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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.

Monthly Archives: September 2008

riley’s farm

Andrea took some awesome photos of me and the kids. The three families were going to do family photos at the farm but for lots of reasons, it became a mommy-kid day! I love that Andrea captured these. I love my kiddos so much!
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This is truly my favorite photo of...

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riley’s farm

We made the trip out the the apple farm yesterday to meet Julie and her girls and Andrea and her girls. The weather was not like the last two years – cool and crisp. It was HOT. But we had fun.

Maybe the leaf-throwing was a bad idea.
I told Nathan...

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opening day at the patch 08

Lombardis kicked off their Halloween festivities today. On opening day, train rides are free and you can carve a pumpkin for free. So ride and carve we did! We met Alex, Colleen & Mark and Marylou, EJ & Chris there. It was HOT!

and one from yesterday that I love…..We start celebrating...

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like mother, like daughter

I took this a couple of days ago…
I found Megan taking a photo of this today…..

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diego

When the whole house goes to sleep at 9pm, including Rob, Diego has to step in as the test model.

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la couty fair

This weekend we had planned to do the fair and Riley’s Farm but yesterday Rob was sick. Then today everyone seemed okay so I was going to take the kids to the fair anyway. Rob decided to come along and we had a great day. Logan had some tummy issues throughout the...

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lake

Well, our big weekend plans have been postponed because Rob isn’t feeling well. Instead, I took the kids to the lake to play baseball and search for a seashell on the play equipment. You would have thought I was hiding a $100 bill the way they were looking for it!

I...

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party

I took Megan and Nathan to Christopher’s birthday party after school today. Look what they have a view of – our house. It’s the one between the trees with the pink roof. They can spy on us!!

The kids had a blast swimming in their beautiful pool with a waterfall...

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saturday’s soccer game and party

Yesterday started off with another soccer game. The kids played hard. Logan made an exceptional kick while he was on the bench. Guess he figured it’s okay to jump on the field whenever your team needs you.
Megan caught more frogs. Gross.
Then we went to Hayley’s 6th birthday party at the secret...

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gno

Went out to dinner and saw The Women with Kris and Jennifer. Here we are waiting for the movie to start. I have a couple hundred other photos on my other camera but it’s late so they’ll have to wait. Um, not a couple hundred from our girls’ night out – a...

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