tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23344120773579598022024-03-13T02:15:38.701-05:00Life with the Z'sUpdates, Memories, & Thoughts from the Zastrow FamilyAZhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02918128710557595767noreply@blogger.comBlogger191125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2334412077357959802.post-88421162306315150632013-05-15T10:39:00.000-05:002013-05-15T12:54:43.925-05:00Our Journey on the Luther Trail<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Waking up in Wittenburg we were quite sure we were the only ones in our hotel that night. And not meaning the only guests, meaning really no one was in the building but us all night long. Definitely not something you would see in the U.S. Given our early bed time the night before we were up, ready, and waiting for breakfast to start downstairs at 8:30am. We had about 20 mins to kill while we were waiting so we decided to walk around the castle church and take a few pictures. The castle church is under renovation for the next 2 years in preparation for the 500th anniversary of the reformation. They had a very nice large poster type picture of the most photographed doors in Germany set up out in front of the building because scaffolding was all around the castle church and the doors. We couldn't go in the church either which was quite disappointing, it was closed for renovation for the 500th anniversary of the Reformation in 2017. A lot of Luther sites are getting all gussied up for the big 500th. It was still pretty amazing to be there and think of the events that happened here that long ago.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Castle Church tower, across the cobble stone road from our hotel.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A picture of a picture of the most photographed doors in Germany.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The actual entry way and doors. The had the doors open and were going in and out with equipment for the renovation project.</td></tr>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">After our short walk around the castle church breakfast was ready and we didn't recognize a lot of it. They had soft boiled eggs at each of our place settings, the only reason I even knew it was a soft boiled egg was because it was on a little stand with a tiny spoon and had seen it in the movie Ever After with Drew Berry Moore. So I gave it a whirl and it was not that good. The mix of hard white with runny yolk was not great for me but at least I tried it. Adam was eyeing up some soft cheese and when he grabbed it with his fork and took a bite and it ended up being butter. We had a good laugh at that. Shortly after he took a bite of bread and it was all good. After having a light breakfast, a lot due to the fact that we had no idea what we were eating, we headed out for the day to the Luther museum. When we got there using the parking meter was again interesting. We had started to sort of understand what to do with it but we didn't have the exact change we thought we needed. So we asked this nice looking older gentleman to help us. Again when we asked Sprechen Sie English he said, little bit but that was about the only English phrase he knew. So he walked over to the meter with us and helped us figure it out. It turned out we did have enough money we just weren't putting in the right increment. He reminded us of Adam's grandpa which was funny but also nice, felt a little bit like home even though we couldn't understand each other.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Once inside the Luther museum I recognized immediately a small 3 ft plastic Luther. So I asked the lady we just bought our tickets from if it was one of the mini Luther's that filled the town square I read about in my Travel Germany book. And sure enough it was one of the 800 that filled the town square as an art installation that was done while the statue was in Berlin for 6 weeks for maintenance They were in red, black, green, and blue. After the statue returned they sold each mini Martin Luther</span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> for 350</span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px; text-align: left;">€, about $450 USD.</span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px; text-align: left;"> </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px; text-align: left;"> W</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">e moved on threw the museum, it was so neat seeing all of it. I really liked all the artistry type things, old writings with colorful drawings, paintings, statues and the wax seals used back then were pretty neat as well. As we were walking threw Adam says God bless you to a woman that sneezed and she said thank you. Then it clicked, they speak English! So we started up conversation with them and found out they were from Louisiana and were Missouri synod Lutherans. It was so nice to chat a while with some people who really understood us. After chatting a while we moved on and saw the rest of the museum and decided it was time for lunch. We stopped at a cafe that had a cake and coffee sign out front. Pretty sad that, that was what drew us in but it worked. After we were in we saw a couple ladies eating sandwiches that looked very good so we also got the same, a salami sandwich each. We wanted a change up from Coke, Fanta, and Sprite so we got shakes. Adam ventured out of the box and got an apple shake but I just wanted sckolate (chocolate, see I'm getting there) but they were not really shakes they were more like a flavored milk with a scoop of ice cream in them but it was still very good. Then it was time to get in the car for 2 1\2 hrs and head on to Wurtburg castle.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A painting representing the nailing of the 95 theses, with state represented on the left with a fat monk's hand being kissed while the monk on the right makes off with a box of church goers money. A beggar and her child in the middle representing the churches actual responsibility, and a group of students welcoming the theses and supporting the change. </td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: 13px;">A mini Martin Luther, they also had the red, and blue, they might have had a black one but I didn't see it.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is a photo I found online of the art installation in the town square, where their would be a very large statue of Matin Luther and Philp Melanchthon.