tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-69415299999260047292024-03-04T22:55:24.265-06:00The Elwell'sHis Grace and Love are all we need!The Elwells' Weeklyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12480777743835426749noreply@blogger.comBlogger125125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6941529999926004729.post-64276245653941633112012-07-17T10:02:00.001-05:002012-07-17T10:02:32.008-05:00September 2011 at the Lake<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
Again, it has been awhile since I last posted but here is a few pictures from our trip out to my dad's lake cabin last September. As you can see from the clothing, it was a little chilly but still a lot of fun!</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Checking out the little turtle we found!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">On Great Grandpa and GG's new pontoon boat</td></tr>
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<br />The Elwells' Weeklyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12480777743835426749noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6941529999926004729.post-4598356720544186652012-03-24T14:45:00.000-05:002012-03-24T14:45:09.013-05:00Our Little Ballerina<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
At the end of last summer we were able to get a great deal on a 4 week dance class. Little L absolutely LOVED being a ballerina! Here are some pictures of her as a cute little dancer!</div>
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<br />The Elwells' Weeklyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12480777743835426749noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6941529999926004729.post-78037647182910235872012-03-24T14:42:00.003-05:002012-03-24T14:42:40.674-05:00General MIlls ITQ Picnic 2011<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
Every year at work they have our annual picnic and it is a highlight of our summer! </div>
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Petting Zoo</div>
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Little L's first pony ride!</div>
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Cheerio Dig is always a favorite! They bring in TONS of Cheerios and then hide toys inside and the kids get to dig through it like a sandbox and keep what they find!</div>
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My girlfriend from work has twin girls a year older than Little L so it is always fun to hang out with them for a while!</div>
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The bag held all of her "treasures" and she wouldn't let it out of her site! She even slept with a few of the toys!</div>
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<br />The Elwells' Weeklyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12480777743835426749noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6941529999926004729.post-41931556848209099502012-03-24T14:31:00.003-05:002012-03-24T14:31:38.517-05:00Dora Does Ballet at the MOA<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
At the end of last summer Dora was at the MOA for her new ballerina movie so we went down to check it out. Of course Little L wanted to be a ballerina too so we dressed up for the occasion! :) They had a dance instructor come and and so the pictures below are mostly of Little L watching the other girls dance and she did a little of her own here and there!</div>
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<br />The Elwells' Weeklyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12480777743835426749noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6941529999926004729.post-27768996783850247052012-03-24T14:28:00.001-05:002012-03-24T14:28:30.660-05:00Como Zoo<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
A trip to como zoo! We love going to the zoo to see the animals! This was a really fun day for us and Little L had a blast watching the seal show for the first time too!</div>
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<br />The Elwells' Weeklyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12480777743835426749noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6941529999926004729.post-33393404271717263672012-03-24T14:05:00.002-05:002012-03-24T14:05:19.842-05:00Summer Sprinkler Fun!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
I know I haven't posted in FOREVER on here but I thought I would try to go back and just post a bunch of stuff that I had already uploaded. Since these all happened so long ago I won't post a bunch of words but I will let the words speak for themselves!</div>
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Here is some sprinkler fun in our backyard last June!</div>
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<br />The Elwells' Weeklyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12480777743835426749noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6941529999926004729.post-42589173336106261582011-10-21T07:05:00.002-05:002011-10-21T07:05:37.110-05:00Women of Faith ConferenceGood morning all! Guess what I get to do today! That's right...I'm attending the <a href="http://www.womenoffaith.com/events/2011-events/">Women of Faith Conference</a> here in <a href="http://www.womenoffaith.com/events/2011-events/st-paul/">St. Paul</a>! <br />
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I was blessed to recieve 2 free tickets from Tommy Nelson's blogging site <a href="http://www.booksneeze.com/">Book Sneeze</a>! They just asked that I post about this before I go and after I go. You can see that I procrastinated a bit and I'm just getting this up literally right before I go but I've got to admit I'm really excited!</div>
