tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-61863782424511605862024-03-13T11:21:25.215-05:00G'day GibbinsWelcome to our little corner of the internet! What started as our virtual "baby book" has evolved into a look into the good, the bad, and the ugly happenings of the Gibbins Gang! It's not always pretty, but I wouldn't change a thing!Laurenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01741262894364080004noreply@blogger.comBlogger521125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6186378242451160586.post-41083257936707614442014-12-22T18:00:00.000-06:002014-12-22T18:00:03.513-06:00Fiesta texas 2014<div class="separator" style="clear: both;">
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This year's Fiesta Texas trip was extra fun because Jonas earned his free ticket and Troy took the day off to join us! I was worried about crowds since it was a Friday but we were all pleasantly surprised!</div>
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We spent time at the regular park, headed to the water park, and then went back to the main park. </div>
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Jonas loved the Roadrunner Express and rode twice alone while I watched! Reef was over at the Boomerang, his most favorite roller coaster ever.</div>
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The big swings were closed all day, so they had to settle for the small ones. These make me much less nervous!</div>
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This is the Pandemonium. They loved it, but I absolutely think I'd throw up on it! That car spins while it moves on the track! They rode it 2 or 3 times in a row. No, thank you!<br />
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It was a super fun day with our 2 oldest guys!Laurenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01741262894364080004noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6186378242451160586.post-6525627223643023122014-12-22T08:00:00.000-06:002014-12-22T18:52:44.010-06:00Summer trip to Conroe<br>
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We made a trip to Conroe this summer to see the fam! This is a bad shot, but this is how we travel; 1 dvd player in the back (with Troy's custom stand), and 1 in the front. It really cuts down on the fights, and it's great when they all wear headphones so I can listen to my own music!</div>
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We couldn't get a condo this time, so we did a staycation with Gigi at the LaToretta Resort.<br>
We had a blast! They had s'mores by the lake one night.<br>
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I was super fun and let them have 2 each!<br>
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We spent hours by the pools! Lachlan loved this waterslide! It was nice because 3 out of 4 could do their own thing!<br>
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She preferred the splash pad.<br>
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We splurged on the breakfast buffet both mornings. The kids thought it was great to pick whatever they wanted in unlimited quantities!<br>
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The big kids splash pad.<br>
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The resort also had a kids' club that the kids went to one afternoon. I lived wildly while they were gone and took a nap.<br>
After our 2 days at LaToretta, we moved to Gigi and Mr. Don's house.<br>
We had breakfast with Grandma one morning and then headed back to her house. Reef got his first solitaire lesson, which brought back sweet memories of this woman teaching me to play at the beach!<br>
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Lachlan and Poppy crafted with stickers...<br>
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While Jonas painted his own frisbee.<br>
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These are out of order but I couldn't be bothered fixing it... The resort also had a putt putt course, which you know my kids couldn't pass up!<br>
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Of course we visited Mr. Jerry on our trip.<br>
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And played Kinect at Mr. Joe and Ms. Lisa's house.<br>
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These 2 would much rather swim than "play bideo games" as Poppy calls them.<br>
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We also got to have dinner with Taylor and her family right before leaving to come home. It was a great trip to see the family!Laurenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01741262894364080004noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6186378242451160586.post-14943066336403100982014-12-19T18:00:00.000-06:002014-12-19T18:00:08.563-06:00Beach trip!<div class="separator" style="clear: both;">
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I was determined to get a beach trip in this summer! It got crazy busy, so we could only make a day trip to Corpus, but it was worth it! The only downside was that Daddy couldn't join us!</div>
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Look at all these friends we took with us!</div>
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Poppy was TERRIFIED of the wind at first. She cried and clung to me for an hour before she felt safe enough to play. Once she got used to it, though, she loved the sand and the surf. Several times I had to pull her back in from swimming to Mexico!<br />
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Lachlan loved it, especially since he didn't need his life jacket.<br />
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Reef spent most of the day digging and building castles.<br />
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Such fun memories were made, and we can't wait to do it again next summer!Laurenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01741262894364080004noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6186378242451160586.post-987733188541851462014-12-19T08:00:00.000-06:002014-12-19T08:00:05.588-06:00Princess store<div class="separator" style="clear: both;">
