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Sarah with friend Natalie performed 'Harry Potter in 99 seconds' in the end of the year school talent show
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Char likes having Alex visit her classroom
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Deanna and Char on her second last day of first grade,
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Char read her journal to us in her classroom
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Char had a great time with Mrs. Kemper as her 1st grade teacher!
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Char's 1st grade class - last day of school at the West Campus
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The girls with their lunches on the last day of school
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A rainy last day of school (Sarah in 3rd grade, Char in 1st)
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We put a garden in the backyard - June 2, 2012
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D with her Dad helping put together the raised garden beds
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Sarah and Char are excited to have a garden again
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Mom lines the bottom of the beds with paper to prevent weeds
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Grandpa and Dad got dirt in this truck and he pulled it right back to where it needed to be
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It was easier to take pictures than to shovel all this dirt
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''We dig dirt, We dig dirt!''
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We had just the right amount of dirt
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Girls getting every last ounce of dirt from the truck
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The real story of this picture is Charlotte in the background
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Alex and Dad plant a tomato
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Dad with helpers plants a garden - June 2, 2012
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Dad and helpers are all smiles here
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Char with a cherry tomato plant ready to be planted
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D planted the seeds in one of our two raised garden beds
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We have a garden again after a 4 year hiatus
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This garden is planted and even mulched
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This garden had lettuce, beans, carrots and peppers
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Char read 18 hours in the first 3 weeks of summer vacation
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Sarah ready Harry Potter - the 4th one in the series
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The girls show off their reading charts - making great progress!
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The Chilcote family came over for a June visit
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The crew on Father's Day 2012
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This was a fun card to open and 'reflect on' for weeks to come
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Best Pop Ever!
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This was a creative and tasty treat
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The card D and the kids made me for Father's Day 2012
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The daisies growing nicely in the warm June weather
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We all got dressed up for the girls' first 'real play' - Wicked
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Our house with overgrown bushes - June 23, 2012
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Debris from one of the two bushes
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D working on getting rid of all unnecessary branches
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We let these bushes get out of control as we knew we were ripping them out
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One bush almost out - another to go
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Alex got his own drumset from Grandpa!
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'Crank it up!'
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Alex has a blast playing his drums
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Our house with large front bushes removed
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Alex helps Mom water the garden
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This was one of the first pics taken with our replacement new camera
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Playing around
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Some nice daisies prior to our summer drought
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Lexi and the kids have a patriotic parade chanting the pledge of Allegiance
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Outside on a nice June night
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Our three musketeers
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Enjoying a snuggle on a summer afternoon
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The girls and Mom decided to make homemade crayons in the van on a very hot June day
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June 28 - the high temperature was over 100!
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The wax is all melted together!
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The wax was all liquid - we brought it inside to cool
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Crayola - eat your heart out!
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The crayons were solid after cooling down
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A nice assortment of colors!
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These crayons make nice artwork too!
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Maybe we can make money off these somehow?
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We lost a tree in our backyard during a storm - June 29, 2012
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The troops come out to investigate the damage
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The base of the tree that snapped
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The tree draped over the creek
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