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">After our 2 1/2 hour drive getting in some quality time with the auto bahn and driving up the winding hairpin turns to get up the mountain, we arrived at Wartburg castle. After parking, there was a 20 walk up a decent hill yet to get to the actual castle. We got up to the top just in time to catch the last tour of the day at the castle. You can only see the inside with a guided tour, the only problem was we did happen to miss the only English tour of the day which was at 1pm. But we wanted to see the castle so we went on a German tour. They gave us an English hand out that explained each room as we were going threw. It was so beautiful, it is hard to imagine what it would have been like to live there in Luther's time. </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">After our walk up we finally reached the entrance.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Elisabeth's bower, probably used as the women's quarters in medieval times. The mosaic tiles depict the life of Elisabeth of Hungary, the most remarkable woman in the history of Wartburg.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Banquet hall with approximately 350 square meters, which is about 3,767 square feet and had 3 chimneys.</td></tr>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Waking up today we were a little slow moving but we managed to get ready and head down for breakfast. There was lots to choose from but some was a bit strange for breakfast or we thought. There was some cold cuts and shrimp and some cold pasta and veggie salads that seem more like a lunch or dinner food for us. But there was some of the usual too. Adam had eggs bacon and sausage that sort. I had some of that as well and also a waffle and hard boiled egg. We both had a pastry or 2 and some juice. Then it was off out of Berlin to S</span><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">achsenhausen</span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> Concentration camp. I wish we could have seen more in Berlin but we really just would needed another day there. It was rough at first getting used to driving and street signs, some things just took a bit longer then they probably would if we were back in the states. So we punched the address in the GPS and we were on our way. Adam got his first taste of the Autobahn and we saw some beautiful wide open space much different then the streets and buildings of Berlin. When we arrived in Orienburg we stopped at the information center because our GPS didn't recognize the address I punched in, so we got a map and a little direction and then were able to find it. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">When we arrived we both were thirsty so we walked into a cafe and asked for bottled water. He asked in return, with gas or without gas. I strange question to us. And the the light went on, I said to Adam, carbonated or not. Just when we thought we were getting the hang of things. Although it is funny and interesting to hear the differences in the language. After getting our bottles of water (without gas) we walked into the building to get a audio guide for the camp and started our walk. We saw everything bone chilling and more from the gates of tower A and the death strip (where if a prisoner stepped foot in this 2 feet of ground before the electric fence they would be shot and killed without warning and the shooters would be given pay raises and bonuses for doing so) to the toilet and wash room and the crematorium. The camp seems very wide open space today but they have these metal rectangles in the ground that are filled with ''tinker'' larger gravel, and each one is labeled, barrack 22, barrack 36, barrack 11, they represent all the prisoner barracks that used to stand there. Probably the saddest place (if you can even pick one) was the mass murder trench and the crematorium. Something that I noticed were rocks placed on memorials all over the camp. Like at the end of Schindler's List how the surviving Jews came and put rocks on Schindler's grave. I was curious about the stones so I looked it up and it is a symbol of respect and I sign showing that the grave is visited and cared for. And also there were flowers and roses placed all around. It's hard for me to imagine having family that lost there life in that place. But seeing those flowers reminds me that even though this is a place of history and the past. it is still like a fresh wound for others. I can't imagine knowing that in this horrible place my great great grandfather or grandmother or uncle or aunt endured the suffering of this place and lost their life there.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Tower A, where the clock remains stopped at the time of liberation, 11:07 am April 22, 1945</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Gate entering the camp through tower A, first letter in the alphabet and the first stop in a prisoners journey. The German, Arbeit Macht Frei means, Work Is Liberating. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The prisoner barracks no longer remain standing, but the out line of each filled with rock remains as a reminder of all the buildings that held prisoners.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Monument to the people killed at the camp.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This was a stone memorial placed where there was a mass grave found with ashes, and the stones loved ones placed on it to tell their loved ones they were there.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Memorial in the crematorium for all who lost there life there.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The crematorium cynically names station Z, the last letter of the alphabet and the last stop in a prisoners life at the camp.</td></tr>
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When we were finished we put the next address in the GPS and headed back through town. We were getting hungry for lunch so we said if we see something we'll stop. We wanted to go food like MC Donald's, which they do have here as well as KFC, Burger King and Subway that we have seen so far. Well as luck would have it for us we didn't pass any such place before we were back on the Autobahn and decided so wait and have a good dinner in Wittenburg when we got there. One wrong turn, one traffic jam, a boost of speed to 175 km/ hour and threw beautiful country side we arrived in Wittenburg where once again our GPS failed us and having the name of the hotel written down came in handy. We found our hotel but it was like a ghost town. There was no one around. The door for the reception desk had a note posted that the restaurant staff would check us in. We were told by her that we needed to park somewhere else then where we told her we were parked, so before we got dinner which we were very hungry for, we had to figure out how to move our car. No easy task when your talking about having to move around the old downtown shops that have cobble stone roads and several streets with no outlet. But we finally managed to move it behind the hotel and we were in search of dinner.</div>
