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Celebrating 8 Years

Turning 8 was definitely great and possibly the best birthday yet! I am so proud of the little lady Emerson is becoming. I’m regularly blown away by her thoughtfulness and inquisition and while I caught a glimpse of a premature teenage attitude over the summer, she is silly and sweet to the core. Her enthusiasm for animals has not slowed down and to her list of interests I’d like to add tiny ‘surprise’ toys, Descendants and The Greatest Showman, math games, bracelet making, and the great outdoors (still a ‘yes’ for bugs and worms). We celebrated her birthday with the usual sugar overload for breakfast and a visit from her dad and I over lunch. Birthdays...

Baby Bears, Red Panda’s, and Flamingos… oh my!

With less than a month left before school starts, Emerson and I got out-of-town for a day to visit the Sioux Falls zoo. We had so much fun exploring all of the different habitats and of course nature girl here schooled me all things animal trivia. Highlights of the day were mining for gold, riding the train, hot dogs & cherry ICEE’s’, and a very stinky rhino!...

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Christmas Morning 2017

Gangs all here! My favorite morning of the year, it means so much to me to have family over Christmas morning for breakfast and good old-fashioned festivities.  As my sisters and I get older and explore our own paths it’s never a given for us to all be together on any holiday. When the stars align and everyone is under one roof I couldn’t be any happier!...

Halloween 2017

This year Emerson traded ‘wicked’ for ‘wild’ and dressed as Aviva from her favorite show of all time — The Wild Kratts. She was honestly thrilled with her costume, and I was thrilled with how easy it was to throw it on and be on our way Trick-or-Treating. We met up with her bestie once again for some brisk candy-collecting and I couldn’t love this night any more.  ...

Hawk Valley Garden

I must have been daydreaming about Christmas early this year because we never got around to carving our pumpkins; it was a beautiful fall nonetheless....