Sunday, June 29, 2014

Last Days in Minnesota

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The grandkids with Omi & Papa in the hot tub.
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The 5 cousins.
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Take 2 (or 25)
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Mav & Brody at the park across the street from our house in Lonsdale.
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Brody at his favorite park.
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Mav turning into a big boy.
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Brody
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Monster Mav
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Getting a cone at Treats one more time before we move.
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Messy Mav
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Mav with his bestie, Mara.
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Calves had a tough go on the farm this year. Brody is supervising Sean feeding a sick calf.
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Omi & Mav the night before heading off to Virginia.

Friday, June 27, 2014

Maverick's 2nd Birthday

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The birthday boy at his party. Batman!
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Brother Brody in his superhero costume.
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The Park Family
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Omi & Papa with the birthday boy.
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The wonderful Justice League cake made by Mary Dee
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Most of the superhero crew.
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To the rescue!
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One superhero escaped the photo.
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There's nothing wrong with a superhero that still likes to snuggle.
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Wonder Woman (Kelly) gave Brody a jet ski ride!
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Time for cake:)
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How many little ones does it take to blow out candles?
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The best part when you're 2? Bright blue frosting!
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My boys with their Wonder Woman friend.
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There was lots of swimming in kiddie pools and the lake.
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Batman pinata time, score! These kids gathered up the treats and none of them were greedy. They all said that they had gotten enough even with stuff still on the ground.
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The birthday boy hunting down all of the suckers, his favorite.
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SUCKER!
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One of the super families.
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What's a party without super races?
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Blowing bubbles with Papa.
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He was so proud of his balloon.
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The birthday boy on his real birthday after getting cool shades at the dentist.
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Celebrating on his real birthday with treats at the farm.
Maverick's 2nd birthday was on May 30. We celebrated at Sue's lake Memorial weekend and also said goodbye to a lot of family and friends. Can you tell he had a super birthday?!

Last Day of Preschool 5.23.2014

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Brody on his last day. He wrote up the sign and was pretty pumped.
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Brody with his teacher, Mrs. Pankow
Brody had his last day of preschool on 5.23.2014. He went to the Lonsdale Christian Learning Center and his teacher was Mrs. Pankow. To say that the year went better than we expected is an understatement. I'm so happy that it went so well for him!

Monday, June 2, 2014

Odds & Ends

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Mav & GG coloring together.
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Mav & Mara watching a movie together.
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4 of the 5 cousins watching the iPad together.

Thursday, May 22, 2014

Barry's Graduation

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The Park Family: Med School Graduation 5/9/2014, Brody 4 yr, Mav 23 mo
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Barry and his grandma Marian
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My parents with the graduate.
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Cake, yum!
Barry graduated from medical school on May 9, 2014. Next step, residency in Roanoke, VA.

Tuesday, May 13, 2014

Roatan 2014 Trip

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The beach right outside our house.
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If you look closely, you can see the tracks of cars. This is the "road", aka the beach.
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Our zip line experience. Perfect day, no crowd of people!
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Not a bad view from way up here.
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West Bay had the most beautiful water and beach for swimming. It was only a short taxi ride away.
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Exploring the beach along Sandy Bay.
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Sunset on the dock.
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One of the sunsets.
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The day we headed to the airport to go home. It rained right after we arrived at the airport. The only rain all week.
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We both got to read a lot and without interruption! It doesn't take long to plow through a couple of books that way.
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The pool right outside the house. It was a pretty cool shaped pool and I kind of want one:)
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The restaurant/resort/dive shop that we frequented. I wasn't terribly impressed with the food of Roatan. It was always just ok. The drinks were pretty though!
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On the way to/from many of our dive sites we passed the area with dolphins. We didn't swim with them, but it was cool to see them a handful of times.