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After I found out I had recieved the tickets I began to pray about who I should bring with me (since they were so kind enough to give me tickets for 2 people). I had a couple of different people in mind but couldn't really decide on which was the right person. Then about a day later, a girlfriend from work posted on my fb page asking me if I was planning on going to the Women of Faith conference and I knew then and there that she was the one I was going to bring with me! I'm super excited to see what God has in store for both of us! </div>
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It will be 2 full days (today and tomorrow) of teaching and music. Both Mary Mary and Natalie Grant will be preforming and I love both of them! :) I'm looking forward to posting about all the amazing stuff that we see and learn next week!</div>
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If you live in MN and are bummed that you missed this one...don't worry, they'll be back next year! And if you don't live in MN be sure to check out what dates are coming to a town near you. I'm sure you won't regret it! </div>
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Well this is now a couple of months behind but Little L hit the 2 1/2 year mark at the end of July! She is turning into such a little girl and has definitely left the "baby" stage behind (although she still likes to pretend she's a baby these days!) I don't even know where to start with how much she's changed over the last six months but I can say that she is such a JOY to be around! We have our moments of tears and little tantrums (although no terrible twos for us praise God!) but truly she is usually in a good mood most days and she has such an amazing heart for people! Making friends is probably one of her favorite things to do! </div>
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We've had an extremely full summer but we have had lots of fun! Little L got to do some normal summer stuff like swimming, playing outside, bubbles, sprinlkers, etc. She also got to do a lot of "firsts" this summer, including dance class, pony ride, and a trip to the state fair (with a ride down the Giant Slide). </div>
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Little L has definitely blossomed in the area of communication! (She's taking after both her mommy and daddy!) Just in the last few weeks she's started really role playing with her toys, giving them names, having them talk to each other, and acting out different ideas. She loves to give directions to her mommy and daddy and anyone else that might want to do what she suggests!</div>
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The gum situation...Little L wants to chew gum since mommy and daddy do but we decdided that we weren't going to let her chew gum until she is 5. Still, every once in awhile she will say "I older Mommy, I chew gum now!" She definitely has the concept of older down but not necissarily time!</div>
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Our little ballerina...Ever since we took dance classes (more on that in another post) Little L has been a little ballerina! She loves watching Angelina Ballerina and wearing anything that makes her feel like a dancer (dresses, skirts, clothes with ruffles, sparkles, etc.). She will dance or anyone that will watch (recently when we went to church, instead of shaking people's hands or giving high fives she would dance for them when they greeted her!)</div>
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Potty training...it's in full swing now although we are struggling with #2. It's a little frustrating since I know she could do it if she wanted to but it's a work in progress! :)</div>
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Making friends...Like I said earlier, it has to be on of Little L's favorite things to do! She will make friends at the church, the grocery store, garage sales, wherever! It's really nice though because she warms up to people extremely quickly! A few weeks ago we had some friends that I've know for years from CA come to MN for a trip and they were able to swing by our house for 30 min or so to chat. Within that short time Little L was climbing all over the guy and having him throw her in the air and sitting in his lap! Then when my brother came the other day from Norway (she hasn't seen him in person in 1 1/2 years) she started showing off (acting silly) and then he became her new best friend (she even told him that!) and they did puzzles and played catch and all sorts of stuff! She even cried when he left! </div>
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Reading stories...Little L has always loved to "read" but lately I've been really impressed with her ability to memorize books so quickly and "read" them back to me! She also loves to get our books from my bookshelf and "read" them outloud. They usually have a story that is about Jesus or someone getting stuck and her helping them out!</div>
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Singing...Little L loves to sing songs (some of her favorites right now are "Mr. Sun" "Baby Beluga" "Itsy Bitsy Spider" "I'm a Little Teapot" but she also loves to make up her own songs. Those are usually about whatever she is doing at the moment! Too fun!</div>
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Things Little L says:</div>
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Everything is "so cute!" or she "loves" it!</div>
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"I older Mommy" (see above story)</div>
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"Get me out" (usually yelled from her crib when she wants to get out...yes she is still in a crib but since she's not climbing out yet we are sticking with it!)</div>
