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Family, Food, Photo-A-Day, Toys

#BenSparkGives – Our Christmas is for Kids Donation Day

Photo-A-Day #3895

Christmas is for kids donation day

Tonight we did a few of our annual Christmas traditions. Each year we pull together a ton of toys to donate to Christmas is for Kids. I take many of the extra toys from reviews, Toy Fair and even more events and add them together along with toys that we buy from money that we’ve saved over the year. We bought those toys on Monday. So we put them together and bagged them up to bring on over to the Christmas is for Kids drop off location. This was the first year that the kids and Allison came with me. While there we got a tour of the operation which is pretty big because of how many families they help. Continue reading #BenSparkGives – Our Christmas is for Kids Donation Day →

Family, Photo-A-Day

A Stop at Pudding Rock

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Photo-A-Day #3300

On the first day of Spring Break for Eva we went for a fun family walk around the La Salette Shrine trails. We decided to do the long loop, the Oak Forest Loop. For the most part the kids were good for this walk. Andrew was melty and tired so he was a bit cranky and didn’t want Allison to carry him and then he did and he wanted nothing to do with me at all. Eva put on her cruise director hat and decided that she was the tour guide who knew everything about the trail. I appreciate that she is so independently spirited and smart but sometimes I just want to walk in the woods. Continue reading A Stop at Pudding Rock →