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As we walked threw this old downtown there was only a few people and a few shops and restaurants open. We found one that looked friendly and went in to find a very nice waiter that "of course" spoke English. He helped us read the menu and we both ordered schnitzel, Adams was with ham, cheese and pineapple and mine was with an over easy egg. It was delicious. I had decided going in that I wanted dessert. I was trying to get Adam to ask the waiter but he was being stubborn so we bantered back and fourth a while about it and then I finally asked. We got crepes with wild berries. It was also very good. We talked with our waiter more when he came to get the dessert plate and he asked why we would vacation here? That we were so close to Paris and Proge and Brazil that he would go to those places. We asked if he has ever been to America and he had not been. He said it is a lot of money to spend but maybe someday. He said we was from Portugal, so he speaks Portuguese, German, and English. I just can't wrap my mind around that. We also asked him why it was so quite in town and he said it was because it was Sunday and that tomorrow would be a whole different thing. After dinner we came back to our hotel where there was no wifi and not one English channel. So we went to bed early, and were looking forward to Wartburg castle and moving on to seeing the Martins the next day.</div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">When we arrived in Berlin it was technically already our second day on vacation, after a short nap we took quick showers and went down to the concierge to ask about getting euros and getting to the Friedrichstadt Palast for the show we had tickets for that night. After talking with him we decided to try out the public transportation system to get to the theater. It was very close to the hotel so it really wasn't worth the headache of driving threw the city and parking 'n such. We got off the tram at a market and got ourselves some sweet bread and a Wurst to eat. Every time we would ask, Sprechen Sie Englisch (Do you speak English) we would get what seemed like the German tag line, "a little bit", which we concluded to really mean I may or may not but I'll try. We got varying degrees, some who did not at all know what we were saying and likewise for us. Also some that could help us when purchasing food from their shop and others who said, "a little bit" but did just fine. We had time to kill so we walked around the market and saw some interesting shops and food. There were these men who would be comparable to a hot dog street vendor in Milwaukee that had their mini grill attached around the waist like a fanny pack or something. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">After staying and people watching for a while we moved on to the next train we needed for the theater. When we got to the station we asked the service desk, Sprechen Sie Englisch? And he flat out told us no. So we kept walking around observing what everyone else was doing. On our second lap there was a new young guy at the service desk who pointed us in the right direction. Of course we went to buy a ticket it was another communication barrier. We told a gal that she could go before us because we were confused and she walked away after pushing some buttons and set up a ticket for us. So we added one more and were off. Of course once we had tickets in hand there was no one collecting tickets for the train on platform 4 so we hopped on the train anyhow, after 2 stops we got off and started walking to find the theater.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">There was lots of graffiti all over Berlin, some was quite good and interesting.</td></tr>
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This time before we left we wrote down the name and address of the theater so if we needed to ask the locals we didn't have to try to pronounce the name we could show them and it worked out quite well. After one block we decided to ask someone because we didn't want to walk to far in the wrong direction. I asked a gal in a local shop and showed her, and in fact we were going in the wrong direction. We thanked her and started heading towards the theater. On the way we crossed over a bridge with all these locks on it. I had read about it in my travel book it was to signify your relationship and all the locks had names and dates and hearts on them. It was pretty neat. Over the bridge we found the theater. We went in to pick up our tickets at the box office but had a couple hours before the show started yet. We decided to walk around the city streets and see some of the local way of life. After walking around for a while we still had time to kill so we went back to the train station to a gelato shop. We each tried two flavors, Adam tried hazelnut and cookie and I tried tiramisu and mango. It was very good! After the treat we walked back to the theater.</div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Our tickets were upstairs after we found where we were to go in we grabbed a couple of drinks and when ordering our drinks the bar tender had been to the states and had actually been to Minneapolis and Milwaukee! It was nice to find a local who knew what we were saying and that we could chat with for a little while. When it was time to go into the theater we found our seats easily and sat down. The show started and it was beautiful. It was a cirque du soleil type show. The first half was a little slower, slower music more pretty dancing and such. Adam and were sort of barley holding on staying awake, how terrible right? But they were practically singing us a lullaby. Just before the intermission there was an act with lighted up almost motorcycle suits and helmets on the dancers that was fun and got us back on track. When the intermission was over the rest of the acts were more up beat and just amazing to watch. That was more like it for us. The center of the stage dropped out and was replaced with a circle of water. After that there were a series of acts that used the water. One was sort of synchronized swimming another was a male group dancing in shallow water sort of stomping and slapping the water as they danced. The act we liked best was a couple who did a trapeze type act from the very top middle of the stage. It was crazy good. It's hard to describe the way he swung her and caught her again but a lot of that type of thing that makes you pray he catches her. The show was a fun thing to do at night in Berlin we were happy we got to do it. After the show we headed back to the train station and caught the connecting tram and were on our way back to the hotel. We were glad to kick off our shoes and eat a snack and go to bed. We also heard another phrase by the locals that night when asking, </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> Sprechen Sie Englisch.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> Their reply was "of course" which was funny and quite opposite of the other reply, "a little bit". It was weird that these people</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> that say, of course, say it like well yes everyone can.</span><br />
