The McCann Clan

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Christmas 2010

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Here we are Christmas Eve at My parents house.

Sun Peaks

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Our annual trip to Sun Peaks with the Barrett side of the family for Christmas. We had a blast skiing. The 3 older kids bomb down the mountain. The 3 little kids well that is a different story. They prefer the hot tub!! We had an amazing time the week we were there with our family making memories that will last a life time.

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Sun Peaks

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Ryan turns 9!!

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My little girl has turned 9. Hard for me to believe how fast my kids are growing up. Ryan is so special. She is mature beyond her years and I sometimes look at her and want time to slow down so I can have more time with her. She loves her family and all her cousins. She loves helping and be productive. She is always asking what she can do to help. That is music to my ears. She is great with her younger siblings. She has been super helpful with Jack. She is my mini me and I love her so much. She is a wonderful example to those around her and is always trying to choose the right. She enjoys activity days at church with all her friends. I am so grateful Heavenly Father sent her to our family. She is needed here, we love her so much. Happy birthday my little lady!!!

Mason Lake

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Mason Lake.....Life doesn't get any better here in the northwest!!

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Jack Rory McCann

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We are so excited for our new addition to our family. On Thursday July 8 we were playing at the lake having a great time. When I started feeling weird and I knew something wasn't right. Alex had been telling me for days before that I really need
to get my bag ready, did I? no!!! So Alex and I left from the lake and drove straight to the hospital. I was contracting every 3-5 minutes. When we got to the hospital and got hooked up to all the monitors the contractions of course slowed down. I was dilated to a 3 and 60% effaced. So the nurse said I had to walk for 2 hours. So I walked from 10:30 to 12:30 contracting like crazy. I had to make some progress in order to stay. I of course made no progress and the nurse was sending me home. But before she sent me on my way she called the doc to let him know what was going on. I love my doctor because he told her I was to stay!! So happy for me. This was it. So I was up all night trying to have this baby. At 3:36 pm he finally made is grand appreance. He was a big boy for me. I had a hard time pushing his shoulders out. But he is here and we love him. So thankful for a healthy baby boy.

Family Pictures 2009

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Banks Turns 3

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Hard for me to believe but our baby has turned 3 today. He had birthday pancakes this morning, he loved all the attention his siblings were giving him. All the kids were really sweet with him this morning and excited that today was his special day. The only request he had ws he wanted to go to Puerta Vallarta for dinner tonight and get a balloon. So we thought we could handle that request. He has been a terrible 2 year old and we are hoping that the 3 year old year will be better. He growls a lot and we really don't understand what the growling is for. We love this little guy but he challenges us all. Happy Birthday to you Banki Doodle we love you!!!

A Fun day at the lake

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Ryan's Birthday Cake

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The evening of Ryan's birthday we had a couple of friends over to celebrate with pizza and birthday cake. Ryan had a great day with Mimi going to target and a movie. Then coming home and having pizza, cake and a spend the night with a friend. Fun times at our house.

Ryan's Birthday Morning

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I cannot believe my baby girl is 8 today. Hard to believe how fast time flies. She is our little golden child. She is such a wonderful girl. SHe is always by my side asking what is she can help with. Ryan is caring, loving, kind, generous, and loves her family. She helps allthe time with Banks. Sometimes i think Banks forgets who his mom is. Me or Ryan. She just is a little mother. We are so blessed to have her in our family and are excited that she will be baptized at the end of the monthe we could not be happier to have her in our family. We love her so much.

Mason Lake

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We have been playing at the lake a lot lately because of our beautiful weather. We love 100 degrees aroung here. We were loving the 108 the other day. My kids were so excited that it got so hot in Washington. This is our life right now. We love the lake and could seriously move there. Thinking about summer ending makes me sad because we have had so much fun together making memories.

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Mason Lake

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Mason Lake Fun in the Sun

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WE spent the day at the lake today and had a really fun time. The kids are pooped in bed. Love it when they are worn out from a ling day of summer play in the sunshine.

Mason Lake

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More Summer Fun

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We had a lot of fun in the sun today. We set up the slip and slide, Alex was not to happy about that because he says it hurts his grass, and had some cousins over to play. The kids are going to be good and tired tonight!! That makes for a happy mom!! I love the sunshine!!! Why do I live in Washington were the sun barely shows itself?

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Summer Time Fun

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Time with Grandma and Grandpa McCann

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The kids with Alex's parents went up to the Lavendar fields. They had a really fun time.

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Random Sunday Pics!!!

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Mom and Dad here are some recent pictures just for you!!! WE are so excited that you are coming home this weekend.

