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Month: September 2010

  • Today was a super busy totally fun day that involved swim lessons, chickens, a splash fountain, skinned knees, and long drives. But of course I took no pictures so I’m sharing some from a week ago. I got this tub of beans idea from Sew Liberated, who was a trained as a Montessori teacher and has lots of great ideas for the toddler set on her blog. IT’S SO EXCITING! We got the big bag of pintos from Costco and then added in a few small bags so she could pick out big and little beans.…

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  • I had a fabulous weekend, and I hope you did too! Saturday after our toddler music class we drove to Corvallis for the fall festival. We got to hang out with Sarah who snapped this photo. Ah my two loves! So sweet. Sunday was the shower in honor of Kathy, who is due next month. Tracy and I threw it (she’s due on Valentine’s day, how cute is that?!?!). We played up the orange and green theme (colors of her nursery). We had faux-mosas (a hit!), cheese and crackers, orange and green fruit parfaits, and these:…

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  • Ugh, Bj’s cold attacked me too! Yuck! I hate being sick, and having my ears plugged like this. I’m mostly better but it will be a happy day when I can pop my ears, that’s for sure! One thing I managed to do while sick was make up this cute banner for a baby shower I am throwing tomorrow: Baby’s room will be orange with a jungle theme so I thought this would be cute for the shower and if the mama wants to put it up in the nursery for a bit she can. It…

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