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Kathleenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17183869365353830495noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2334412077357959802.post-64934880601399607722013-04-15T17:08:00.000-05:002013-04-15T17:08:50.120-05:008 hour flight, 1 hour flight, and a rental car later.<br />
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The morning started with cinnamon rolls, a tradition in our house for eventful mornings, Christmas is the big one. Today seemed like it called for cinnamon rolls. It was the last family breakfast for quite a few days, and it was perfect. The four of us huddled around our living room coffee table eating cinnamon rolls, and us laughing at the kids and how they devoured their breakfast treat. Then it was time to start frantically loading the car to drop the kids off for the longest time we have ever left them. Even with all the excitement behind traveling to Germany, we left our hearts in WI with our little crazy head, Levi and sweet Avery pie. With big squeezes and lots of kisses it was time for us to start our journey. The first of many steps was a drive to somewhere familiar, Milwaukee, but that's were anything familiar ends.<br />
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Hoping on the bus to Chicago we took in part of a Luther movie, very appropriate considering many towns in the movie we will be visiting on our own little trip to Luther Land. The ride went very quickly, we didn't even finish the movie and we were at O'hare. After a couple scans of our passports, our shoes, our bags, our bodies, and a retina scan (okay,kidding about the last one) we were through security and ready to wait. We grabbed some hot dogs for lunch, what else would you get in Chicago right, and boarded the plane. First we finished up our Luther movie and then we each watched our own choice of movie on the screens on the chair backs in front of us. An in-flight meal was served and we tried to get some rest. Unfortunately for us, more myself then Adam, we were seated next to a man that had very horrible breath. He also had the isle seat so we were trapped. Somehow we survived the 8 hour flight and arrived in Frankfurt. As we were walking around we were not used to seeing English as the language second, listed below the main language. Adam used a kiosk to scan our boarding pass for our connection to Berlin and had to push the English flag button it just felt weird.</div>
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Kathleenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17183869365353830495noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2334412077357959802.post-83781928033289835122013-03-08T15:49:00.000-06:002013-03-08T15:52:51.505-06:00Can you say OZ SUPER FAN?!?!<div style="text-align: center;">
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Have you ever seen inspired looks before? Where people take regular cloths and mix and match them to resemble a character. I have seen a lot of them for Disney characters and they are so darn adorable, a way to look like your favorite character but also look like an adult, not a 5 year old in your princess costume. Although if I could get away with it I just might do that too!</div>
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When the movie night started coming closer I was thinking of creating an inspired look for Oz! I starting doing a little research and found the new <a href="http://www.hsn.com/content/Oz/49">Oz collection from HSN</a>. </div>
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Which is seriously amazing but a little to rich for my blood. ;)</div>
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So I took the ideas of the HSN Oz collection and starting searching for similar pieces on Amazon and Khol's. I found some really cute look a like stuff but I was feeling kinda guilty spending money on a movie premier outfit, I mean who am I, certainly not Michelle Williams or Mila Kunis! So while it was fun to window shop I decided to give it up. </div>
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Of course with the movie release it just got my Oz geek side going and I was looking at Oz stuff all over the web. Then I came across something seriously awesome!</div>
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I mean only seriouse Oz fans would have 'em.</div>
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And only the crafty Oz fan's would make 'em instead of buy 'em for $85 from an Esty shop.</div>
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Well, I happen to be both!</div>
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So here is my stand out piece that I can wear to the movie tonight, it's not a whole inspired outfit but I happen to think it is better then all that, not to mention cheaper. </div>
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I had all the supplies on hand and got to work!</div>
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The parenting milestone I never thought I would get to, at least not this fast, taking my Avery on a field trip to the fire station! </div>
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This is sparky, the fire dog. After the kids watched a Sesame Street video about fire fighters and fire stations he sang the kids a couple songs. One was about what to do if you find matches or a lighter, another of course was about STOP, DROP, & ROLL. Then the kids got to practice it as well. Avery was a little shy as she always is in new unfamiliar situations, I was proud of her that she still did it.</div>
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Here she is getting a little encouragement from her teacher.</div>
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And then she did it, STOP, DROP & ROLL!!!</div>
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He also showed the kids his air tank and how they bring there own air to the fires with them. He also used a Darth Vader reference for what it sounds like when he is breathing in the air from the tank, funny how 90% of the kids have no clue yet who Darth Vader is, makes a Mom feel old.</div>
