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Joshua on January 7th, 2012

I’m not sure where they got the idea, but the moment we took down the Christmas tree the kids decided that they wanted to ride it. I’m not really sure what they had in mind, but I had a simple solution. We took the tree, tossed it on the wagon and strapped it down. All […]

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Joshua on January 1st, 2012

Take a look at this motley crew and then subtract about 20 years. That picture in your mind is what we’d have look like the last time we all went together on the Santa Train on the Lake Whatcom Railway in Wickersham. We haven’t changed a bit, have we? Of course, it wasn’t just us. […]

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Joshua on January 1st, 2012

A few years ago for Christmas, Amber got a special NordicWare pan just for making gingerbread house pieces. And for the last few years we’ve been buying our gingerbread kits at Costco and Trader Joes. Why? Because making them at home with the pan was just too much work. But this year, something snapped inside […]

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Amber on November 28th, 2011

Wesley wanted a pirate ship cake with real cannons to launch for his 6th birthday. Joshua’s cannon design was great and really launched his hand carved cannon balls.  Wesley and Jillian both loved playing with it before it went into the cake. Then I needed to put it in the cake… Wesley wanted blueberry cake, […]

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