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Friday night right before I went to bed I felt a couple very mild contractions. They were not at all painful and I didn't think much of it before going to bed.On Saturday morning I woke up around 9 and got ready to head over to my mom and dad's house. My sisters and their kids were going to all get together for some playtime and lunch since it had been a few weeks since we'd all been able to

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Natalie's 3-year photos!! Such a big girl :)

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My poor neglected blog!! I seem to have forgotten about you....let's see if we can play catch-up quick, shall we?Back on June 18th Natalie turned the big 3! We had a Garden Fairy theme, which was so much fun to decorate and prepare for. She had a blast!!About a week before her third birthday I finally broke down and brought her in for her first haircut. She did very well and didn't move a muscle

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On January 20th 2011 I had a flash back to September 25, 2007. Just seconds after I peed on that little white stick two pink lines popped up. Both times my first thought was "oh wow, yay!", which quickly turned to "oh my gosh, what did we just do? i can't do this, take it back, take it back!"We're going to have another baby! Natalie is going to be a big sister!This time around has been much

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Wintertime is my lametime. I don't enjoy it very much, and I'm looking forward to Spring like I never have before!It just can't come soon enough...but we did get a glimpse of it last week--a few days of 40 degree weather, it felt like Heaven! We were even able to go for walks. Walks! It was really amazing to see the change in everyones attitudes, especially Natalies. She was so very happy to

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Back in the day it used to take me an afternoon to put the tree up, decorate it and the house. New (much larger) house + a 2.5 year old = an entire week to get the job done. I tried to get Natalie to help with decorating the tree but she was completely uninterested. Maybe next year.

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i finished natalie's play kitchen! my mom found this entertainment unit at a garage sale for $5 back in July.i sanded it, primed itpainted it, added some doors and bam, a play kitchen!I was planning on making the space next to the sink the stove, but I found this wood stove/oven at savers for $6!After looking it up online it looks like it was only sold in England and Australia?! It was the wrong

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...oh how i love you!....

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Last friday was natalie's second birthday...or "happy day" as she says. take a trip with me down memory lane, wont' you?13 weeks pregnant40 weeks pregnant, on my due date (she didn't come for another 16! days)finally!1 monthfirst trip to the lake home (8 weeks)3 monthswith her buddy sebi. they were born 4 days apart!one year15 months at the lake16 months18 months20 months21 months22 months2 years

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we had our open house party yesterday afternoon. it was a lot of work, but it was also a lot of fun...until natalie hit her wall around 5:00 and wanted everyone OUT. she calmed down around 6 when everyone but some of our bestest friends left. the kids (with the exception of our own angel) were SO well behaved, they just quietly played together for hours. I hope natalie was taking notes.even

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natalie's room pretty much looks the same as it did in the old house, just with more space. she seems happy with it.

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our new kitchen is so very different from our old one. it's about a million times bigger and it's not white! never again will i ever have a white kitchen. i loved the look of it but it was so hard to keep clean. now our cabinets are dark so we can be as messy as we'd like and it just blends in. score.

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as we've been unpacking i've been trying to take photos of rooms as they get "finished". I put finished in quotes because when is a room ever finished? we're still in the process of getting art hung on our walls, and curtains put up, but for the most part furniture is where it will be. i'll post more as things come together, but here are a few...play roomplay room looking into tv roomtv room

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never again do i want to move! it seems like everything that could have gone wrong in the few weeks before our move went wrong. not only that but we just had so many other things going on in our lives. i felt like i was just barely holding it together!let's go back a few months, shall we?all winter long we had been casually checking out the MLS to see if anything had popped up that we might be

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never did i ever think i'd live in po-dunk carver! but here we are, all moved into our forever dream house. we are slowly but surely getting unpacked, finding homes for all our things, and making this house our own. it will be a long process getting there, but one day we'll be able to take a look around and all the bedrooms, bathrooms and closets will have doors on them, all our exterior doors

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we have a new nephew!early saturday morning our phones started ringing. andy finally picked up (i was sleeping off my long week with a sick baby) and handed me the phone. i was half asleep but when i heard my sister say "i had a baby" i woke up! i had just talked to her a few hours before and there was no sign of a baby coming anytime soon (well, except for you know, the big belly and the baby

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watch the movie to see who won!