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They did it a few times and by the last time they all were nice and loud. Of course they talked about fire alarms, and having a fire plan, then the kids got to go out to the fire trucks!</div>
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Anyone who knows Avery know she is just like her Mom, she can't get enough of the craft supplies. We want it all, pink & sparkly, ribbons & stickers, stamps & paper, watercolors & paintbrushes. When she is older I can see us spending some serious cash-O-la at Hobby Lobby. So it surprised me the other night when the artist that decided to beautify my house was actually not her.<br />
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Can you really call it spring cleaning in the first week of February? </div>
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Well, that's what I'm calling it I guess. Early spring cleaning.</div>
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Yesterday I started in on my kitchen. I got these wine glass racks for Christmas from my in-laws (Thanks!) and I was getting ready to make an improvement and get 'em hung up.</div>
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Last weekend we celebrated Levi's 2nd, birthday. Today is his actual birthday so I thought today would be the perfect day to blog about his party. Well to start with nothing was going right, first Avery was sick, Levi had a cough, and then Avery gave me whatever it was that she had. At first I didn't know how I was going to pull it off. But I did, and I think everyone especially Levi had a good time.</div>
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ELMO! Elmo heard it was Levi's birthday and stopped in to say Happy Birthday!</div>
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Poor Elmo he must have had a rough journey to our house, he looks a little run down. ;) And I'm afraid it didn't get much better for Elmo, all the kids were afraid of him!</div>
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Ian proved to all the little's that it was okay, see Elmo is nice.</div>
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That all just wasn't enough for Levi, he was not happy that Elmo showed up to crash his party. So we sent Elmo packing, back to Sesame Street for you Elmo.</div>
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All he wanted was the toy on top.</div>
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Good food, good cake, great friends & family to celebrate our little man's 2nd birthday, what more could you ask for.</div>
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Well first he's not two yet, and I guess if he's gonna be two he's not really a baby.</div>
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I say things to Avery like, he's just a baby he doesn't understand, or "Avery, I'm going to put the baby down for a nap". Every Mom says no matter how old you are you will always be my baby but now that he is approaching 2 years old it really hit me how much I call him my baby or the baby. Avery promptly corrects me if I affectionately call her my baby, but my little Levi still let's me so I will as long as he does.</div>
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Here are my baby Levi's 2 year pictures that I took the other day, thanks to a friend who let me use her photography space, <b>big</b>, <b>huge</b> thanks to her!</div>
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Kathleenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17183869365353830495noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2334412077357959802.post-54214702095302435182013-01-11T13:22:00.002-06:002013-01-11T13:23:22.182-06:002013<div style="text-align: center;">
When the new year comes most people make their new year resolutions, and I am no different. This year I thought about it for a while though. I wanted not to just say I want to lose weight, and keep my house clean and organize our storage room (yikes) but I was thinking about things that would make me happy. While if I actually accomplished the above ideas I would be happy but I would be happier if the things I tried to do really made me truly happy on the inside, not just the outside. So here is my new year resolution list.</div>
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<b>Feel good in the cloths I am in, & embrace my inner fashionista!</b></div>
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Yea, I know that sounds a lot like losing weight but it is more about feeling good about my self in the cloths that I wear. I have been struggling for a while with dressing for my mid 20's (before you laugh...) because I feel like some things are too old, and some cloths are too young. I feel like it's hard to find exactly what <i style="font-weight: bold;">I'm</i> looking for. But along with feeling good in my cloths I want to jump out of the box more, and not say I can't wear skinny jeans cuz I'm too short, or I can't wear colored pants cuz I'm a Mom, try everything (without spending a million dollars either) because you don't know if you don't try.</div>
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<b>Blog MORE!</b></div>
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I really want to try to dedicate more time to blogging. At first when the hubs started this blog I was scared to post to it. It took me a while to give it a try, and what happened when I did.... I liked it! I admire those blogs that have "Pintrest Friday" and "Wordless Wednesdays" or "Recipe Tuesday" I want to try to amp it up over here at Life with the Z's, because I have found that I really enjoy it!</div>
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<b>Get better at Birthday Cards, Anniversary Cards, & Thank You Cards!</b></div>
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I stink at this! Like pathetically bad, especially for a lady that stamps her own cards... When I get cards in the mail from people who thought of me for my birthday or our anniversary it makes me feel good, and I want to pass that feel good on to the people I love and care about in my life.</div>
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<b>Actually finish something!</b></div>
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Hmm, I could take up pages of a note book of all the started projects. To name a few, a gutted piano sitting in my living room, felt busy books for the kids that have lots of pieces cut but nothing sewn together, ton's of cloths for the kids that I want to repurpose into something new, digital scrapbooking, and real life scrapbooking.... you get the idea. I really want to try and get some of these things done so instead of having grand ideas, I have awesome finished projects. :)</div>
