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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.

Category Archives: logan

travel town and the merry-go-round

Logan spent the morning with his friends while Megan was off with her friends and Nathan did his homework (don’t feel sorry for Nathan, he’s been too busy for this week’s homework).  I met up later with Logan at Travel Town and Griffith Park.
I thought this was a little violent for a carousel……
I put up...

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basketball

Another basketball game but this time, I took my new camera and tried to get some better shots.  They’re better.  But I will never be a sports photographer.  More photos from today will be coming to the blog tomorrow.  good night.

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new camera

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6 boys at the zoo

prairie dogs
i LOVE meerkats!

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evening with one kid

Now that the kids are older, we find ourselves without one or more of them for entire days and sometimes even nights.  Today Megan and Nathan were at friends’ houses so we just had Logan.  He wanted to go to Chi Chi and Uncle Brady’s baseball game.  My dad was there keeping score as usual. ...

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boys

Logan found Uncle Casey’s real baseball card and he LOVES it!
(he’s now into buying baseball cards)

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back at home with my boys

went swimming with friends today
missed these furry faces

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dance recital

Megan and Logan had their dance recital tonight.  They both did SUPER considering they missed their classes last week while we were out of town.
up on stage before the show getting “used to it”
with the other boy in his class
Megan danced first – ballet to “Ribbon in the Sky”
Logan danced second to MC Hammer’s “Can’t...

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kindergarten carnival and baseball

Logan had his Kindergarten carnival today.  They made crafts, played games, ate cotton candy, and celebrated a great year.Nathan had a playoff game today.  He used his new catchers gear and they WON.  That means the season continues.  He hit an in-the-park home run which was really a single followed by several errors by the...

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a day with my boys

Megan has been camping with her girl scout troop since yesterday.  Here she is all packed up and ready to go.
Her troop leader took this once the tents were set up.
So, it’s been a boy weekend!
Logan spent the night at Grandma’s last night and this morning we met to see an early showing of Shrek.
Then...

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