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"Can I have some chocolate please?"</div>
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"I'm a ballerina!"</div>
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"Happy Birthday!" (this usually accompanies some type of "gift" that she is giving to you!)</div>
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"I love you SO much!" (That's my favorite!)</div>
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<br />The Elwells' Weeklyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12480777743835426749noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6941529999926004729.post-34608730142006428472011-08-28T21:08:00.000-05:002011-08-28T21:08:54.573-05:00Grandma S's Vist and a Trip Up North<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">My mom came to visit us and to attend my aunt and uncle's 50th wedding anniversery back in July. Here is the trip in pictures!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">On my mom's first day here we took a trip to McDonald's for lunch.</div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Little L with a yummy cheese burger!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mommy and Little L (love how her lips pucker from saying "cheese"!)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Little L and Grandma S (same lip pucker!)</td></tr>
</tbody></table><div style="text-align: center;">After lunch we took a trip to the library to return some stuff and pick up a bunch of books on cd for Little L to listen to on our trip up North.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYF2LilYc8RfpQ4TAwlC3S7Tf60IyCxlKOFk09U06YF3jOIZ6pzuC6WwOtCqXA4aUumAUrQ6CZREWssvBr0de_rPlqVD0QCpkMArg9MM0ySQqDCoZgbX-awE8Z2Q71fHyqMbuwa26L9Zcz/s1600/IMG_0074.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="239" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYF2LilYc8RfpQ4TAwlC3S7Tf60IyCxlKOFk09U06YF3jOIZ6pzuC6WwOtCqXA4aUumAUrQ6CZREWssvBr0de_rPlqVD0QCpkMArg9MM0ySQqDCoZgbX-awE8Z2Q71fHyqMbuwa26L9Zcz/s320/IMG_0074.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Then Grandma S and Little L had some fun in the yard!</div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Picking a pear from the pear tree</td></tr>
</tbody></table><div style="text-align: center;">No visit from my mom is complete without (many) shoping trips! On one of our first ones we stopped at Target and they were in the middle of some awesome clearance sales. We got a bunch of things but one of them was a potty doll for Little L (at that point in time she was interested in talking about the potty but didn't actually want to do anything on it but just a few days ago she went on her potty chair for the first time and has gone a couple more times since then!). The doll is actually really cute and it came with its own toilet that flushes and all! I think the cutest part about the doll is how she "brushes" her teeth!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYnE7J21X0C0EWmp2HLKssMBzybe92tuV-BHy2RjxzVr99nzqYj5D-hFY05683nOaFFmZOQZnmU6zOLunco8nNiC6Fkk472gbqQr05RAWQYW32j9J_9wd8hSDWdE2tWp9D_MZWgKWlnMOQ/s1600/IMG_0102.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYnE7J21X0C0EWmp2HLKssMBzybe92tuV-BHy2RjxzVr99nzqYj5D-hFY05683nOaFFmZOQZnmU6zOLunco8nNiC6Fkk472gbqQr05RAWQYW32j9J_9wd8hSDWdE2tWp9D_MZWgKWlnMOQ/s320/IMG_0102.jpg" width="239" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Like I mentioned earlier, the timing for my mom's trip was based around my aunt (her sister) and uncle's 50th wedding anniversery up in northern MN. It's about a 5 hour drive so we made sure to come prepared with audio books, a couple of dvds (although some were from the library and didn't work on our portable player) :(, LOTS of books and LOTS of toys!</div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Little L surrounded by her "stuff"</td></tr>
</tbody></table><div style="text-align: center;">The drive was uneventful for the most part but unfortunately I was running on very little sleep and Little L decided not to nap at all in the car (or at my aunt's house when we got there) so it was very frustrating. The party was very nice (although we missed most of the actual presentation since Little L wouldn't sit still). After the presention we had a super yummy dinner in the church basement and then since it was so hot a lot of us went outside on the church grounds. Little L started "picking flowers"off the graves and once we explained that she couldn't take the flowers off of the graves she just started collecting all of the silk flowers that had blown around and weren't actually from any place in particular. So by the end of the night she had a pretty little collection of silk flowers from the graveyard! :)</div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Grandma S, Little L and me at the church for the anniversery party</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Little L and my cousins daughter Miss H</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My cousin's twin girls (only a few months older than Little L) and Little L ...this was the best picture we could get of three 2 1/2 year old girls!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The cake</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Little L LOVED all the golden balloons and spent a ton of time running around in circles with them getting all sweaty! That's my aunt's wedding dress in the background! So fun!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Here she is all hot and sweaty with the balloons!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We stayed at my Aunt J's house and she had a great tub of toys for Little L to play with!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Looking at the Fourth of July decorations at Aunt J's house...Little L was in awe!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Here it is...the fiber optics changed colors and looked like little fireworks!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Little L playing in Aunt J's backyard</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Checking out my cousin's horses</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Playing at my aunt and uncle's farm with my cousins twin daughters</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Uncle T's fishing boat</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">And for the trip home we stoped at Burger King so Little L could get a crown!</td></tr>
