{"id":46982,"date":"2015-03-20T03:01:05","date_gmt":"2015-03-20T08:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/?p=46982"},"modified":"2015-03-20T03:01:06","modified_gmt":"2015-03-20T08:01:06","slug":"february-yolo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/20\/february-yolo\/","title":{"rendered":"February YOLO"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I love finding new hairstyles and playing with the girls\u2019 hair!  They both loved this fun heart braid!  Donuts are so very horrible for us, we know this.  So a rule we\u2019ve been holding to the past couple of years, is only on the morning of each girls\u2019 birthdays (and special vacations) do we get donuts.  It helps us look forward to our favorite treat without being too unhealthy!  So, here was Rose\u2019s birthday breakfast!   <\/p>\n

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Lots more beautiful sugary treats.  Good grief, birthdays and sugar sure do go hand-in-hand in our culture these days.  I recently read, the more sugar you eat, the more you crave it and the less sugar you eat, the less you crave it.  Silly that I\u2019m talking against it as I\u2019m showing you how pretty the culprit is!  Oh well, we try every day to have an overall healthy diet.    <\/p>\n

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This day of errands sure was interesting.  We saw a google maps car at Target and a parrot at Hobby Lobby!  <\/p>\n

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Kinder Kate!<\/p>\n

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My friend took me to the World Trade Center for the first time this month.  It was super fun!  There was a store named Simply Noelle.  I had to take a picture for her to see!<\/p>\n

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Flashback to Jaalisa\u2019s amazing tea party!  Next pic: I love working in our flower beds outside.  It just feels good to get my hands in the soil.  Enjoyed planting a few pansies and cabbage this year.  It was a last minute decision.  We\u2019ve enjoyed them so much that next year I will plant them earlier in the season.  They are still going strong today!<\/p>\n

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Lots of Valentine\u2019s cards floating around our house this year!  I have a feeling the one from Nathan on the left, will be one of many as the girls get older!  \"Winking<\/p>\n

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More dance morning memories with our friendsies!<\/p>\n

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Can she get any sweater?  <\/p>\n

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I\u2019ve really enjoyed setting up an Instagram shop this school year, selling new and preloved girls\u2019 clothes.  I\u2019ve also had fun meeting new friends from all around the world on my personal account.  Here are 3 cuties from Australia sporting my custom made gold glitter initial tees I carried this winter in the shop.  We\u2019ve been sending care packages back and forth too.  It\u2019s been such a blast hanging out with this family on IG and working in my little store too!<\/p>\n

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Miss February sure is something else!  Rose and I have totally bonded this year with lots of quality one-on-one time.  She is my little side-kick, and we are connected at the hip!  I don\u2019t know what we would do without this little stinker, who fills our lives with immeasurable joy!<\/p>\n

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More food art by Noelle.  Anna Kate requested oatmeal, and since Noelle was in the kitchen, she got it a little fancier than usual.  I had fun crafting for Rose\u2019s birthday, but can barely remember those crafts, as new ones have filled our house as I\u2019ve been getting ready for Anna Kate\u2019s Jelly Bean Birthday Bash!<\/p>\n

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More adorable dance days, and Noelle helping with the laundry with a cheerful heart!<\/p>\n

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Who do you think made this?  Another Saturday breakfast made with love by our eldest.  When Monday rolled around, the best I could do was pancakes with sugar-free chocolate chips!  All I remember from this week was being exhausted.  I\u2019m so thankful we have a February birthday and Valentine\u2019s to look forward to, because every year, right about this time, winter really presses down on all of us, and we are just so cold and over it.  Currently, it\u2019s mid-March, there are little buds on all of the trees, and a fresh start is in the air!  Couldn\u2019t be more ready or thankful!<\/p>\n

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This is a little flashback gem I finally got printed on a canvas for our loft upstairs.  It makes me so happy to see it every day and remember what an incredible time it was in our lives when our last little love entered our family.  They are already so much bigger than they were in this picture, and this wasn\u2019t that long ago.  We are entering the years we like to call the golden years where we have no toddlers or teenagers in the house.  It\u2019s just simply fun, and we are so happy and goofy all the time.  The physical labor isn\u2019t as much, so we get to enjoy everything more because we aren\u2019t exhausted (as much).  I just want to freeze time every single day.  I truly believe my life has never felt better or more at peace over all, and I just want to be present and take it all in.  Hope you guys had a fun February and enjoyed a peak into ours!  Now here we go marching through March\u2026 treasuring each and every day!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  I love finding new hairstyles and playing with the girls\u2019 hair!  They both loved this fun heart braid!  Donuts are so very horrible for us, we know this.  So a rule we\u2019ve been holding to the past couple of years, is only on the morning of each girls\u2019 birthdays (and special vacations) do we […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46982"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46982"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46983,"href":"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46982\/revisions\/46983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}