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Pumpkin Picking
Let’s go! We said. Where? They said. You’ll see. We said. They were skeptical. That is, until we drove into the dusty dirt parking lot and Mikey cried out, “Hey! I remember this place!” Then it was all smiles and cheer. Oh they of little faith. Now maybe they won’t be as skeptical the next time we spring…
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Our First Thanksgiving
Throwback to our very first Thanksgiving together. We had just moved out to Minnesota after getting married that summer. We didn’t know anybody out there yet. So, I attempted to make a Thanksgiving meal for just the two of us in our teeny tiny 495 sq foot apartment. I had no idea what I was doing so most of it came from a box and/or a can. We didn’t have any dinnerware to speak of, or even really any furniture. Still, we were thankful to God for His goodness to us, for the meal, for bringing us together and for the new start to our life in a new…
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Universal
Driving by those billboards advertising Universal Studio’s “buy one day get the whole next year free!” one too many times and we finally caved. And went. Right after they had set up all their super scary super gross Halloween decorations. Parents of the year, right here. So, after we made it into the park with the three older kids walking with their heads ducked down staring straight at the ground and clutching onto our shirts to guide them, and Jonah cluelessly staring wide-eyed at all the creepy dummies and repeatedly asking me why all the mean, scary guys were looking so mean and scary, we concluded that there was just…
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Let’s Go Bruins
In anticipation of the big game this coming Saturday, here are some shots from tailgating Tsai-style earlier in the season. Beat ‘SC!
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First Day Favorites
So after one last last hurrah at Legoland, which I don’t have any pictures of because I didn’t take my big camera because Phil got a nifty new little camera he wanted to try out but the battery died before we really got to use it so that day will have to just be briefly noted here and live in our memories because I am teetering dangerously close to being now three months behind and I just cannot linger on that thought too long before feeling overwhelmed because now Thanksgiving is NEXT WEEK. And Christmas is RIGHT AFTER THAT. Gah. Okay. Deep breaths. First day of school. Back on August…