</tbody></table>The Elwells' Weeklyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12480777743835426749noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6941529999926004729.post-58754049326938579272011-08-20T06:50:00.001-05:002011-08-20T06:54:19.746-05:004th of July Weekend 2011<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Yup, I know the 4th of July was a loooong time ago but here are the pics! We went to my dad's lake cabin up near Bemidji and joined my grandparents, aunt and uncle and cousins. The weather was great and we had a ton of fun!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Fourth of July Boat Parade: Every year we decorate our boats and join a mini parade around the lake. This is my Grandparent's new pontoon boat that they just got. It's been great since it is easier for my grandpa to get in and go for boat rides now.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My cousin and her little one, one of my other cousins and Little L waving her flag!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;">Making buns with GiGi! Always an important part of visiting the lake.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Eating the dough is the best part!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Driving Great Grandpa's new pontoon!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Taking Grandpa and Great Grandpa on a "ride"</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Daddy caught a big sunfish</td></tr>
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</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">As for our fireworks, my cousins always go to the same guy every year and he gives them great deals! We always make a list of all of the names of the fireworks (and seriously...who names those things?) and then using ipads this year (we have come so far from our old pencil and paper routine) we rated them all on a scale of 1-3. We have had varying scales over the years but eventually came down to this simple scale of (bad-ok-great! or 1-2-3!) That way we know what fireworks to get next year.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Since this was Little L's first time seeing fireworks I wasn't sure what to expect but I was pleasently suprised! Other than one incident with our first fountain, she absolutely LOVES them! Her quotes of the night were "Fireworks make me happy!" and "More?!?" :)</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Little L with my cousin L and all of the fireworks!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Catching her first glimpse of a fire work...she LOVED them!</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I LOVE this picture! It totally captures how she felt about the fireworks!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I just LOVE all the looking up shots! (My parents have one of me from this age and looking at these pics always reminds me of that!)</td></tr>
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<div class="" style="border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: medium; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: medium; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium; clear: both; text-align: left;">Below is the first fountain that we lit. We were sitting a little closer than we probably should have been, and the fountain was a little bigger than we thought so in trying to move back quickly I tipped my chair over and Little L got a little concerend and started crying, saying she wanted to go to bed. After we got her calmed down she was back into the fire work action!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2CZ6M-qyw_nW-BdJ6R-BB8HAnXiUEi7G2BV-mKtT4VgORbWf2Aiq3-6Y2oPR7okWq96J4MkUHj_tg9UuZvx-fSr-w6TZS02uKBhKja8cF7TPE2oQqRVqaAqRqamN4YeBZJ6HlSaiCbhng/s1600/IMG_5289.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2CZ6M-qyw_nW-BdJ6R-BB8HAnXiUEi7G2BV-mKtT4VgORbWf2Aiq3-6Y2oPR7okWq96J4MkUHj_tg9UuZvx-fSr-w6TZS02uKBhKja8cF7TPE2oQqRVqaAqRqamN4YeBZJ6HlSaiCbhng/s320/IMG_5289.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Waiting for the next firework to light up the sky!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">and Mommy!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My cousin's daugter A wasn't quite as sure about the fireworks but after awhile she got into them too!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">They sure did have fun waving their glow stick flags (seriously worth the dollar from the dollar store!)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My dad snapped this picture of Lydia sleeping with her glow flag after all the fireworks! </td></tr>