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Giveaway #2 is here!!!This time it is for another wallet. To enter to win, just leave me a comment (all you have to do is say "enter" or whatever, it doesn't need to be anything fancy; but please one entry per person).I have three that you can choose from..I will randomly choose a winner one week from today.Go!

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When natalie was 2 weeks old i took a photo of her with this pig bear thing. On the eighteenth of each consecutive month (or as close to it as I remembered to) I took a photo of her with the stuffie. I haven't taken one of her with it since she turned one, so last month, when she turned 18 months, I took another one. I want to try to take her photo with it on her birthday every year. Here's a

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natalie had quite the christmas themed wardrobe this year. earlier this fall we were in the habit of going to savers on a regular basis, and I had found this super cute fleece hooded santa jacket in natalie's size. It looked like it had never been worn, but at $4.99 it was too rich for our blood. Something about spending that "much" money on an article of baby clothing from savers, seasonal at

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So as i mentioned earlier, this year i decided that i would make as many christmas gifts as time and my sanity would allow. now that the gifts have all been handed out, here's what i spent my past 1.5 months or so making...3 pairs of flannel pants for my mom and sistersi spy bags for natalie (to grow into) and our 2 nieces2 appliqued photo albums made out of recycled wool sweater scraps for my

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I have a lot of catching up to do; I've been so busy making Christmas presents that I haven't had much spare time on my hands. Over the next few days I'll be posting what I've been up to.For today though, I'm just going to share some photos from this past weekends' annual cookie day. It's getting more interesting trying to make zillions of cookies with three little ones running around. But we

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I had random.org generate me a number 1-8. And the winner is.........Entry number four, which is The Goodfella's! Jenny, I'm guessing that was you and not Matt!? ;o) e-mail me at jennakrueger [at] gmail [dot] com and we'll work out the details.Congratulations!!And to everyone else, you never know when I'm going to do another giveaway.......

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I'm going to do my first giveaway so stick around; details will be at the end of this post!I've always loved to make gifts for people, but I also love to shop, so usually I buy most of my Christmas presents. But this year I think I'm going to make most of them. I can't give up shopping completely, so there will be some of that as well, but for the most part everyone's gonna get something handmade

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our little hungry caterpillar from last year turned into a cute fairy baby for halloween this year. here she is trying on her costume for the first time. she really didn't mind it at all which surprised me.Natalie helped andy carve a pumpkin. she was very excited. she didn't actually get her hands dirty, but rather spent most of the time walking around. Something inside of her clicked over the

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Nadia, 3.5 years; Anika 23 months and Natalie 15.5 months

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.......and on that note, we're supposedly getting another offer on the house tonight. we'll see how this one materializes.

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As it was, we were supposed to close on the sale of our house today. Way back in July when we got the offer the buyers requested September 25th as the date for closing. As it is today, we're back on the market and showing the house once again. It is disappointing, I'm not going to lie, but then there are the positive aspects. -We don't have to pack up and, well, move-We didn't find a house and

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i finally got around to taking a (shoddy) photo of the longies that i knit for natalie for this fall/winterthe middle pair are the ones that i dyed with kool-aid (my first attempt).here is the yarn that i just dyed on friday, starting to take shapei don't think i rinsed it well enough because it still smells like kool-aid. heh. actually, it's more of a pez-y smell than kool-aid. strange.and i

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i've been experimenting with dying yarn. for a beginner the best way to try it out is with good ole kool-aid. i don't want to invest a ton of money into it because my knitting skills aren't all that great, so i decided to just stick with basic wool yarn from joann's. This is the second time i've dyed, but the first time i only used 3 colors. (that yarn is just about finished being made into a

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last weekend we went to the lake and on the way we stopped at andy's parent's new house. Besides the fact that we came home a day and a half early because i came down with the swine, it was a fun trip.

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i haven't been sewing as much this summer as i'd like with the house being on the market. it seems like every time i pull everything out to start on a new project we get a request for a showing. it's just easier to leave it all packed away. so instead i've been doing a lot more knitting lately. but here are some of my sewing projects that i have completed. these are all from earlier in the

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it was a really great day!