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<b>Continue to OWN IT as a stay at home Mom!</b></div>
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There are times that it is easy to get caught up in the idea that all I do is clean up after everyone (lets be clear, my house is not spotless, it's not that I spend every waking moment cleaning up after people but if your a Mom you know what I mean) or make dinner, or wash cloths. And It is true that all of those are part of what I do, it is hard to not think of yourself as a maid (okay, maybe a little dramatic but really...) and that you don't hold any important job. I struggled with that a whole lot my first year home, I was used to making money, making people feel beautiful after they stopped in at my stylist chair, and it was a hard transition. But more and more I have learned that I am doing the most important thing that I can't be doing right now for my husband and kids.</div>
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<b>I'm a wanna be photographer!</b></div>
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True. I wish I could spend lots of money on fancy photography equipment and spend more time learning and experimenting with photography. That's not real life for me, but I do want to keep learning and experimenting when I have time, because I have found a new love for it over the past few years and I want to keep it up. Who know's maybe one day down the road it will turn into something more.</div>
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<b>Bring myself closer to the Word of God!</b></div>
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In the last couple years there have been some changes in my life that I could not have made it through with out the Word of God. I find myself leaning on God almost every single day, and I wouldn't have it any other way. I want to continue to grow my relationship with God, and to learn more of the truths He has for me.</div>
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That's it, not too hard right?! </div>
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Alright, I'm off to try on new cloths, send out a birthday card, finish sewing something, while reading my Bible, then take a pictures of it and shout from my roof, hey I am a stay at home Mom, and then I'll be back to blog about it, OK?!?!</div>
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Cheers to 2013!!!</div>
Kathleenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17183869365353830495noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2334412077357959802.post-31282563778829694332013-01-01T11:26:00.000-06:002013-01-01T11:27:19.673-06:00Winter Wonderland<div style="text-align: center;">
Last week Levi and I traveled to WY to see his first cousin and my first nephew Corban! We just barley made it out of WI and the snow started coming down like crazy. We're talking serious snow! Adam sent me some picture messages of the craziness going on back home but when I got to see it myself on our drive to church Christmas day it was really beautiful to look at. The last huge snow storm we had here was when Mr.Levi was born. And with a newborn I wasn't exactly up for taking in the sights of snow. The way the snow collected on the trees and covered everything with sparkling beauty in white made me want to get out my camera and go for a drive. So that is just what I did this last Sunday.</div>
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Hope you enjoy this photos of our winter wonderland in WI!</div>
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Well here's the thing. I started my own blog, and linked it over here but I just don't have it in me apparently to post to two blogs. I will just label my posts over here Hairbrained Ideas, and that will be that. Still a little slice of the web to post my creations but not the pressure (so much pressure, ahhh) of my own blog. </div>
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With that said, here is my first creation to be posted.</div>
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We were gifted this gorgeous dress from another manager my husband worked with when Miss. Avery was born. It also has a beautiful red winter coat to go with. Back then I couldn't have imagined the day it would have actually fit her, but this Christmas was it! A dress like this doesn't need much, who am I kidding anything, extra but I just had this vision of a beautiful poinsettia flower in her hair.</div>
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On a trip to Wally one day I was on the hunt for supplies. The hair clips, and bundle of flowers cost me $2.25!</div>
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First I plucked apart the bundle of flowers and combined together the four flowers into two to make the flower a bit more full. I had some red ribbon at home and hot glued it around the clip.</div>
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Then hot glued the flower layers to the red ribbon hair clip. I didn't like the stuff that was in the middle of the flowers originally (don't know what it's called), so I replaced it with a large clump of sparkling yellow beads.</div>
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I squeezed out a large dot of hot glue and mounded on the beads, and added a little more glue and repeated.</div>
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I loved how it turned out and I ended up with a hair flower for Miss. Avery and one to share!</div>
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I was playing around with these fake poinsettia flowers I got at Wally yesturday (I'll post later what I am doing with them) and Levi walks in the dinning room holding my coffee cup.</div>
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Without a moments pause he tips it up like he's just casually getting his morning pick me up.</div>
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I see a little brown coffee on his undershirt, so I opened up his jammies and BAM!, it's like a flood of coffee! </div>
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And what happens you ask, when you take away the coffee cup and start cleaning up the little monster?</div>
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He pitches a fit! :)</div>
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No, we didn't go to the pumpkin farm twice. I just thought I would share more!</div>
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Well if you know Levi at all by now he just goes where his little heart and feet lead him. He would have kept walking if we didn't stop him. He has no fear of not knowing where I am, he just doesn't care. Which scares me to death. Funny how that works though, because at home if he doesn't know where I am he freaks out. What's up with that?! Anyway.</div>