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When my cousin L and I were little we had our picture taken with another cousin of mine (K) when we were in the 2-3 year age range. We were all wearing matching dresses my grandma had made and sitting together in the hammock. My aunt K decided that it would be fun to reproduce that with our little girls (K is still newly married and hasn't added a little one to the bunch yet so for this version it was just L and my daughters). So my aunt made matching dresses for the girls (she actually finished them up out at the lake) and then we used my dad's hammock to take the picture.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hammock shot...this hammock is so big it was hard to get the girls in there sitting up!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">So cute!</td></tr>
</tbody></table><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Caribou Coffee had a coupon for the 4th of July that let you get a kiddy drink for free with the purchase of an adult drink. So my cousins and I took Little L and Miss A into town to get "big girl coffee drinks"!</div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;">Little L's favorite part is the whip cream of course!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;">Sportin' momma's glasses!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;">Playing together in the Caribou kiddy area</td></tr>
</tbody></table><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">On the actual Fourth of July we did some low key firework stuff like snakes, poppers (or snaps depending on who you are talking too!), bottle rockets and firecrackers. </div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;">Those are so loud!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;">Miss A wasn't too sure about the fire crackers...</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;">This is what caused the girl's to cover their ears...it was a long string of firecrackers and once they burned up it lit the top ball on fire which caused it to rain down little exploding sparks...it was quite the show!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;">She LOVES her corn on the cob!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;">Eating our traditional 4th of July cook out with Grandpa M</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;">Miss A is such a little fish!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Little L and Miss A had a great time playing in the sand and "baking"</td></tr>
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</div>The Elwells' Weeklyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12480777743835426749noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6941529999926004729.post-83293459977553324082011-08-07T16:08:00.000-05:002011-08-07T16:08:41.581-05:00Mini RA ReunionWhen I was in college I was an RA (resident assistant) for 2 years and got to work with some amazing ladies! One of the girls had the same first name as me and our last names both started with a K which made things rather interesting for us (we actually had to be distingushed using our middle initial or by the "blonde one" or the "brunnette one" or sometimes I was even refered to as the "loud one"...go figure!)<br />
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I don't think we had seen each other since we graduated (8 years ago now...ACK!) but we reconnected on fb awhile back when we were both preggo with our first daughters (her daughter M ended up being born only a week or two after Little L). She recently had baby #2 (the handsome Mr. C) and moved with her soon to be doctor hubby to Kansas City. I was super excited to hear that they were going to be coming through MN on their marathon road trip and we made sure to catch up!<br />
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I know they had A LOT of stops on their very long trip but I am so excited and blessed that we were one of them! We ended up meeting at (where else) the Children's Museum. E brought along another friend of hers that was an RHD (Resident Hall Director) with her which was after I graduated from college so we hadn't met previously. She brought her beautiful daughter along too so the three moms with their three girls had a blast!<br />
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We got there right when the muesum opened and I will for sure be doing that in the future. There was hardly anyone there which is great when you've got little ones. It's easier to let them run around in some of the more popular exhibits when there are fewer people (i.e. fewer of the bigger kids). Plus, all of the accessories for <a href="http://www.mcm.org/visitor-information/permanent-exhibits/our-world/">Our World</a> were where they were supposed to be which made it a little more fun and less chaotic.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">That's my girlfriend E and her Miss M along with Little L</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">New friends are so fun!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Again...looking thrilled...can you tell she was loving the red for face painting? You can see she added some color to my face and I will say that I totally forgot about it and didn't wipe it off (although I cleaned Little L's face before her nap). Later that night we went to the mall and of course it wasn't until we got in the car to go home that I realized I still had the face paint on! Classic!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Twe E's with their two little girls!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Miss M and E in the outdoors craft room</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Taking a little quiet break to read books</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">TA and her lovely daughter the Beautiful B checking out the Water Works area</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">All the girls loved the bubbles!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Little L loves to put the bubbles on her hands and then wash them off!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Blowin bubbles!</td></tr>
