I spent a decade of my life as a track and field athlete and then a couple years coaching. I will forever be a track and field junkie. Today I was reminded of the reality of spring track and field in North Dakota. Yesterday it was sunny and 70 degrees with a slight breeze. Today it was 43 degrees when…
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Pink cast debut from Lil Miss Pinke
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The pink cast blogger debut… I am sure you will be seeing many pink cast photos over the next month from the true Lil’ Miss Pinke! Tonight Miss Pinke sitting in Daddy’s lap at Hunter’s spring music concert at school. Socks on to keep her toes warm. The cast goes a few inches above her left knee and almost to…
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Our baby girl has a pink cast
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Our baby girl has a broken leg. Nathan was with Elizabeth this morning at the doctor’s office in our hometown seeing the orthopedic specialist. We have been dealing with this for over a week since a mishap at the park last Tuesday night. The original diagnose was a hyper extension or maybe knee sprain. Then we were worried about a…
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Zoo visit
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Today the 5th and 6th graders from Hunter’s school had a bus trip for Marketplace For Kids. It is a hands-on, classroom career fair for kids. A great program. I was a chaperone with a few other moms along with the teachers. After we headed to the zoo which we pretty much had to ourselves. I took one picture of…
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Tree adventure phase I
Filed Under: Life in North Dakota Tagged With: conservation, North Dakota, prairie life, trees 1 Comment
When we are home on a Saturday, there is always a project. Today Nathan said it was “full circle” to get out the chainsaw and cut down a tree in his parent’s backyard that he helped grow as a child and was his sister’s Arbor Day tree from school in the early 1980’s. The reason for the tree take down?…
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