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One of the mornings that the boys had reading camp, Poppy and I headed to the mall in search of the elusive Elsa doll. It wasn't there, but she did get to be princess of the day and open the store for everyone!</div>
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They were pooped after so much party fun!<br />
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This year Dress Like a Cow Day at Chik Fil A fell on the same day as free slurpee day at 7-11! What fun to get free treats at 2 different places!</div>
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I was tired of making trash bag cow costumes, so we upgraded to t-shirts this year! They had a blast potato-printing, and now we are set for a couple years!</div>
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Jude and Melynda joined us for lunch this year. We only made it to CFA once this year, a little disappointing since we usually squeeze in 2 meals on Cow day! We will have to raise the bar next year!<br />
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And after nap we headed to 7-11. This was a first for my kids and they loved it!<br />
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For 4th of July this year we headed to the Goodmans' Ranch. They guys needed to do some Survivor building, and us wives decided to tag along!</div>
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I was worried at first about it being too crowded, too hot, too much work... I really wasn't sure I wanted to go, but we ended up having a great time!</div>
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We drove the Polarises.</div>
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And Reef proved to be a pretty good driver!<br />
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We shot guns.<br />
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And found TONS of shell casings.<br />
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This girl was OBSESSED with the horses and the pigs. She had no fear, and we had to keep a close eye on her!<br />
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And witnessed a very fancy fireworks display.<br />
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Can you see the pigs in this picture? The kids had a blast chasing those poor baby pigs!<br />
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Everyone was excited when Josh caught one for them to pet.<br />
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My whole world is in this picture! Love it!<br />
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We hiked to the river for some wading.<br />
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Lachlan "found" this turtle shell.<br />
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After a failure with a slip n slide and water guns, we enlisted the men's help in filling water balloons. A fun game of water balloon baseball followed.<br />
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Until that got boring and a water balloon fight started!<br />
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Our whole crew! We missed the Hills and the Bennetts, our other Survivor families.<br />
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Just the boys, because Poppy wasn't in the mood for more pictures...<br />
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BFF's.<br />
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In June, I headed to Dallas for the Teach Them Diligently homeschool conference. At the last minute, Kristin and Kristina were able to join me to make it even more fun! Us girls took no pictures but came away inspired by all the awesome speakers we heard!</div>
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Mike and Troy got the kids together for pizza and a movie while we were gone, and they did manage to take pictures! Looks like they had a good time, too!</div>
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The boys went to 2 reading camps in the summer. Poor Poppy was too little for both! One morning we stole Lily and headed to the zoo! It's fun to do the zoo with 2 little girls who still think everything is amazing!</div>
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They got to ride the carousel, which has tons of cool animals to choose from!</div>
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This how we make a "double" stroller!<br />
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We had such a good time and hope to do it again soon!<br />
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We headed to Sonic for our traditional half-priced shakes!</div>
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Some of these crazies wanted a slush instead!<br />
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To each his own, I guess. I don't even remember Jonas's hair being this short!<br />
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<br />Laurenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01741262894364080004noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6186378242451160586.post-75451171613614730542014-11-26T08:00:00.000-06:002014-11-26T08:00:08.376-06:00HEB dateOne day last summer, Poppy and I had a playdate at Chick Fil A with her friend Jesse. After lunch we headed to HEB to grab some groceries. It was customer appreciation day and this girl scored a crown, wand, AND got her face painted! Our next trip to HEB had a lot to live up to!<br />
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Our sweet Poppy turned 3 on June 3! I thought this year would be the year for fun, girly party, but instead we were in Mexico.</div>
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She celebrated early with the Torres fam and got this princess cupcake game. Obviously everyone in the family loves it.</div>
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She also got these fun princesses from Gigi and Mr. Don. I love that she can change the clothes all by herself!</div>
