Shed Saturday 

While Daddy went to pick up the double stroller we found on Craigslist I cleaned the house and Tessa decided to make up her own “ride”. She thinks it is funny to swing on Landon’s swing.  Once Daddy came back we started to clean out the shed. For Tessa this meant touching everything and playing […]

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Trucks

This morning we ran errands. We stopped first at Lowes to get a few more bags of rock for the side yard. Tessa and I tried out different chairs for the backyard.  Then we went to Toys R Us so she could use some of her birthday gift card from Klarc to buy trucks to […]

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Gravel

James finished the retaining wall yesterday and the pea gravel was delivered this morning. We decided to do gravel in this area because Landon will need a place to dig when he gets older and our tree had roots that were preventing the grass from growing under it. James took a bunch of wheelbarrow trips […]

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Backyard Makeover

James is off for the summer…well for 10 days before summer school starts. We (mostly he) decided to tackle the backyard before Landon is born. On the right hand side we decided to make a gravel area for Tessa and Landon to dig and play with trucks. The middle area will be grass and we […]

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Pretend Market

Tessa spent most of today playing in her new play room. To say she loves it would be an understatement.       Calling Papa While organizing her pretend food I realized that her kitchen doesn’t have a fridge so I used some of her birthday money and went to Toys R Us with Aunt Polly. […]

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We have carpet 

Tessa was thrilled our carpet came today for the playroom. She napped at Gigi and Papa’s while they installed it and I picked her up after they finished. This was her reaction once we got home  She had to bring in her Mickey, Minnie, Goofy and Pluto to play first.       Then her tent […]

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Playroom/office progress

We have had a handy man at the house since Thursday afternoon building the playroom/office. It is coming along nicely! He comes back on Friday to finish then James can paint and carpet will be installed. Then it is time to decorate! Tessa is so excited.                     

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Tessa’s tree

Tessa was struggling with touching the big tree and wanting to take off all her advent ornaments so we decided to buy her a little  3 foot tree of her own. She helped Daddy fluff it, then we placed on her ribbon garland, and lastly she helped put on her Disney advent ornaments.        […]

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Christmas tree

This morning we went shopping for some ribbon to put around our Christmas tree. Tessa was a big helper and just kept throwing every ribbon she found into our cart. After her nap we put up the tree.            I distracted Tessa with a Disneyland snow globe so James and I could fluff […]

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