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Happy Birthday, Meg!

You are loved by me, your family, and many friends, a lot of whom have never even met you. Most of all you are loved by God, who made you "extra-super special", to quote one of our favorite movie lines. Hope you have a great day today.

Craig

apple fest

we were invited to come pick apples at diana and lee's house.

micah is annie's buddy at school and church.

there was an assembly line starting with picking and gathering...

then washing and drying each one.

talby was loving this assignment.

and then they peeled with the apple/peeler/corer/slicer.

(one of the best inventions ever made)

diana and i cut them and put them in tupperware.

she whipped up a quick apple crisp for munching.

craig ran out to get carmel.

it was such a fun yummy afternoon.

the kids bobbed for apples.

i think they all ended up using the stem to pull it out.

by the time they finished...they were all soaking wet.

sean really enjoyed using the apple picker they had.

diana, gb and i were discussing gb's pie crust recipe and sean says:

well...i have a recipe for YOU.

go to the store and get some apples.

find a bunch of sticks and put the apples on them.

get some carmel and put it over the apple...

BOOM you've got carmel apples!

 

he just cracks me up.

their swingset has a swinging picnic table!

i had never seen that before.

they pretended it was a boat in a storm....loved to see them imagine.

thanks again diana and lee.

we had such a nice time.  

i am determined to get my bucket peeled and in the freezer today.

THANK YOU!

pure happiness

dance class today was happy, happy, happy!

flowy fabric laid out to roll up into worms....

and then unraveling!

today they were working on learning curved, straight or angled body shapes.  

takng turns under the parachute the other girls had to feel if the one 

underneath was making a curvy, straight or angle shape with her body.

talby was straight.

annie was curvy.

then a goodbye dance out the door.

it's usually an individual thing but today they came charging all at once.

we all left with happy hearts today.