</div>
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At the end they each were introduced as their "part" and a picture with Belle.</div>
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Jo is just so stinking sweet.</div>
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He picked the R2D2 mouse ears.</div>
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Waiting for the Haunted Mansion.</div>
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Out cold. </div>
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She did this everyday. That's when we knew it was time to head back to hotel.</div>
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The parade was so fun.</div>
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Since it's been over a month I figured I better get something up on here!</div>
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We are still trying to get the hang of limited internet and a simpler life.</div>
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In the car at 5am. Everyone was holding up well.</div>
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Ready for take off.</div>
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This is what we saw as soon as we got off the bus at our resort! </div>
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He wrote something up in the sky everyday we were there :)</div>
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I'm already at 3.5 GB for the month. Gotta go! ;)</div>
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We have finally moved to our new home and we finally have internet. limited internet. (warning: rant ahead) Even though I don't feel we are any further in our location, our services are much more rural. There isn't any cable ran out here so it took us a bit to figure out what we were going to do. It was funny for the <i>two</i> weeks without how diconnected I felt and how many more people I actually talked to and interacted with.</div>
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Changed my address <i>at</i> the post office, Talked on the phone to a<i> person </i>for insurance, I even actually broke out the <i>stamps</i> to snail mail a bill. With each interaction I had to explain to them that I didn't have internet... like I was the only person in the universe. ridiculous on my part.</div>
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Grant and I were just saying how much more conscious I am of my internet usage. When you know you can only use so much, craiglist searching and blog reading is definitely more... </div>
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That's what life has been feeling lately. And it's a good thing.</div>
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We've decided we are intentionally not going to get a tv for a while. (Maybe just a small one with a dvd player for the kids movies. I am missing our Friday night movie night.) </div>
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We intentionally sit on the porch or big rock in the backyard in the evening watching the cows walk across the pasture for the evening.</div>
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I intentionally sit in the kitchen table chair that looks out to the beautiful sunrise watching the cows make their way in for the morning milking.</div>
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We intentionally sit in the living room at night and read.</div>
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Grant and I are doing well. The Kids are adjusting well. The dogs are doing well also.</div>
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It'll take me a bit to get my thoughts together and get our move documented :)</div>
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This is where we now call home.</div>
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Lillian finally quit calling it "Dead Aunt Betty's" or the "Die House"</div>
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However, she still likes to talk about Betty in the cemetery every time we pass it since it's 2 miles from our house.</div>
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These two were so eager to help us get painted.</div>
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Grandma Alma is a great <strike>slavedriver</strike> motivator/decision maker.</div>
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I missed out of a really cute picture of Granny K watching the kids while we worked.</div>
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She was so sweet and helped us with the kids a ton.</div>
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This guy (hurt his back) and his wife helped us get moved.</div>
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Thank you to the Reillys, Whitesels, Saunders, Sommers, and Kissels.</div>
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The cliche "Home is where the heart is" has taken on real meaning to me. I am a homebody. </div>
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The week before we moved was very surreal. Everyday I thought this is the "last ---day night that I sleep in this house." When I walked into the nursery, which was the hardest room for me to say goodbye to, I would feel saddened knowing I rocked every one of my babies in there. </div>
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Home is now here, because that's where my family is and where we will be making our next decades of memories.</div>
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Lillian started Pre-K this week. To say she loved it would be an understatement. </div>
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She actually likes getting her hair done in the morning. Which worries me. She wanted it perfectly curled like a freshman going to prom. She knew she wanted a side ponytail and would pick up pieces that weren't curled to her liking. As you'll notice her hair doesn't even hold curl well.</div>
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She likes getting dressed in the morning. As most of you know Lillian has her own sense of self. Luckily or maybe sadly she hasn't requested a dance outfit on a school day yet.</div>
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She loves making her bed right now. Like almost OCD likes making it. We had her all ready for school, shoes on (which is a big deal) and ready to go. I find her in her room insisting that her bed be made perfect before we leave and with her shoes off... to say I overreacted may be an understatement. </div>
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Striking her signature pose</div>
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Gotta love it when I get in the picture with my babies once in a while</div>
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Miss Dawn. They are going to be a perfect pair.</div>
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Peanut butter Lillian</div>
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He's really into cars right now.</div>
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Lillian picked a special outfit for the day. </div>
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Complete with the rolled up pants.</div>
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He was a little unsure about going in and I was confused on what to do.</div>
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I drew him a map how to get to his room from the front door.</div>
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So I walked him to the door and he told me to stay there....</div>
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...but I followed him, from a distance.</div>
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When he arrived at his room he was so proud that he made it there by himself.</div>
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He was also a little happy that he saw me too ;)</div>
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After the first day the drop offs were a little rough.</div>
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I couldn't figure out a smooth way of getting him dropped off. After the first week people were settling into the "norm" a little more which made it easier for us to figure out what the heck to do.</div>
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Showing a little love for The Fountain.</div>
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Fountaintown Christian Church</div>
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