</tbody></table>The Elwells' Weeklyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12480777743835426749noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6941529999926004729.post-24288292880015828062011-08-06T07:32:00.000-05:002011-08-06T07:32:10.004-05:00Beach VisitSo I am WAY behind in posting my stuff here but I figured I'd start catching up!<br />
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Here is a little trip we took down to a beach in Eden Prairie with our friend S and her niece and nephews. We got there a little early and didn't realize the beach didn't officially open until later and there was actually a lifeguard training that was occurng so there with about 15-20 teenagers. We just had the kids stay to the side and they still had a ton of fun! The temp was a little cooler than we expected as well but Little L didn't even seem to notice (although the bigger kids had to get warmed up every once in awhile)!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">You can see all the lifeguards in the background...at least we knew everyone would be safe!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Little L had a blast playing with G...he was running around with buckets of water and Little L kept copying him! She talked about playing with him for days afterwards!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Little L LOVES playing in the sand...she was laying down and rolling around in it which meant she was COVERED in sand by the time we were done playing!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lunch break!</td></tr>
</tbody></table>The Elwells' Weeklyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12480777743835426749noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6941529999926004729.post-18031923969215515462011-07-19T15:49:00.000-05:002011-07-19T15:49:37.656-05:00Fun Inside on a Rainy Day<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">About a month ago we decided to try out the story time at Eidem Family Farm in Brooklyn Park. Unfortunately the weather didn't cooperate and story time was canceled. However, the lady at the farm was nice enough to let us roam around a little bit to check out the animals since it wasn't really raining. Little L had a blast "feeding" the goats straw and checking out the other animals! She also enjoyed running around checking everything out but was a little bummed that we weren't going to have our picnic that I was planning to eat at the farm. So after we left we had a "picnic" in our living room! Later that day I made up some "Fourth of July" play dough and we had a grand ol' time! Here are a few pics I took!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We watched a Mickey Mouse Clubhouse episode where Minnie plans a picnic while we had our picnic!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Here's a pic of the play dough I made. I added food coloring to the two and I added glitter to all three. It is kind of hard to see the glitter in the picture but it made for pretty play dough!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This play dough is really great! Super easy to make and super smooth and fun to play with! I will definitely be making more in the near future!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My attempt at an American flag since we were learning about "America's Birthday" </td></tr>
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<div>Here is the <a href="http://countingcoconuts.blogspot.com/2011/02/homemade-playdough-recipe-notes.html">link</a> to the play dough recipe I got from <a href="http://countingcoconuts.blogspot.com/">Counting Coconuts</a>. Seriously LOVE that blog!</div>The Elwells' Weeklyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12480777743835426749noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6941529999926004729.post-21568953712451881522011-07-13T20:37:00.000-05:002011-07-13T20:37:43.870-05:00A Trip to the MOA with Grandpa<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">A couple of weeks ago when my dad was here after Memorial Day weekend, we decided to take a trip to the MOA to check out the Sea Life aquarium. There was a deal where the tickets were the cheapest I've ever seen them and you know me and a good deal! Little L had a BLAST and was just running around checking everything out. You can see in a couple of pictures that my dad had to pretty much pull her out of the water! </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Notice that Grandpa is actually holding onto her pants so she doesn't go head first into the pool!</td></tr>
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">After running through Sea Life, we were pretty hungry so we grabbed a bite to eat at Johnny Rockets! YUMMY!</div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">And since Grandpa is a huge fan of all things Apple, we had to stop in the Apple store. I love the fact that they added a little kids station with computers and fun games! Little L was hooked and it was hard to get her out of there. Do those Mac guys know what they are doing or what!?!</div><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I filled the tub with black beans for the "dirt" and then put coins from the dollar store as well as some necklaces and bracelets. Then she got to dig through and find her "treasure"!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I had a hat and eye patch from the dollar store to complete the pirate feel. :)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I made the mistake of leaving her unattended while she was playing with the tub and this is what I came back too! Needless to say I didn't leave her alone with the tub after that! :)</td></tr>