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I've been having a ton of fun with my new sewing machine. I'm bound and determined to get my money's worth out of it, so I have LOTS of stuff to make. Here are some of the things I've made over the past week and a half:Back row, from left to right: Pajama pants for Natalie which are way too big, so they've moved to the next-biggest sister cousin for now. 3 fleece diaper covers 1 knit diaper cover

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on mother's day andy surprised me with a "coupon" to pick out a new sewing machine. the one i've been working on is a borrowed machine and is one small step up from the $20 toy machine that i got from sears as a child. after lots of research and a few test drives i decided on the viking husqvarna emerald 183.isn't she beautiful? my mom bought a viking when i was a baby, and it's still going

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i've been having fun sewing up lots of different things. clockwise from top left:-purse from amy butler belle coriander in pink-purse and matching wallet. these were my practice pieces, so they're far from perfect, and made from scraps.-3 fitted diapers with snap closure and cotton velour inners & knit/thermal outers (more photos below)-cupcake pin cushion made from recycled felted

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There are many things in this world that i love. my husband, my baby, my dog (usually), my family, the sun, pickles, sewing...but I just discovered my newest love this week.Coborn's Delivery.It's amazing. You order your groceries online, and the next day they appear at your doorstep!!! No hauling ass to the mart, no dealing with crabby grocery store workers, nadda. It's a beautiful thing. We

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This morning, as I changed natalie out of her nighttime diaper and into a clean one, I felt a great sense of accomplishment at what i was changing her into.Over the past several weeks i've been working on perfecting the perfect cloth diaper for my little girl. My first couple tries looked something like this:Not terrible, but not the greatest either. I didn't use anything fancy for the first

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...i made you something!

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It seems like every day Ellie does something new. Here are just a few.One day, about a month ago I put her under her under the sea play gym and went into the kitchen to do the dishes. About a minute later I hear her laughing (about the best sound in the world, by the way) and I come back into the living room to see that she had scooted herself about seven feet away from where I had plunked her

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I can barely believe that today marks my baby's seven monthiversary.She has us in constant awe of her. She is the most amazingly happy, content baby ever, and we're so lucky because she is OURS!!! As I type this, she is upstairs with her daddy jumping around in her exersaucer, yelling, laughing and talking. Every now and then she'll blow a raspberry just to shake it up a bit.Lately, her favorite

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$4,000.02That is what we ended up paying for pre-natal care and the hospital stay for the birth of our baby. We finally received the last of the bills from the clinic and it's all paid off. Whew. I feel very relieved that it is taken care of, and have to say that when compared to the original $14,000+ that the hospital was going to charge us (this is the problem we ran into when dealing with an

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This past Sunday our baby girl was Baptized. She did so very well, every was asking "is she always this good!?". Well, yes. Most of the time. Except when she's tired. Or hungry. Or bored. Or hot. Or cold. Honestly, she's a really great baby for the most part, but of course she has her moments.Anyways, my mom Natalie's gown and it turned out just perfectly.And now our baby will get into Heaven.

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So if you recall, my original estimated due date was June 2nd. Our baby was born on June 18th. That's right, sixteen days later. The longest sixteen days of my life. Those sixteen days took longer to pass by than the entire previous 40 weeks.Short of drinking castor oil, which I was vehemently opposed to doing, I tried everything in the world to encourage labor. All the old wives' tales, walking,

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a lot has changed in the past 3 months!Our little girl made her arrival on June 18th at 11:23 pm, after 14.5 hours of labor. She was 16 days overdue, and I had to be induced. She just did not want to come out!We came home a day and a half later, and it's just been an amazing experience. The first few weeks went by so very slowly, but since we hit 5 or 6 weeks, they've started to fly by. Natalie

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....but if you want to see photos and be notified when the little one makes her appearance, leave me a comment and I'll add you to our list. The hospital has wi-fi and we'll have the lap top with us, so as long as everything goes at "planned", we should be able to send out an e-mail and photos soon after.Any day now................

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With the 3rd 'stravaganza quickly approaching, and the pending arrival of our first child, I think it's safe to say that if we ever want to have another child or have another craft fair, we should not do them simultaneously! They're both very exciting, but equally as stressful events on their own, but to have my due date so close to the date of the fair has been nothing short of complicated. Add

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We just love them so much! I can't imagine what it's going to be like when our little one makes her arrival! Is it possible to love a baby more than we love our nieces?...and one to grow on (30 weeks!!)...