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Then there was the pictures we tried to take, here is just an example of how it all really went down.</div>
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After we had bugged the kids enough with, "SMILE", "HOLD STILL", "LOOK AT JEN"...</div>
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Pumpkin heaven!</div>
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Levi really tried to put his foot down. I actually think this picture is hilarious, he really blends in with his cameo and hunting orange.</div>
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Seriously those birds freak me out. Something about those taller then me, faster then me animals with beady little eyes just freak me out. I don't even like being directly on the other side of the fence from one, so I was happy to take this picture from a far. </div>
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I am just glad their Dad is an ol' farm boy from back in the day, he handles them in these sort of "Mom is freaked out by the giant bird" moments. ;)</div>
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This last week we went to the pumpkin farm with our long time friends Ian and Jennifer. We decided we were going to take a family picture of each other, and have some fun too.</div>
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Here's the thing, I will look at this picture 10 years from now and remember my wiggly, crazy, uncooperative kids and laugh. I guess it doesn't matter how you make memories, just that you do!<br />
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Kathleenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17183869365353830495noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2334412077357959802.post-41326427803530176672012-10-10T14:04:00.001-05:002012-10-10T14:10:15.013-05:00Green and Yellow, Green and Yellow<div style="text-align: center;">
Adam and I were lucky enough to be able to attend a regular season Packer game against the Saints on September 30th, during some pretty great Wisconsin weather! We also got to see Samantha when we were up there, let's just say we "Packerized" her for the day.</div>
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There were so many people it was one giant Packer party outside. I had never been to a regular season game before so I had no idea what to expect. There were quite a few of these "Packered Out" vehicles.<br />
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Avery came along with us to Green Bay and walked around with us and Auntie Sam until it was time for us to go into the stadium. Then Avery and Auntie Sam went to go have some fun of their own.<br />
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A big huge thank you to Samantha for watching Avery!<br />
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But where is Levi? We left him with Herman, those two are like two peas and a pod, snuggling in Herman's cage.<br />
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Levi, that lucky duck, got to spend the day with Grandma Z, Uncle Nathan, and Papa. And the evening and overnight with Nana. We got these pic's from them when we were at the game. :)<br />
A big huge thank you to them too! Without everyone helping watch our kiddo's we couldn't have gone. You guys rock!<br />
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The energy there was so awesome! I think it might be my favorite way to watch the Packers! How many years long is the season ticket waiting list again... ;)<br />
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We had such a great time! It was nice to spend some time without the littles. I love 'em but a little time away is refreshing and helps you recharge. Being at Lambeau for a Packer win doesn't hurt either!</div>
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Junior Prom<br />
Spring of 2003.<br />
"Dreaming of You"<br />
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5 years of marriage.</div>
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260 weeks, 1825 days,</div>
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2 homes, 2 kids, 1 dog,</div>
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A Packer Super Bowl win,</div>
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I love looking back at the life we have built together, and can't wait for what the future has in store for us.<br />
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Kathleenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17183869365353830495noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2334412077357959802.post-32246099225396286672012-09-27T13:34:00.000-05:002012-09-27T13:36:42.888-05:00Monster Cookies<div style="text-align: center;">
A friend of mine always gets the kids something yummy or makes them something yummy whenever we get together. She is way to good to them! They love it, I mean looooove it! The last treat she brought them was probably their favorite yet!</div>
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Yes, that is a bite of Avery's dinner still in her mouth. We put her dessert right in front of her, and told her she had to finish that bite if she wanted to have the Monster Cookie! We are so mean aren't we?!</div>
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And it didn't take Avery long to get that bite of dinner down so she could move on to this so tasty and adorable treat! Amazing how dessert motivation can work on a kid hey? </div>
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Today Avery had her very first school pictures.</div>
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Her teacher had suggested that if you could be there to help direct them that it would be helpful.</div>
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So I went, and lets just say it was interesting. I line of toddlers having to wait their turn is enough for mass chaos, but then having them have to sit still in this huge set up was really a whole other thing as well. Most of the kids did well, to my surprise, and there were a few melt downs due to being afraid of the set up. So really it wasn't too bad. I had a hard time getting Avery to sit still and to not give me the "cheesy, I'm smiling because Mom told me to smile". But like I said all in all not bad, and I am sure the photo will be cute and someday it will bring me back to that time in her life and I will laugh at how cute her cheesy smile was.</div>
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I mean, Avery was all prettied up already and it was a really nice day today.</div>