Banks Lake 2009

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California Park

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Boys at the pool

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Disneyland 2009

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We, the kids and I, went down to California to visit my parents and while we were there we went to Disneyland. We had a total blast. The kids absolutely loved Disneyland. We had a great time in the sunshine with Mimi and Papa.

At the airport

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Here we are getting ready to board our first plane to California

Sunday Family Time

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Moma and Dad here is the latest get together. We had a BBQ at Aunt Courtney's House after church on sunday. We ate burgers, green jello salad, chips, and of course our favorite brownies!!! We had lots of fun but definately not the same with out you guys. We miss you and cannot wait to see you soon.

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Hanging Out

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Here we are just hanging out yesterday.

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BBQ

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More Hawaii

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Hawaii 2009

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Easter @ Mimi and Papa's House 2009

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We love our family get togethers. We had a great dinner and a fun Easter egg hunt inside of course because our Easter sunday was a pretty ugly one!! But we all had a great time eating and talking. Happy Easter everyone.

Easter Dinner @ Mimi and Papa's

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Easter dress clothes

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We are in our Easter dress clothes headed to church. Of course we had to snap a few pictures of everyone in their new dress clothes!! Kennedy eats it up as you can see, she is our little diva.

Coloring Eggs

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Easter 2009

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Here we are coloring Easter eggs, we had a really fun time.

Cousins first sleep over

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A couple of weekends ago we had to attend a youth dance. Courtney and Casey brought their girls over so they could have fun with their cousins while we went to church. We got home super late and to our surprise all the kids were in bed, that never happens at our house. I don't want to stress the babysitter out so I let the kids stay up. Ryan, Lillian, and Kennedy were fast asleep in the queen sized bed the girls share. So we let Lillian spend the night. So fun for the girls, although they din't realize they were having a spend the night they were!!! When they got up the next morning the girls were at our door. (Our kids don't bug us in the moring we usually just meet in the kitchen) Ryan was really concerned, she thought Aunt Courtney had left Lillian on accident, so basically forgot her!! I assured the girls that Lillian was not forgotten and that they had just had their first sleep over. They were all very excited as they have been asking to have one for a while now. So after pancakes and tubbies they had a tea party. So here are a few pictures of their tea party. They are so fun I just love them when theya re playing nicely together.

Banks fast alseep on the wood floor

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Here is where we found Banks today. We have had a busy day cleaning and I guess he was pooped!!!

Hanging out

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A couple of the kids and I hanging out taking pictures. The kids love to hold the camara themselves and take pictures on their own. That is why I am in the pictures. Normally I am the one behind the lens!!!

All new posts for Jen

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Jen all the new posts are for you. I know you have been waiting for kennedy's new hair cut to go away. So I posted a few new things for you to look at. Hopefully that makes you a happy lady!!

Carter's 9th Birthday

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Hard to believe my baby is 9 years old. I am in total shock, seriously I feel like I was just in the hospital having my first baby boy. He is not a baby anymore. He is a sweet boy with many talents and wonderful qualities about him. He loves to build, draw, he has mastered the rip stick, he is a great swimmer, basketball player, skate boarder, snow skier, and we love him to pieces. He is a boy so he isn't the best cleaner or helper but he tries in his own way. He is full of life and full of love. Barrett and him are BEST FRIENDS and I truely hope there will always will be. We love our Carter J and are blessed to have him in our family. Oh, the song on the blog is Carter's favorite. He definately knows what kind of music he likes and it is not country. he does not like the fact that I like country music!! He is a funny boy..

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Miss Lillian came over for a play date. So we decided to take some pictures of the girls. We love our Lillian. Kennedy and Lillian and best friends. I hope they always stay close.

Kennedy and Grace

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Here is Miss Kennedy holding and feeding cousin Gracie. She love to be the little mommy and help with the baby!!!

Banks

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This is Banks in his new car jammies, he calls them chicous. Kind of a made up word by Banks, he is a very special boy!!! We love him, he has an opinion about everthing.

Kennedy's New haircut

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Kennedy wanted to put her new do on the blog. She loves getting her haircut and loves to model and show off. So her she is with her hew do. She has the exact same hairsut just shorter. We love our Kennedy Grace!!

Sunday Snow

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Sunday Snow

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Sunday afternoon it started snowing yet again in Washington. Kind of hard to believe our weather this winter. We are kind of sick of the snow, but decided to take advantage of our snowy sunday night. We got all our gear on and headed outside for some fun. We did have a lot of fun playing, making snow angels, building snowmen, and then the boys thought it would be fun to build an igloo. Our igloo didn't get very far but they had fun trying.