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So it seems that we'll be adding another "sister cousin" to the pack. Last Friday we found out that the sweet potato-sized 12 ounce baby growing inside of me is a girl!It'll be pretty fun to have 3 girls born to 3 sisters in 2 years. Plus, look at how cute she is already!That's her little hand up there, and she's sucking in her bottom lip.Here she's got her mouth open and you can see that she's

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I'm SURE you're on the edge of your seat wondering how the aprons I made for my sisters & nieces went over. Well, they loved them! Between the fussy newborn and camera-hating one-and-a-half year old, our group shots didn't turn out so well. But here's the littlest one enjoying her first "cookie day". She was most excited of all.For some reason we ended up buying a fake tree this year. We went to

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Last night Andy and I graduated from our police class. Whew. Although we're glad we participated in the St. Paul Citizens Police Academy, we're both very glad to be done with it. We now have our Wednesdays nights back.We each got a snazzy SPPD 15th CPA t-shirt embroidered with our name (although Andy almost didn't get his as some woman tried to swipe it as hers--apparently she thought they were "

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I think Andy would classify this as Kountry Krafts, but I think they're cute anyways.This weekend is "cookie day" with my mom & sisters at my parents' house, and I thought it would be fun to make everyone Christmas-y aprons. I got the idea Friday night and I finished them up last night since House was a re-run (lame!). I'm going to make a tiny one for our 1.5 year old niece, and an even tinier

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Wanna keep the snow away? Buy a snowblower!2 weekends ago we got 5 or 6 inches of snow, so our lovely Saturday was spent shoveling. 2 days later we got another 3 inches. They were predicting that we were going to get 2 more inches the next day, and another 5 or 6 inches last weekend. So.......we bought a snowblower. Since it found its way into our garage, do you thing we've gotten a single

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Monday was my grandmother's funeral. It was also the day of our newest niece's birth.After the world's worst pregnancy (she had hyperemesis gravidarum through her entire pregnancy), my sister experienced the world's worst birth (probably not, but it was pretty terrible, and I was there for the entire thing). She was in hard labor for 40 hours, her epidural didn't work but instead gave her a

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My sister is due to have a baby girl in about 3 weeks, so last weekend I had a shower for her. We had 3 grandmas, 1 great-grandma, a couple of babies and about a million and one gifts. It was a complete madhouse from beginning to end, but she had a good time and got lots of great loot, so it was totally worth it. We're still trying to get the house back in order almost a week later. Whew!

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MAPLE TOWN ANIMALS???I don't know why I thought of these little guys, but my sisters and I used to love to play with them when we were little. One Christmas our ex-step-aunt sent us a huge box of families, furniture and houses. We were ecstatic about them because we rarely got new toys that weren't homemade. I think my parents might still have them in the basement. I'm totally going to dig around

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After much begging and pleading, I finally got my Nikon D80 last Friday. Andy and I love love LOVE it!!!I've had my eye on this baby for a long long time, and let me tell you, nagging works! If you're in the market for a digital SLR and have a couple g's laying around, I highly recommend this beauty.

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Okay, so there really is no playstation involved, but I finished my craft area last night.Well, almost finished anyway. These will eventually hang on the wall to the left of the shelves. I was sick of it all after recovering my chair last night, so it will have to wait for another time. I think I'll get Andy to do it for me. He's getting pretty good at hanging stuff on walls.

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Just a quick re-cap of our past few weeks in photos. I've been falling behind on this blogging and will use this as my catch-up.First, some of our flowers from the garden. The Morning Glories are doing very well this year. We built a little tee-pee out of bamboo sticks for them to grow up and they are going nuts. Apparently they like the no-rain thing. It is very strange, though. We have 3

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I made this for the second time last night, and I think it's going to make its way into the permanent collection in the Krueger Kitchen. It's a little sticky-to-the-pan, but delicious nonetheless.The first time I made it I used the amount of oil that it calls for (1/4 cup, I think?), but it was just sooo oily in the end, that the second time around I actually didn't use any at all. Oddly enough

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The first piece of "furniture" Andy and I purchased together after we got married was a 6 foot Love Sac. It has served us well over the years, providing us with not only the world's largest & most expensive dog bed, but also a very comfortable resting spot. A great spot to curl up with a good book and cuddle with the pugger. Some of you may have even spent a night or 2 sleeping on this very Love

