Thanks to Grandma and Grandpa for coming such a long way, bringing us so many things, so many gifts, and some of these great family pictures.
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| Mother' day present: Water heater and installation |
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| "Now you can take a hot bath whenever you want mom!!! Do you want me to pick out your clothes?" -Andrew |
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| More mother's day gifts |
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| Brother sandwich |
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| Abigail walking at the park |
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| Starting a leaf collection |
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| Amazing imagination adventures |
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| Discovered a new "flavor" of yogurt. We have plenty of love around here already, so we don't know what this tastes like or if it works. |
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| Awwwww |
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| Funny animal game: 4 people each made one part of an animal and then put it together and come up with a story about it. This would be fun with the cousins someday! |
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| At a famous park on a river sort of nearby |
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| Flower crown grannies. The pushiest saleswomen you'll ever meet. But we did by some. |
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| The minority waterwheels are famous here. |
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| We got a picture alone together! Thanks Grandpa. |
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| Scenic drive to the river |
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| Using the water wheel to mill |
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| Epic chess battles |
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| Epic Uno battles |
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| We are a lot of jiao zi |
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| Family movie time and Andrew giving grandpa a very "warm" (or perhaps just hot) welcome |
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| We tried fire ginseng |
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| It really wasn't bad, but I wouldn't go out of my way to get it either. Kind of like very tart orange taste combined with an overripe cucumber center texture. |
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| Grandma Sharla wins Abigail over with ice cream and chocolate |
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| Reading The BFG and having tea parties and building Knex |
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| Music games |
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| Painting fun |
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| Sharing with Grandpa John |
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| New Snapcircuits |
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| You know that time you and grandma went shopping and you got 170 eggs? (80 were basically free) This was that time. |
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| Time to put the baby walker away when baby tries to climb in herself. |
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| Grandma and Grandpa brought The BFG book and movie. Since we actually have something that very much resembles the movie version of "Snozzcumber" we got one and had a BFG party. |
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| Snozzcumber, Frobscottle, and Dream Jar Jello |
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| This is great as a centerpiece, not so great to eat. Actually, bitter melon is pretty terrible to eat. |
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| 9 Dragon Waterfalls Panorama |
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| There are probably thousands of stairs at this parks. If you go the right way it is mostly down, but still makes your calves ache. |
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| At the entrance of 9 Dragon Falls. (Also pushy flower crown saleswomen here.) |
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| At the Lover's Falls |
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| New clothes grandma made! |
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| Abigail absolutely loves her flowered metal tea set! |
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| At the big park in town. Abigail's first ride. |
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| The boys loved this! And there is a picture with all 3 smiling! |
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| We also went to a "mall" that had a fairly new climbing structure the boys had never tried. |
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| This turned out to be one of their very favorite things! |
