We bought a home in Magnolia, Texas earlier this year so we could spend a whole summer at home! We arrived May 28th and left August 17th - mainly the kids and I - Chris came with us and visited in July. We did so many things, had so many visitors, ate so much TexMex and BBQ!!!
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| Saige enjoys pizza at Double Daves |
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Meme welcomes us to Texas |
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| Swinging in our backyard |
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| Fun at Timothy's Robotics Camp |
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| Jolee's swimming lessons |
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| Julia's swimming lessons |
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| Blackberry and strawberry pickin' |
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| Bird's nest we found between the thorns |
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| Saige is such a happy girl - even took a nap while we picked berries! |
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| Enjoying Rob Fleming Park |
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| Jam from our berries. Plus we made 3 huge cobblers - 14 hands can pick a lot of berries in an hour! |
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Blue Bell ice cream factory tour in Brenham on our way to visit friends in Round Rock |
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| Lowe's kids building project - Dragon from How to Train your Dragon movie |
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| Building with the Cortez family near Austin |
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| Girls lunch date and shopping trip |
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| Macey at the Hoover's lunch play date |
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| Julia playing at one of the many wonderful city pools in The Woodlands |
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| Joy and Macey |
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| Saige loves the water! |
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| Plunketts came to visit! |
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| Our new table! |
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| Trip to Build A Bear |
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| Matthew and Bella - still best friends |
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| Cade! |
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| Poppa comes to visit all of us |
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| Bahrs are brave enough to come for dinner! |
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| Emma! |
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| Hey! He's in my high chair! |
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| Making s'mores on the back porch |
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| Yum! |
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| Jolee's in love with Keaton! |
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| Cousins' annual birthday party |
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| Not the best picture, Cole, but the only one I got! |
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| Fancy Aleah |
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| Julia, Melissa, and Aleah |
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| Cade and Hannah |
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| Poppa! |
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| Huggin' Cousins - Emma and Katelin |
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| Angela |
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| The Girls |
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| All the kids except Keaton |
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| Resident artists and authors |
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| Aleah gives a powerful hug! |
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| Great grandpa PaJoe |
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| Great grandma Mema |
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| Keaton and his great grandpa PaJoe |
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| Aleah and Jolee decorating cakes for Saige's 1st birthday July 2 |
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| Great grandma Mema watching the "artistry"! |
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| Happy 4th of July! |
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| 4th of July at Grunden's |
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| Watching the fireworks |
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| The city's fireworks were cancelled so the dads went and bought some! |
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| Off to preps! |
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| At the Scotts - Jay's grandparents |
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| My cute blue-eyed baby |
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| Joy and Meme visit - sugar cookie decorating |
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| Bouncing! |
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| Chris's birthday blueberry pie |
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| Saige loved to sit here but couldn't get off! |
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| Happy, Texas |
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| Julia and her new best-friend-forever Autumn |
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| Timothy! |
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| "I know your friend's parents!" My kids heard this a lot this summer! |
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| Grandpa Bill and Laura |
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| Katelin "enjoys" mowing the backyard! |
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| My front flower beds |
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| In memory of Bailey |
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| Happy Birthday Grandma Kathie! |
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| Matthew's Tower of Ice Cream |
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| Timothy "enjoys" the manly art of edging! |
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| Pottery class - this year they made bowls |
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| Julia painted a cupcake bank |
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| We hosted a play date luncheon - 7 moms and 24 kids |
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| Most of the kids - baby gate was to keep Saige off the stairs! |
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| Brazos Bend State Park - the kids biked around the lakes but we didn't see any wild alligators! |
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| King Snake |
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| Baby alligator |
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| Tree root stair steps |
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| Art time at Gina and Clifford's |
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| Burgers! |
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| We waited out a storm, then drove home - the house was lively! |
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| Saige learns to give kisses! Sweet Meme! |
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| Jolee, Elsa amd a Gelati |
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| The boys planted 2 peach trees for Dad |
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| Eventually, we have to go back home to Dubai! |
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| Jolee and her American girl doll Charlotte match |
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