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Probably one of my first childhood memories involved my older sister Jessica and a nest of killdeer eggs.Each Spring, we would always get flocks of killdeer in our neighborhood. They would lay eggs on this big open area of grass in our yard. Well, they were always very hard to see (grass and stuff would mostly hide the eggs, and the momma & dadda killdeer weren't always around to warn you when

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Last Friday night we went to the underwater worlds at the mall of america. Andy had been there a few times, but it was a first for me. Can I just recommend that if you ever go, Friday evening around 8pm is the best time to go; there was barely anyone there. We definitely wouldn't have lasted 2 hours if there were screaming kids running amok.This kinda freaked me out a little bit.Entering the

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Isn't it strange how random memories come to you at the strangest times? This morning on my way to work, for some reason I remembered a day from, probably first or second grade when I went over to a friend's house. I don't know why I all of a sudden remembered that day, but I did. And it was so strange. My friend's name was (I suppose it probably still is) Emily. I distinctly remember 3 things

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On Saturday we worked on the yard from "sun up til sun down". Okay, maybe not from sun up, but definitely until sun down! We got up bright & early to make it over to the state fairgrounds an hour before (apparently) the largest plant sale in MN opened. We were pleased to see that there were a mere 20 or 30 folks already in line (versus the over 2,000 already in line when Andy had gone the day

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As I was weed wacking (loves it) our insane weeds last night, I knocked down the hugest dandelion I've ever seen in all my lifetimes. This sucker had a trunk of a stem, and at least 5 individual dandelion flowers growing out of the top of it. I brought it into the garage for safe keeping so that I could take a photo of it, because, seriously, I've never seen anything like that before. Andy and I

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I still don't have the energy to write about the Craftstravaganza that was this past Saturday (it was incredible, by the way), so instead I'll share our purchases from the day.Clockwise starting from bottom left-hand corner:Purse made of re-claimed vintage fabric from Natalie & Friends"don't fall a sleep" CD featuring local bands like our very own Bla Bla Blacksheep!Screen-printed napkins from

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As we were driving from a funeral to the burial on Saturday, I mentioned to Andy that earlier that morning I had overhead one of his cousins greet one of his aunts at the funeral with "Oh, hello!! How are things!!??" A few things were running through my head, but the one thing that I was really wondering was, "how is she (the aunt) supposed to respond to that?". Should it be "Oh, I'm just

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Our weekend o' fun began Friday evening when Andy and I went to a wine sale at Haskell's. Their website sucks, and the store was way over-packed--pretty sure it was un-safe in case of fire. But we managed to spend $50 nonetheless. From there we went to the mart to get food for the weekends' parties. As we're driving down University, we came upon a Cobra (not the gang, the car) that was driving

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Happy Birthday to 2 of my favorite people evar!, my baby sister Holly and my niece Nadia are 24 and 1 respectively.

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Andy was singing that song this morning, only one problem--it's APRIL!!!It's snowing. It's been snowing since late last night. This is absolutely ridiculous and I want my money back--it was 80 just a couple weeks ago, and now it's like 17 and snowy. But ya know, 24 years ago this Friday (Andy is so sick of hearing this story....) my little sister was born during a blizzard in which over a foot of

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For the past few months I've been carrying around a finished roll of film in my purse with me, in hopes that I'd remember to get it developed. I finally remembered last week when I was at the store, so I dropped it off. Surprisingly, I also remembered to pick it up on my lunch break today. Normally, I would have given it to a co-worker to develop it here at work for me, since we have a mini-lab (

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Andy knew that I was having a sad night Monday and yesterday, so he ordered me a lovely necklace that he knew I had my eye on (I never even told him I wanted it, but he noticed that I saved the link). I mentioned to him this morning that there was this necklace that I really wanted, and he told me "no, no, you have plenty of necklaces". I was sad. But as I was getting ready for work, he told me

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some things make me sad.

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A week ago Saturday Andy's dad flew us to Waukesha WI to visit Matt & Jenny. We left the house around 7:45 and were in the air by 8:30 maybe? I don't really remember. But it took about 1:45 to get there, and it was a very nice, smooth ride.Taking off....Andy was Bob's co-pilot.This is right around Red WingWaukeshaThe ride home was very bumpy, but we made it--barely!