Kennedy Ringing in the New Year 2009

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This is Kennedy ringing in the new year with pots and pans. The kids have been asking for about 2 weeks when they were going to bang pots and pans for the new year. When it came down to it Kennedy was the only one who ended up preforming. The older kids were upset because we were not with Mimi and Papa and that is where they wanted to be. I told them to just be grateful I even let them stay up til midnight. So here is Miss Kennedy ringing in the new year. Happy New Year!!!

Barrett's 6th Birthday

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Barrett's 6th Birthday

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We had another birthday at our house. I feel sorry for Barrett boy because we came 2days after Christmas. Sometimes I feel like he gets the short end of the stick because I am just so done with presents and parties right after Christmas. The last thing I want to do is another party. We did start the morning off with traditional waffle birthday breakfast. And of course more gifts for Barrett. And this is where the guilty part comes into play, I had to go to work. So later that afternoon we Made brownies. Ya, I didn't make him the traditional Birhtday cake of their choice that I always do. Ya, i really feel guilty. But Barrett Boy is the best boy ever. He would never complain about anything. He is so sweet and has such a sweet spirit about him. He is our third baby and when he came to our family Heavenly Father knew he had to give me an easy baby or I would never have another one. Barrett just fits into our family so well. He loves and adores his big brother, Carter, they are best friends. They remind me of my brothers. They are so cute together and love eachother so much, they have so much fun together. They keep eachother occupied most of the time. We love our Barrett boy and we are so thankful for him in our lives. He is a great example to our family. Happy Birthday buddy!!!

I am going to make him a surprise birthdeay cake, he will love it!!!!

Christmas at Mimi and Papa's

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And yet more Christmas. Are you sick of our Christmas party yet. Christmas just goes on and on at our house.

Christmas Day

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After all the the fun at our house we headed of to Mimi and Papa's for more fun. Santa made an appreance because he got lost Christmas Eve and sent an Elf in replacement of the big guy himself. The kids loved that but they new it was Uncle Josh. We had a fabulous time eating and being together. Later that day we went to the mouse movie. So boring, I cannot believe we payed money to go see it. After the movie we came back to the house and had dessert. What a fun day for our family.

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I cannot get enough of these kids. We have taken a lot of pictures this holiday.

Christmas Morning

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Christmas morning with kids is so special. All the excitement and wonder. Not being able to sleep the night before because you are so excited for the next day and wondering if Santa will really show up that year. The kids got up about 7:40 not too bad. We had a lot of fun opening presents and enjoying the moment with our family. We all still believe at this house and I hope it stays that way for a little longer. We had a wonderful morning with our little family. Merry Christmas.

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We are so loving Christmas and all the pictures we are taking. This is the last of Christmas Eve....But there is still more Christmas fun to come.

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Christmas Eve

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Christmas Eve was so fun being with family, eating great good, and watching the kids eyes light up as they opened a few gifts. We really had a great time. Asian Elf and all. Merry Christmas!!!

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Apparently Santa got lost on his way to our house this evening. So Santa sent a replacement...One of his elfs. The elf was from Japan I think!!! We had a good laugh.

Christmas Eve

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Here are a few pictures from Christmas Eve.

SillyKids

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We are so fun. We do have a fun time together. These kids are crazy too because they have been inside for too long. All of our snow gear is packed over at Mimi and Papa's house we really need to go get it.

Silly

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This is what we do at our house when we get bored. We dress up and take silly pictures. We love the snow but we would like to get back to normal life tomorrow. I am not sure if that is going to happen or not. Well I guess my normal life will return tomorrow. I have to go to work. People need their hair done before Christmas. No one wants to be ugly for the big day. Although I haven't had mine done my hair dresser really needs to get on the ball because I know hers has been done.....Sissy.....I am in need of some blonde!!!!

WinterWonderland

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Here are some pics of our wintery weather here in Washington. Hard to believe this is really our house. We have over a foot of snow. I have never in my entire life seen this much snow in Washington....WOW!!!

Mountain

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Me and Sissy at the mountain taking a picture of ourselves!!! We are so funny.

SunPeaks

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sleeping

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This was our sleeping arrangement the first night before we got to Sun Peaks. We stayed just south of the border because the weather had gotten so bad. We stayed here for the night. I love my ducks.

SunPeaks

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We spent a week in Canada at Sun Peaks. The weather was crazy cold -25 degrees. When you walked outside your nose hairs would freeze. The kids had a great time. I think the highlight of the trip was going to the pool/hottub and splashing around. The skiing was great except for the bitter cold. We only would last a max of 2 hours out in that cold weather. We all had a wonderful time spending time toghether and getting away from our daily routine. Thanks for a fabulous time family!!! We love you.

