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Welcome to the Mandel 5!

Thanks for stopping by our little world.  There is never a dull moment in this house with Rob's teaching jobs, my part-time teaching and part-time photography, three busy kids, and more pets than we need.  Check out the links above to read my friends' blogs, find old posts, or get in touch with me.

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painting

The blog is gonna be slow while we establish our new school routine.  We made these things on Saturday with Bambi.

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science

Our mall did a free science activity for kids this afternoon.  We went with friends and made goo, underwater sand castles, and played with jelly marbles.

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Five on Friday

Five on Friday
1) Brady and Jen got iPhones today – SO excited!
2) The boys have their last basketball game tomorrow.  They love it so much and did a pretty good job playing together on the same team.  Next up, Fall baseball.  They got some new bats today to get ready.
3) We are down to one...

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nature post

bird egg from the back yard
close-up of the caterpillar from the beach on Sunday

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cookie

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the day after christmas

Another early morning!  We woke up to this beautiful sky!  Rob and Nathan went fishing.  Logan, Megan, and I went shopping with Stephanie – our annual after Christmas sale at Hanna Andersson.  Although this year Megan didn’t want anything from that store.    Got some stuff for the boys though.  We also hit some...

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park fun

Today we met Abbey and Matt at the park.  Megan is with Graci this weekend so she’s not in these pics.
these guys are pretty silly!
while we were at the park, Rob made this….a new gate!  Ours was falling apart and he surprised us by building a new one.  I had no idea he could do...

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forgot about this little guy…

in a kitchen drawer on our last morning in aruba

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camp, frozen yogurt, fishing, underwater photos

You may have noticed a slowing in posts and family fun.  We decided to sign the kids up for two weeks of camp.  This is the first week and then they go again after next week.  Today they went on a field trip to the Aquarium of the Pacific.  Without us.  On a bus.  Logan,...

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