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For her birthday, we had packed her present and then did a great wrapping job at our house.<br />
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It's Anna!<br />
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She was in love!<br />
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After a morning at Ciudad, the sun came out enough for the birthday girl to get in a swim.<br />
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That evening we had a team dinner in a restaurant. Sweet Sara made our girl cupcakes!<br />
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The whole team sang Happy Birthday to her! She was surrounded by all her favorite teeanagers!<br />
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Do you see that all her favorite people are boys??? We are going to have our work cut out for us as she gets older!<br />
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I would say that this is the face of a very happy birthday girl!<br />
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I'm so excited to finally get blog about our mission trip to Mexico! At the end of May, our whole family headed to Ciudad de Angeles, a children's home in Cozumel, Mexico. We went with a very small group from Northside and joined a large group from College Station. </div>
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It was Poppy's first trip on an airplane. She did great!</div>
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At the end of the first day, I was kind of ready to go home. We had an EARLY morning flight and 2 kids threw up on the plane. It started raining minutes after we landed in Mexico and was forecasted to do so the entire week! Jonas also cut his foot open walking home from lunch and was patched up with a paper towel and duck tape (he still has a scar!), and Poppy refused to sleep. Thankfully after much crying and prayers, things looked up after that first night's sleep!</div>
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Our housing in Mexico was a house with a nice courtyard AND a pool! We found this friend:</div>
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On Sunday we had lunch at Ciudad and stuck around for an afternoon of games and playing.<br />
Thankfully someone brought legos!<br />
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At Ciudad, children are adopted by the children's home and live in "family groups" with house parents. It's a really neat set up.<br />
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Poppy found a forever friend in Kristina and they loved playing Barbies together!<br />
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As a reward after working all morning, I let the kids swim in the afternoons. It was raining on this day but that didn't stop them!<br />
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Our weekday mornings were spent teaching ESL classes and Bible classes. My kids joined the "angels" for the fun.<br />
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On Tuesday, our friend had joined us inside the house!<br />
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Swimming for the birthday girl! She celebrated the big 3 in Mexico and will get her own post for that!<br />
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Because of the rain, these guys spent lots of time doing puzzles that we found in our house. Mr. Wayne made a great housemate!<br />
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The children received money to spend at the "store" for good behavior during the classes. Here are my guys comparing their buys. My 2 big boys bought lots of school supply-type things, which I thought was really funny!</div>
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2 of our evenings were spent having dinner at the houses on campus. Thankfully the rain stopped and we were able to play outside!<br />
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Poppy played chalk with these girls ALL.NIGHT.LONG!<br />
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They were filthy when it was all done! It was amazing to see how you don't need to speak the same language at 3 and 4 years old. Poppy and Kristina knew exactly what the other was saying!<br />
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Troy did a fun Minute to Win It devotional. This might have been the highlight of the trip for him. <br />
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What mission trip is complete without ice cream?!<br />
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On Thursday night, all the "little" boys came to our house for dinner and swimming. <br />
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It was a wild night with all those boys, but we had a great time with them! And don't worry, Poppy held her own in that pool full of boys!<br />
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Friday was our free day! We headed to Chankanaab National Park for a day of beach fun! As a birthday present, the nice man at the gate let Poppy in for free! They all loved swimming and wading at the kids beach. And there were lots of fun fish and animals to see.<br />
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After a family lunch of tacos (Jonas eats meat in his Mexican tacos, by the way), and fish, we explored the park and saw iguanas and crocodiles before hitting the pool. <br />
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We celebrated that last day of Kindergarten and 2nd grade with milkshakes from Sonic! Overall, we had a great year!<br />
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Lachlan is an old pro at this now.</div>
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This is his whole class with his teacher Ms. Berta.<br />
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Poppy, on the other hand, was very serious about her job on stage.<br />
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This is her whole class.<br />
