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| Levi's birthday party with a few friends and family |
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| At Lake Minnetonka in the last moments of summer vacation. |
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| Levi and flowers |
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| Ezra and flowers. He's really come a long way on his bike riding this year. |
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| Ivy in her dance outfit. She's going to her first dance class Wednesday. It's a frozen theme. |
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| Ivy and her doll. She's very photogenic when she's asleep. |
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| Daddy and Roman at DQ. We cashed in a belated father's day "coupon" to go to DQ together. |
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| Ivy changed her coupon from going to the beach with Daddy to DQ. |
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| Christina's cousin Erik has a visit. He moved to Portland, Ore. to follow his dreams and find better weather. We'll miss him dearly at family gatherings though - the kids will too, but they don't know it yet. |
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| In Savage, for Erik's going-away party. |
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| Ezra's gotten into Legos this summer. |
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| This was from early August. Just a funny photo during Neighbor's night out, which we hosted again. |
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| Levi snapped this cool photo of Roman holding a frog. |
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| So this is Sam's sandwich with home grown cucumbers, basil and tomatoes. Yum. |
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| Levi's friends and his cake, which was Snoopy this year. |
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| Happy boy. |
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| Would it be summer without a trip to the Cherry and Spoon sculpture? |
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| A pink cat ring, oh boy what a ring. |
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| Look closely and you'll see Ivy and her teddy "sprinkles" have the same PJ's. She's doing her pirate expression. |
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| Our garden giveth. |
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| At Levi's birthday we played stickball - first time for a few of his buddies and they did well. |
some photos at the Minnesota Great Get Together....
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| The start of the afternoon. |
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| Record-setting attendance this year at the MN state fair. |
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| Giant slide fun. |
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| Ivy in the sandbox exhibit. |
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| On the farm at the fair. |
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| Sweet Martha |
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| Butterflies |
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| And brothers |
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| End of the day, when we were exhausted and watching the live WCCO 10 p.m. newscast |
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| We returned a day later for date night at the Fair! |
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| The Tim McGraw concert was groovy. |
Daddy brought the kids to the Minnesota Children's Museum in late August.
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| Ezra shows Roman how to make big bubbles. |
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| Ivy wishes it was a hoverboard, but still has fun. |
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| Levi shows Ezra a big bubble. |
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| The kids play in the turtle shell. We have lots of photos similar to this - as do most Twin Cities' families. |
We also ended the summer with a trip to the Canterbury Park Racetrack.
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| Daddy lost about $20 total in bets, and spent about that much in food. But we had fun. Levi is in this photo, wearing blue and near the track. |
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| Ice Cream.... |
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| Free pony rides.. |
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| For ... |
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| Each ... |
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| Kid. |
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| And at the end of the last race they let the kids on the track to race about 200 yards. Ishy. |
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| Roman is running hard here. And laughing. |
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| Ivy's getting into it here. |
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| $2 on #6 to Win. |
