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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: June 2009

I took 5 kids to Magic Mountain

But before that, I took three kids to the movies and met Colleen and Alex.
Here we are, 5 kids at Magic Mountain.  It was the last day to bring a free friend in June with our coupon book.  We also brought Brady and Jennifer but they were off riding big thrill coasters.
We ran through the...

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Science Center and a Movie

Today I took Nathan to the Science Center.  He had a blast!This was his favorite area – the fishing and trying to make a car do a loop and land in a basket.  He could have done those two things for hours and hours.
He talked me into the rock wall and then spent maybe...

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swimming

We went to the Conns house today for a visit and some swimming.  Daniel, Elizabeth, and Elizabeth’s friend played with the kids while we got to have an actual coversation with other adults!  Look at my fishies swim!
trying to sit on the bottom of the pool for a “tea party”

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train ride and olvera street

Grandma Verna came with us on the train to Olvera Street downtown.
For some reason I lost my mind and let them buy instruments.

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beach

Dawn and I took the kids to the beach today.  Everyone had a great time!
Playing football with the lifeguards…. not sure who had more fun, Nathan and Logan or the cute boys. 
It felt like someone had dumped ice cubes into the ocean but the kids SWAM and went UNDER over and over.  Crazy...

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hurricane harbor

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fishing and reptiles

we went to the free movie this morning – kung fu panda – with grace, alex, chris, and ej
after lunch we went to the library for the reptile show.  yuck.
Meanwhile, Nathan and Rob were on a fishing trip with Rob’s dad.
For his birthday, Papa Bob took Nathan out on his first boat fishing trip.  He...

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father’s day!

We headed out to Papa Bob’s this morning for Father’s Day.  We had a yummy breakfast and then went to the “beach park” to play.
zooming on the zip line
Logan didn’t do it at first because that’s how he broke his arm at scooter’s jungle.  But he overcame his fear and then didn’t want to stop...

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end of baseball and father’s day with papa jerry

Today was the last day of Angels baseball.  The boys had some big hits again (see 365 blog).  We had a team party at Ameci and I officially completed my duties as team mom.  One of very few things I can cross off my 50 things list.
I also have a looking and smiling shot but...

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and for the sake of fairness….

Poor Nathan’s birthday always falls when we are crazy-busy trying to wrap up a school year.  I made this little collage for him but never posted it.  Bad mommy.  I love this kid’s eyes and hair.  He’s getting soooooo big!

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