After the horses we went to check out the peacocks that lived at the country club. The girls were showing pretty good restraint by not chasing them across the yard.
Category: monti
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Falling in love with horses
After spending some time with these horses Dahlia and Monti were both trying to work both of us into buying them a horse as a pet. I must admit they were pretty easy to love but I’m not sure they would play ball like Dahlia wanted them to do.
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Hotel fun
Joe’s mom took the grandkids back to the hotel while we grabbed some dinner. She had bought a box full of funny teeth so all of them could have a set. Dahlia had a hard time keeping her teeth in she was laughing so hard.
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masks at Billy and Lori’s wedding
Billy and Lori did a really nice job making sure their reception was fun for everyone. They had a large craft table set up near the pool where people worked on making custom masks for the evenings. The masks turned out really great and it entertained the kids for a long time.
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Digging to the center of the earth in Ft Lauderdale
Monti, Dahlia, and their cousins started digging a huge hole as soon as we arrived at the Ft Lauderdale beach. The hole was quite large and it gathered a lot of attention from passers-by. Dahlia was very protective of the hole especially regarding a 3 year old boy who just kept coming over to help. The next couple hours were spent converting that large hole into a home. The weather was great and none of us ended up getting sunburned.
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Waiting for FedEx
Everyone headed off to Ft Lauderdale while we waited for our box of
clothes and shoes to arrive from Seattle. We had shipped them 13 days
prior but due to weather and the holidays they hadn’t arrived. The
girls and Eliza used the extra time to skinny dip in the hot tub while
the boys were gone. After the hot tub they headed to the garage where
they created mock packages to put at the front door after ringing the
doorbell. We were so anxious to get the package that we fell for it.
The real package did not arrive until 6:15 PM. We still had a 4 hour
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Girls hanging out in The Villages
We enjoyed a day out in The Villages. We shopped, had pizza for lunch
and saw Bedtime Stories. Each girl went home with a mood necklace.
After picking out hers Monti said to me, “Mine will always be colored
grey because that means nervous and I am always nervous.” I have 2
nervous children. Monti bites her nails and Dahlia has started to
twirl her hair till it knots and then she pulls it out. Her hair is
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the wedding of frogette and froggy
Sunday morning is a great time for a wedding and the girl’s were busy planning one. They had found 2 little frogs just waiting to find someone to perform the “froggy” nuptials.
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time to shovel
We had crazy Chicago weather while we were in town. We arrived to
nearly 0 degree weather and left for FL in 60 degree temperatures. My
parents were getting water in their basement due to the rapid melting
snow. Monti simply disappeared from the house and I found her outside
shoveling her heart out. She was just trying to do her part in
relieving the flooding. The water in the basement made both the girls very nervous. -
holiday lights
Brookfield Zoo had a holiday lights program that kept the zoo opened late into the evening. Gabe was working at the zoo but he was dressed in a costume. At the entrance of the zoo I kept noticing this bear waving our direction. We shouted out Gabe but the bear only shrugged his shoulders. It was Gabe but he was not allowed to talk while in costume. The only way you could identify the characters was by looking at their shoes. When we took this shot Monti didn’t know that was her cousin behind the mask.
