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I haven’t posted in three weeks so there are a lot of photos here, feel free to ignore them:
boys playing in the backyard.
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nathaniel spent a lot of time in his Pjs and in boxes.
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quite happy.
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his little mother’s day card. i love it.
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and the cover.
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drawing in his time machine.
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so very content. i love this boy.
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some more art.
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Jake’s parents visited for grandparents day.
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and i took the opportunity to snap photos of course.
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it had been such a long time.
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since i took anything with them.
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and i love these.
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my sweet inlaws.
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jake’s mom totally redid out front yard.
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the boys loved helping.
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he had promised the boys, so jake got a diet coke and some mentos.
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he’s dropping them into the soda here.
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and boom!!
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david loved it.
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the next day, we went hiking.
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nathaniel made funny faces
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and then some more.
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he made us laugh and laugh.
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then they left and a few days later my sister came to town.
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we took the boys to swim class.
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and snapped photos of course.
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we walked around and the boys played on her phone
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and i snapped shots.
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and more
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they ate it up.
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then Jake took some of us.
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and we laughed.
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and hugged.
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and laughed more.
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and she took some of Jake and me too.
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then we took the kids to the park.
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where they had fun.
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and i snapped photos.
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i love seeing them so happy.
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and jake took photos of us, too.
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it was so very joyful.
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then it was family photo time.
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nathaniel was entertained.
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we love video games.
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and tickle time!!
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and here we go. so grateful for my life. i hope your week was lovely, too.
Weekly Diary is a project for 2014. You can read more about it here.