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Lachlan's class had a special graduation ceremony. He refers to this as his "first preschool graduation" since he is going again this year for a "gift of time" class.<br />
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Isn't he cute?<br />
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At the end of the program, we said goodbye to longtime director, Ms. Theresa. She did a great job running the preschool and it was sad to see her go. Lucky for us, she lives close by and we still get to see her lots!<br />
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It was a great end to a great year of preschool!Laurenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01741262894364080004noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6186378242451160586.post-83903908966555437872014-11-04T08:00:00.000-06:002014-11-04T08:00:05.755-06:00More Sea World fun!Sea World was open on the Thursday before Easter, so the big boys and I took advantage of going while the little 2 were at preschool! We were so excited to ride the big rides, only to find they didn't open till later than we planned!<br />
We made the best of it, though. They rode the spinning worm ride that makes me want to throw up!<br />
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We grabbed some Dippin' Dots, which is extra-special since we NEVER buy food at the park!<br />
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They thought these sculpures made from recycled trash found in oceans were really cool!<br />
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For our very last time to Sea World with the Torres family, Crystal and her boys joined us, too. While Erin took the big kids to ride a ride and I stayed with Max and Eli and Matthew, Crystal took the others on Abby Cadabby. This was Poppy's first ride!<br />
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Before Liam moved, we made sure to have him over for a special sleepover with Lachlan.</div>
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I took them on a special date to Sonic.</div>
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Then we came home and watched Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs.<br />
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Northside hosted a Frozen-themed Mother-Daughter brunch for Mother's Day this year. Of course we signed up because we love all things Frozen! Gigi was able to join us for this special occasion.</div>
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There were so many fun activities at the "Frozen lunch"!</div>
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She loved all the accessories that were provided!</div>
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And we took a fun picture all together!</div>
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We joined some friends for Open Gym at a gymnastics place in the spring. It had a GIANT foam pit and was a HUGE hit!</div>
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This girl is ready for her own gymnastics class!<br />
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There's Jonas hanging from the high bar!<br />
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Laurenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01741262894364080004noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6186378242451160586.post-50726173900491126932014-10-13T08:00:00.000-05:002014-10-13T08:00:01.513-05:00Reef's 8th Birthday!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
We decided no parties in 2014 for the kids. So, his birthday was pretty low key. Looking through these pictures, we might've celebrated twice...</div>
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Still LOVES those Legos! He also got gift cards to the Lego store.<br />
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Ready for the cake!<br />
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He requested a cookies and cream cake. It turned out pretty good!<br />
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Gigi and Mr. Don got him rollerblades!<br />
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He did pretty good for the first try! Now that it's cooler, we need to get back out there and practice!<br />
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We also celebrated at Willie's with Gigi and Mr. Don. He wasn't feeling the picture-taking!<br />
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Reef also got to do his special dinner with the Chapmans, which is always fun. All in all, I don't think he even missed a party!Laurenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01741262894364080004noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6186378242451160586.post-12795283430617352182014-10-10T08:00:00.000-05:002014-10-10T08:00:08.804-05:00Book It!<br />
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Nothing beats free pizza for doing something they love: reading!</div>
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Troy turned 40 in April! I really wanted to surprise him but was so overwhelmed with Africa and the Missions Garage Sale! My dear friends kept me motivated and helped me plan it. The Craftons graciously offered to host the shindig! The party fell on the evening after the garage sale. Troy wasn't thrilled with this idea and almost cancelled! I had told him we were going to Craftons for dinner with Torreses and Zimmers. Thankfully, I convinced him we still had to go!</div>
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He was totally surprised!</div>
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He saw the whole crowd as we came around the corner! So fun! </div>
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He said he was totally clueless. The busy-ness probably helped keep him in the dark, especially after several people almost spilled the beans too early! </div>
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The whole gang (minus the Craftons who had to pick up Stefan)! It was so special to spend this day with this amazing friends!</div>
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