As soon as Samantha gets home from school, rather than decompress and relax, she is still wired from her learning and insists on completing her homework. If she doesn't have any assigned homework that night, she gets out her 1st grade practice book (that she was given as a gift last year) and works on activities in it. I truly admire her persistence and motivation.
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A couple of weeks ago, we invited Aunt Kathy and Aunt Beth over to our house to celebrate Aunt Kathy's birthday. She was completely surprised and kept mentioning, over and over, what a great day she had. And we did too.
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I went down to my office in the basement one day and found this note on my keyboard:
I have no idea when Samantha put it there, but it definitely made my day ... and every day since. I decided to put it up on my bulletin board so that I can look at it whenever I want.
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Sam will graduate from high school as the "Class of 2026." As a fundraiser, we were given the opportunity to order sweatshirts or t-shirts with her graduating year on them. Inside the numbers, each of the first grade students printed their names. Now, Sam will be able to wear either her sweatshirt or t-shirt on school spirit days and any other time that she wants!
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We don't accumulate too many leaves in our yard because Steve chops them up with the lawnmower before they get out of control. But, the neighbor always has a TON of them. One night, before it got too cold out, we let the kids play in them for over an hour! Raking up leaves and them jumping in them. It was a family affair ...
Look at those smiles!
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Taking advantage of the last few "warmer" days of Fall.
The leaves hadn't quite fallen on this tree in the front yard. I asked the girls to pose for a quick picture, and Sam took me literally ...
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My little "queen of accessories," picking out a pumpkin at the orchard:
As you can see, the weather was already changing and becoming much cooler within two weeks of the previous picture being taken:
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Last weekend, we attended Louie's baptism in Lansing. The girls were SO excited to wear their "sparkle dresses" (Sam's was actually a hand-me-down from some friends of mine and Sophia's was a hand-me-down of Sam's from two years ago). And Jack? Well, he was excited to be sporting his button-down shirt and puffer vest. Complete cuteness all on one step.
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