Seattle

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On Saturday we took the kids on the ferry to Seattle to see downtown all decorated for Christmas. We had a lot of fun eating, riding the carousel and walking around the city. Banks was the most surpised to see all the pretty lights and decorations.

ReadytoSKI

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We are super excited for our up coming trip to Canada. We pulled out the ski bucket to see who needs what and what fits who. This proved to be quite challenging. But we got to the bottom of it and we don't have to buy that much new ski stuff. We love hand me downs in this family.

Park

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We have had such a beautiful fall here in washington. We have tried to take full advantage of the weather. Whenever the kids can get outside they do. The moment they get home from school they want to know when they can get outside and play with their neighborhood friends. We love to be outside.

MYBABIES

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My babies are getting sooo big. I cannot believe how big they are.

ParkDay

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A long wait but worth the wait!!! Here is our Halloween!!!

Halloween

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MorePartyTime

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MissKennedy

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Hard to believe my baby girl is 4 years old. The kids just seem to get bigger and bigger right before my eyes. We started the morning off with Birthday waffles, a tradition at our house, and went straight to the gifts. Kennedy has been looking forward to her birthday since she had her last birthday. All she ever wants to talk about is her birthday. I like to call her the birthdayzilla because she is a little obsessed with it. After lunch a couple of friends came over for a tea party, next we painted toes and fingers. At this point birthdayzilla girl is getting a bit out of control and is crying about people playing with her gifts. She got to be a little bit ridiculous. After our friend party we had a family party. We bbqed that was great but all Kennedy, birthdayzilla could talk about was opening gifts and what she was going to do for her next birthday. Mimi and Papa got her some things for her baby, one of the items has not come yet, so she has asked no more than 100 times when that next gift will be here. So she is a brithdayzilla. We do love her. She has a great personality and is full of life. She is the life of the party and always has something to say. She holds her own in our family and loves to be the princess. she truly believes she is a princess. She is very dramatic and full of spunk. We love our Kennedy Grace and feel extremely blessed to have her as a part of our family. Oh, Taylor Swift is her favorite singer, she thinks she is Cinderella. So that is why that song is on the blog!!! We love you Doey Grace. Happy Birthday little Lady.

KennedyBirthday

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Time

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I have been a busy lady the last 3 months. When taking on a part time job I really didn't think that my life would become as busy as it has. I am not sure how mothers work full time and run a house hold. i am in "AW" of them because mt little part time job keeps me so completely busy that my laundry pile is I think the largest it has ever been. EVER!!! Everyone is doing great though. The kids have all adjusted to school and the routine. Carter is in 3rd grade, so hard to believe. He is getting so big and so old. He is swimming and starts basketball next month. He has also decided to try chess club, hey whhatever makes the boy happy right?? Ryan is in 2nd grade and loving her little life. Ryan is a high achiever, you know one of those brown noser kids that the teacher just loves because she does what she is told and then some. She is also in swimming but really wants to take on dance. I just don't know where to fit that into the schedule so that will have to wait for now. Barrett is in kindergarten, the adjustment for him was really hard. All work no play. He likes to play and still take an afternoon naptime. But finally things are clicking for him and all is well. He is swimming and also doing chess club. Yes, I think I have nerdy boys. But What boys aren't nerdy right??? Kennedy is 3 and is still at home with me for the time being, I am just in no hurry to get her off to school yet. I love having her home with me and having time with her by herself without the big kids around. I feel like I have gotten to know her better. She loves swimming lessons but would really love to dance. I need to get on that for my girls before they are too old huh? We have fun together cleaning and shopping. Banks is our baby that will never grow up because he is the last one and I am having a hard time letting him grow up. He gets away with way to much. It is just hard to realize my baby is 2 and he doesn't want to be the baby. He tells me, "I big boy mommy" guess i should listen. We are enjoying the time of year. Everyone is talking about Halloween, pumpkins, Christmas, our snow ski trip to Canada. We love this time of year because there is so much to look forward too. We love our family and the time we spend together it is precious to us. Happy Fall everyone.

crazy

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You Are Pocahantas!

Free-spirited and wise. You have a strong passionate spirit that touches and changes all who know you. The wisdom and common sense that you have is really what guides you through life. Even so, you also have a very playful side that loves adventure and excitement.

Which Disney Princess Are You?

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You Belong in 1959

You're fun loving, romantic, and more than a little innocent. See you at the drive in!

What Year Do You Belong In?