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Congratulations to Walt & Laura,Welcome little Abigail Grace!!

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What a deal! I wonder if there was a sale??

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Ever since we moved into our house, we have no reason to have clocks. The surrounding dogs keep time just as well. In the morning, without fail, Lola wakes us up between 6 & 6:30. Sometimes earlier; on those days we hit the snooze button by saying drearily "Lola, go back to bed". That normally shuts her up for about a 1/2 an hour or so.We know that it's about time to head to bed when the neighbor

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Because I'm so damn lazy when it comes to this stuff, I just now got photos from the past few weeks uploaded. If you live in the area, you know we got pretty hard with 2 blizzards in a week. As I was uploading the photos I took of the damage, I realized that I had very similar ones that I'd taken last summer. I thought it would be oh so much fun to compare them. So for you viewing pleasure, I

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This past weekend, from Friday night until Sunday evening we got around 18 inches of snow. They are now predicting that we will be getting another 12-20 inches between tomorrow and Saturday. I am so not looking forward to this; we spent hours (literally!) shoveling Saturday, Sunday and, (thanks to the plow that pushed a couple feet of the heaviest dirtiest snow ever into our driveway) yesterday.

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Over the weekend Andy and I started thinking about what we wanted to do with the yard this summer. Last year, since we had just moved in at the very end of April, we just went with what the previous owner had planted. We did manage a small vegetable garden in the back, but it was nothing spectacular; we have a city lot. Thus, we don't have a big yard. Lame.Anyways, we're toying with the idea of

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You know it's bad when they're predicting a high of -2 for Saturday. I wish I could just lock myself in the house and not go anywhere all weekend. At least I don't have the mail man's job and have to walk from door to door for hours delivering what is most likely 97% junk mail.Holy hell. I'm glad we had the furnace serviced this morning. At least we should be able to keep warm inside. Know what I

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We made a headboard...and saved approximately $499.99 by making it ourselves. Now Andy can start on that backpiece he's been wanting. rofflezzzzLola helped.

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Andy has been working very hard on the vendor page for the SPC. You can check it out here, but use Firefox or something other than IE cus it looks like crap in IE (but still works).We're also making progress band-wise. I won't make any mention of the prospects until we know for sure, but we're pretty excited about what we have in store. eeeeeeee it's coming together!!

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That every time we have a "company lunch" I get sick? Yes, for real. Whether I go out with a client, a vendor, or co-workers, it never fails. Every time. Normally I talk my way out of going, but sometimes there just isn't any way around it. Case in point: Friday. Co-worker's last day here, so everyone goes out to lunch. Of course, said co-worker chooses the meatiest place in town, leaving me with

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For some reason I've been feeling somewhat uninspired to update my blog. Why would that be? I have plenty to write about, but I'm just not feelin' that blogness as of late.We had a very very nice, but very very busy Christmas. I'm looking forward to the day when we don't have to run around to 4 Christmases in one day. It's nice to see everyone, but it does get to be a bit much. I had a bunch of

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I made my first ever loaves of bread on Saturday & Sunday! My mom used to always make tons of bread when we were kids and it was sooooooo yummy. Also she makes little mini loaves of "Christmas Bread" and gives it away around the Holidays. I thought it'd be fun to give it a shot and it actually turned out. I made 8 mini loaves, bagged it up and on Sunday afternoon we went around to our neighbors

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Can you find the funny in this tree photo?She was peeking around the Christmas tree at Andy.

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This past weekend was the famous No Coast Craft-o-Rama. We felt extra special because we were VIP attendees to the sneak-peek preview on Friday evening. We were loaded up with a wonderfully large handmade swag bag chock full of incredibly wonderful goodies. I won't list what was in them for fear of leaving something off, but let me tell you, it was good!We also made a few purchases...a couple

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It's LIVE!We still have some bits of info to add in, but for the most part it's ready!

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Mark your calendars, the 2007 Craftstravaganza is unofficially offically Saturday April 28th 2007. Just in time to buy your Mom something awesome for Mother's Day!We'll be re-vamping the website over the weekend, so check back next week for new coolness.

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