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Life As A Green Bean: A Little Birthday Trip
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Monday, August 03, 2015. A Little Birthday Trip. In lieu of a birthday party this year, Livian opted for a visit to go see Nana and Poppa in Seattle for a few days. She has been on a family tree kick lately and really wanted to go through all of Nana's ancestry stuff, so the girls and I squeezed in a quick trip. Wednesday evening we went to Jimmy Mac's for dinner, where the girls enjoyed throwing peanuts at each other throughout dinner. Then Mom and I dropped everyone back off at the house and went t...
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Life As A Green Bean: July 2015
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Tuesday, July 28, 2015. Happy 15th Birthday, Livian! We have a 15 year old in the house! Monday was Livian's birthday, and although we kept it pretty low-key, I think she had a good day. She came down to breakfast and was greeted with balloons and McDonald's hash browns (her favorite thing, and a special treat because we only get those on vacations). We were all stuffed when we left, so we came home and let her open her presents before having cake. Oh, and she had so many candles on her cake that while w...
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Life As A Green Bean: October 2014
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Monday, October 27, 2014. Livian loves entering all the contests our local newspaper (Fort Worth Star-Telegram) holds, and once again she got in the paper. Well, technically our cat did, but she was the photographer and instigator of the whole thing. She entered all three of our cats into their 2014 Model Pets contest, and the winners were published in the Aug. 22 paper. Koda won in the Most Photogenic category. Woohoo! Monday, October 27, 2014. Wednesday, October 01, 2014. Wednesday, October 01, 2014.
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Life As A Green Bean: November 2014
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Sunday, November 23, 2014. It feels like school just started, but it's already Thanksgiving break. How did that happen? Anyway, their second game at noon was cancelled because of the weather and was rescheduled for noon Sunday. We spent the afternoon inside where it was dry, enjoying a lazy day watching Earth to Echo, listening to Pentatonix, and napping (even Melaina took a nap! This last picture was from a couple weeks ago, when the weather was actually cooperating! Friday afternoon before the rains st...
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Life As A Green Bean: August 2014
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Saturday, August 30, 2014. Branson, part 4. After the duck ride, our family stayed at the rec center and played pool, worked on a puzzle, and played some air hockey before lunch. Then we went back to our room to pack up for our flight home that afternoon. The week went by way too quickly! Saturday, August 30, 2014. Branson, part 3. We met up with everyone for a picnic lunch, then all 12 of us got in line to go on the cave tour. The caves were really neat! Saturday, August 30, 2014. Friday, August 29, 2014.
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Life As A Green Bean: September 2014
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Tuesday, September 30, 2014. Poison Ivy and Passing Out. I'm so thankful that she knew enough to sit down before she passed out completely; she could have really hurt herself falling onto the concrete. When she came to, all the kids at her stop were just staring at her - not one of them asked her if she was OK or tried to help her! Tuesday, September 30, 2014. Hopefully all the parent meetings, open houses, meet-the-teacher nights, fundraisers and choir meetings are over and things will calm down soon.
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Life As A Green Bean: February 2015
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Friday, February 27, 2015. Even after 16 years of living here, I still just shake my head at how crazy Texas gets about ice and snow. Sunday a cold front was predicted to blow in, bringing with it a chance for freezing rain and a little snow. So what do the Texas school districts do, before even seeing said ice and snow? Cancel school, of course! Tuell worked from home Monday because no one else was going in to work, but he drove in Tuesday and said the roads were fine. Friday, February 27, 2015. Valenti...
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Life As A Green Bean: June 2014
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Tuesday, June 24, 2014. In the beginning. of The Great Kitchen Remodel! Ever since we moved into our house back in 2000, we have wanted to update the kitchen. It had nasty, cheap builder cabinets and some very 80s wallpaper, plus a huge box light taking up most of the ceiling. It was functional, but we knew that as soon as we could swing it, we'd be updating our kitchen. All of last week was spent ripping down wallpaper (Livian was a huge help! Here's another angle of the old pantry. Just beyond that...
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Life As A Green Bean: July 2014
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Thursday, July 31, 2014. Happy 14th birthday, Livian! For her birthday dinner she chose Double Dave's Pizza; however, the one nearest our house closed, so we had to drive 30 minutes to Keller. Her actual birthday was Sunday but since Sundays tend to be very busy, we went out Saturday night. We enjoyed our pizza and had fun thanking Livian for being born. There's a bit of a funny story about her gifts this year. Tuell and I had planned to get her a Kindle Fire (so she'd stop taking mine! Sunday afternoon ...
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Life As A Green Bean: March 2015
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Sunday, March 15, 2015. Florida, part 5. We had to make our little bit of sunscreen stretch between all five of us; since we hadn't checked bags, we only had small carry-on sizes with us. Avalie's legs got the worst of it. Ouch! We were pleasantly surprised to see a bunch of dolphins swimming right around the pilings marking off the swimming areas all afternoon. They swam around in pods of two or three, which was really cool! Sunday, March 15, 2015. Florida (and Diagon Alley) bound, part 4. Livian had be...