</tbody></table> We read a couple different pirate books including: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Pirate-Treasure-Backyardigans-Justin-Spelvin/dp/1416908005/ref=sr_1_21?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1308946796&sr=1-21">Backyardigans Pirate Treasure</a>, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Shiver-Me-Letters-Pirate-ABC/dp/0152066799/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1308946951&sr=1-1">Shiver Me Letters: A Pirate ABC</a>, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Pirates-Take-Baths-Kathy-Tucker/dp/080751697X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1308946998&sr=1-1">Do Pirates Take Baths?</a>, and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Night-Pirates-Peter-Harris/dp/140521161X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1308947062&sr=1-1">Night Pirates</a>. <br />
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</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Along with the books I used this <a href="http://www.homeschoolcreations.com/piratelapbook.html">Pirate Tot Pack</a> from <a href="http://homeschoolcreations.blogspot.com/">Homeschool Creations </a>blog. The Bible verse that it focuses on is "Where your treasure is, there your heart is also" so it's been fun to include the Word on that while we hunt for treasure! And hunting for treasure is one of Little L's favorite activities that we did to go with our pirate theme. We take the "doubloons" that we used in the sensory tub and hide them around the house. Then we dress up as pirates and go around looking for our treasure! "ARRRRR" :)</div><div><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is a pic of the hubby with Little L after a treasure hunt!</td></tr>
</tbody></table>The Elwells' Weeklyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12480777743835426749noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6941529999926004729.post-24879057832861026532011-06-27T13:30:00.001-05:002011-06-27T13:32:59.644-05:00What I think about...A Reluctant Queen - The Love Story of Esther by Joan WolfThe book of Esther is probably one of my favorites so when I saw that Booksneeze had a fictional version of the story available for review in an ebook I snatched it up!<br />
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Here is a description from the publisher...<br />
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<div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">An inspiring re-imagining of the tale of Esther, a young Jewish woman thrust from a life of obscurity into a life of power, wealth, intrigue . . . and tender love.</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">See the story of Esther in an entirely new way—with all the political intrigue and tension you remember, but told as a passionate and tender love story between a young man and woman. Misunderstood by many, King Xerxes was a powerful but lonely man. Esther’s beauty caught the eye of the young king, but it was her spirit that captured his heart.</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Imagine anew the story of Esther, one of our faith’s great heroines, destined to play a key role in the history of Christianity.</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; font-size: small; line-height: normal;">Now here's what I think...</span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; font-size: small; line-height: normal;">If you are looking for a scripturally accurate recounting of the story of Esther with just a little fiction thrown in to fill in the detail gaps in the actual Bible then this is not the book for you. While I truly enjoyed reading the book (I actually had a hard time putting it down and got frustrated when my ipad that I was reading it on ran out of power!), I often caught myself saying "wait a minute, that's not what really happened" and I even went back to the Bible to double check things. Now I know this book is clearly fiction and isn't trying to pretend to be nonfiction but some pretty major things were changed (i.e. a whole new king was created for Esther to marry instead of Xerxes). My biggest issue is that it could clearly confuse people as to what really happened and how the scriptures recounts things. Also, I guess I just don't think the actual story really needed to be changed that much just to get a "good romance" out of the book of Esther. I think there's plenty of great stuff that's right there in the scripture! If you are looking for a more scripturally based fictionalized story of Esther I would suggest checking out <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Hadassah-Night-King-Tommy-Tenney/dp/0764229435/ref=sr_1_24?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1309199009&sr=1-24">"Hadassah: One Night With the King" by Tommy Tenney</a>. (It's one of my favorite reads!)</span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; font-size: small; line-height: normal;">To sum it up...It's a great book with well developed characters, a good plot, and a nice level of sweet romance. However, I think the author took a little too much liberty with the facts of the scripture when she wrote the book and that definitely disappointed me.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Little L sleeping on the way up to the cabin</td></tr>
