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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: November 2009

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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thanksgiving part 2 + santa

Today was Thanksgiving dinner at my dad’s house.  Can’t believe I only took ONE photo!  Here’s our crazy group.  Thank goodness the Altimaris came again this year!
A couple days ago, we went to see Santa at the mall with Grace.

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megan and her corey

another new post below

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thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving!!
We started our day with our annual Burrill family photo shoot.

it was a little windy

the “cousins”
I took about a million pictures so I’ll just share some for now.
Grantie and UB with their grandkids
the casey burrills
the choates
the mandels
the burrill cousins
brady and jen
(can we make this year the last one with just two people in the...

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’twas the night before thanksgiving…

and all through the house….
Not a creature was stirring…..
not even a mouse cat

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logan’s feast

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sunday cleaning and park

Because of budget cuts, Rob hasn’t gotten a COC class since last Spring. And it’s not looking good for Spring 2010 either.  Starting in January, we will have to pay $300/month out of pocket to keep the same health insurance we’ve had through the district for 13 years.  Add that to the slew of medical...

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’tis the season

This morning I woke up at 3:30.  I couldn’t fall asleep again.  Colleen, Stephanie, and I got to Toys R Us at 5AM to wait in line for some things for the kids for Christmas.  The blacked out bag is because the kids read the blog.  Ha!  I had five sessions after that.
Oh, for the...

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5 boys and a megan

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tim mcgraw

Jennifer, me and Tracy at Tim McGraw last night
They confiscated our cameras so we had to settle for self-takes after the show.

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