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Super Guys at the Park

For Christmas Kai and Nora both got hand made super hero capes courtesy of Crystal’s alert eye on etsy.com.  The are over the moon about them and really dig wearing them but know that they d0n’t really work unless they are fluttering in the wind behind them.  A recent trip to the park was devoted to billowing capes as Kai and Nora used their bikes, the swing, and just running fast to keep the capes moving.  It was a Friday morning (equivalent to Sunday on our weekend schedule) and a little chilly (at only 60 degrees by 10am it qualified for a chilly day here) so they had the normally busy park to ourselves.

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A Visit to the New House

We still haven’t moved into the new house despite picking up the keys the day after we returned.  The rennovations department is still working on getting the carpet taken out upstairs and replaced with wood laminate to cut down on the dust for Kai.

 On the plus side it is giving us plenty of time to paint and make some modifications before we move which will make things easier.

Our first trip over we took a couple of pictures (below)–I’ll get some better ones of the house to post soon.

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Happy New Year!

Crystal has a small point-and-shoot that I just downloaded the pictures off of.  Some turned out quite well so I’m including a batch of them here and that will be it for the Christmas pictures.  Hopefully by the next post I’ll have some pictures of our new house ready to go–we hope to start moving in the next couple of weeks.

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Christmas in Arlington

Christmas Eve we headed down to Arlington, Minnesota to spend some time with Crystal’s family.  We did Christmas Eve at Grandma and Grandpa Wiemann’s where we had a great dinner with family.  Kai and Nora tracked Santa on the NORAD site and then put out cookies and made some of our now traditional reindeer oatmeal.  To make reindeer oatmeal you start with some oats but then anything can go in.  Kai and Nora get to choose the spices and do all of the mixing.  Christmas morning Kai was up early but Nora wouldn’t leave the bedroom unless she was holding my hand in case Santa was still there.   It turns out Santa brought all the gifts to Lea Ann and Steven Post’s house so we headed over there still in our pajamas and opened presents from Santa.

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Last week we had our first big snow storm and I took some pictures of course.  All told it dropped about 7 inches and it sure gave us plenty to play in.   Over the course of yesterday we got another 7 inches so there may be more snow pictures coming.

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First Snowfall

A couple of days after we arrived in Danbury we had our first snowfall.   That morning we bundled up and headed outside for some fun in the snow.  There was only about 2 inches and it was bitter cold but we still had some fun.  We’ve recently had a lot more snow (and a lot more cold).  Stay tuned for more snow pictures!

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