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<div>Unfortunately the weather was kind of yucky so we didn't get a lot of nice outside playtime in but the girls still had fun and even played in the lake for a bit while the guys put the dock in. We had to give them a warm bath afterwards to warm them up since the lake was still really cold! On Saturday night a group of us took a trip into town to go to the movie Thor. It was lots of fun with the family! </div><div><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The guys putting my dad's dock in</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Little L and her "cousin" (really my cousin's daughter) Miss A</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The girls watching the dock go in</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Playing in the COLD lake!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Do you like that I just took Little L's pants off and let her splash in her raincoat!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Miss A and her Daddy B!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Miss A showing Little L how an alphabet ipad game works</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Both of the girls on ipads! We're a very technically advanced family you know! :)</td></tr>
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The lady that was performing (I completely spaced her name) was a lot of fun and cute. Miss M really got into it but Little L wasn't overly interested at all. The two girls went and got their own carpet spots and when it started Miss M did all of the dance moves and sang along while Little L just sat there staring. About half way through Little L decided she was done and started to cry. I tried to get her to come over to me (we were sitting on the sidelines with strollers and Baby J) but she wouldn't move. So I had to go over and grab her. Once she got into her stroller she was happy as a clam! Silly girl!<br />
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After the show was done we went and ate at Soul Daddy's which is the new restaurant from "The Next Great American Restaurant" show. K was a fan of the show and wanted to stop by and even though I hadn't even watched an episode it was still fun to go! The food was pretty good and you certainly got a lot of it!<br />
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We had lots of fun with the girls and I'm sure we'll hit up more Toddler Tuesdays soon!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Here's what it looked like when we planted them (the middle is a daylily that I planted last year and now it is so big it is almost covering up the other flowers and has lots of buds although it hasn't bloomed yet). I was planing on putting in 2 more flowering perennials and some type of white annuals to fill in the triangle but since the daylily got so big I don't have too. My goal is just to have lots of color and once the daylily starts to bloom I am sure it will be filled with color!</td></tr>
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Little L has been eyeing Daddy's skateboard all winter long! She could see it in the garage when we went to get in the car and after seeing Jake skate on Jake and the Neverland Pirates she wanted to give it a go herself! We had to keep telling her to wait until the snow was gone and now that it is she really wants to ride it. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLUJUdpUs9ChAfRKRDiTTSyLAHQiu4TUCTayKMD4H_ajmlUxqa3XAhmWZF94eMet6n6fObih_-f2UUKThs5A-eSofSTzAD8ma_0FCLvroWrzOeF5aO9WwIYiIEKj_qvBpP6YXweYohQ0NW/s1600/IMG_4901.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLUJUdpUs9ChAfRKRDiTTSyLAHQiu4TUCTayKMD4H_ajmlUxqa3XAhmWZF94eMet6n6fObih_-f2UUKThs5A-eSofSTzAD8ma_0FCLvroWrzOeF5aO9WwIYiIEKj_qvBpP6YXweYohQ0NW/s320/IMG_4901.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sharing a stroller!</td></tr>
</tbody></table>The Elwells' Weeklyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12480777743835426749noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6941529999926004729.post-40660148366924897162011-06-07T19:41:00.000-05:002011-06-07T19:41:51.915-05:00Display for Little L's Art WorkLittle L is getting to the age where she "creates masterpieces" on a daily basis and I wanted to be able to display them, at least for a while, to give them a sense of worth. I had seen a couple of different ideas for "Look What I Made" displays and decided to try and make one myself. Using some digital scrapbook paper and a fun font that I found online (for free of course!) I made a picture for each word (Look, What, I, Made). Then I printed it on photo paper and laminated them. After that I used a hot glue gun to attach a wooden clothes pin to the back of each word. This is where it got tricky for me...I debated a lot of different ways to hang the clothes pins (attaching to a decretive wooden board, putting magnets on them and sticking them to a baking pan or something similar, etc.). What I ended up doing is hanging up 2 3M hooks (actually made for hanging wreaths so they are green...think I will end up spray painting them at some point) and then I tied ribbon between the two hooks to hang the clothes pins on. Like I said, I think I am going to spray paint the hooks and I'm not too happy with the ribbon I have up right now so I will probably change that some time too but all in all I think it turned out ok! Now it hangs above Little L's table where she does a lot of crafts and hopefully it will inspire her!<br />
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Here are the "after" pics...<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Here's that closed eye "camera" smile again!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">You can see it was a little crazy but kind of fun and it calmed down as the day went on. I'm sure we'll do it again someday soon!</td></tr>
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