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And so I decided that today was the day that I was going to take Levi's 18 month pictures and Avery's 3 year pictures.</div>
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Avery did fairly well, I just had to try and find the "real" smile I know is hiding in there. Levi did okay too. He is definitely a stubborn child (they all have their moments anyway) and considering it can be hard to get him to do anything he doesn't want to do, and considering they both were very tired, I was happy to get a few adorable pictures of my babies. </div>
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Yup, those are my silly babies. They both passed out in the car. Avery didn't really nap when we got home, but Levi is waking up as I finish this blog post. :)</div>
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We got an opportunity to upgrade our piano. Neither of us play but we are hoping that one day our kids will. Who am I kidding it won't really be an option for them actually, but that's beside the point. Our old piano was a craigslist freebie find. The family that owned it before us were moving and couldn't take it with them. They started their own renovation but I am quite sure this was not what they had in mind.</div>
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She was quite happy to do so as you can see. That helped us detach the front of the piano completely.</div>
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She also helped Papa with some very large blots holding the giant back metal piece that had a large part with the strings.</div>
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Today everyone around here is not at their best health wise. It could be a lot worse but the kids are coughing and have yucky noses, and I feel like I have a helium balloon where my head should be. So today is without a doubt a lazy day. </div>
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Yup, lazy day, watching Monster's Inc. currently, next up Nomeo and Juliet. Sorry, no picture of me in all my lazy glory. Your welcome. ;)</div>
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Big Bird's beak from a foam puzzle just chilling in the back of the dryer. At first I sorta chuckled a bit about it, but then I was just thankful that it didn't ruin all of Adam's shirts, especially seeing he just bought 6 new Walmart ones. I'm just not surprised... I've come to learn that is life with kids. Like about a month and a half ago when Levi put Wheat Thins in the disc drive of Adam's PS3. Guess I need to take an extra look in the dryer and make sure the next time it isn't crayons or something. </div>
Kathleenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17183869365353830495noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2334412077357959802.post-60309090684815035082012-08-31T21:40:00.002-05:002012-08-31T21:41:29.160-05:00Puppy Levi<div style="text-align: center;">
Usually Avery is the one around here playing puppy. But on this day Levi must have decided he wanted to join in on the puppy fun. We were playing outside and Levi brought in with him a short, fat little stick. I didn't think anything of it. I thought, I'll let him play with it for a little while and as soon as it causes problems I'll toss it back outside. Then I turned around and this is what I saw...</div>
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Avery has been waiting all summer for school to start. She has been so excited, in fact that was the only motivation that was good enough to get her potty trained. Whatever works, right?! We bought her a backpack and a new pair of shoes, there was nothing left but to go to school!</div>
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Yup, all ready for school!</div>
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I asked her last night what she wanted to be when she grows up and she said, "I wanna be a big girl, and go potty on the big girl toilet, and wash my hands, and brush my teeth." Perfect Avery, just perfect! :)</div>
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When we got to school we found her hook for her backpack, and put her gym shoes in her cubby, and Avery raced in to the classroom with out looking back. She was so busy playing at a rice table and barley paused to give us each a kiss goodbye. There was nothing left but for us to get back in the van and head home. Adam and I were doing fine, but then... I read this sweet poem that her teacher gave to us.</div>
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Come on people, your a robot if that doesn't tug at your heart strings. So we did have a few tears between us, but not because we were scared or sad, but because we are so proud of our little girl, and how big she is getting.</div>
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Avery- Mommy and Daddy love you more then you know, and are so proud of you! Hope you have a great day at school. I can't wait to hear all about it over an after school snack!<br />
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Yup, that is my little Avery fresh out of the oven. ;)</div>
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When people tell you it goes so fast, you sort of know but really your thinking, "I don't think diaper changing, projectile vomit, being up all hours of the night, and explosive/ up the back and out the side of the diaper poop can go fast enough for me!" Well, I think we have hit the magical age when you realize so much has changed in such a short period of time.</div>
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Now she wants to do it all by herself, and is doing and talking so much and potty trained even, she is a big girl now! **She reminds us all the time too!**</div>
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Even though her actual party wasn't today, we did a mini celebration with just the four of us. I pick up two jumbo sized cupcakes (from a store that I am not really allowed to shop at if you catch my drift) and we shared them! We sang to Avery, and she blew out her candle.</div>
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That was the other thing, this was the first year that she blew out her candle all by herself and looked as if though she was a pro at it. Really pulled at my heart strings.</div>
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And of course the best part, EATING IT!!!</div>
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Happy Birthday Avery!!!</div>
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We are so blessed to have such a smart, beautiful, loving little girl, we love you to pieces!!!</div>Kathleenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17183869365353830495noreply@blogger.com2