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| Our first stop on our trip, was to Findlay IL... Nana and Papa's house! |
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| There it is! |
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| When we first arrived, the girls helped to get the corn ready for dinner... we were hungry! |
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| The next day we went to Daddy's friend Keith's house to visit and play with Emery... they did a little workout in the basement! |
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| Best buddies |
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| Getting ready to go ride the horses! |
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| The girls had a blast riding horses all by themselves!! |
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| Brooky was so proud that she rode a house - ALONE! She rode Java, Brynn had "Rodeo"! |
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| Joey's first Cheeto experience... it was a hit! |
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| The next day was 4th of July and we headed to Mattoon to watch the parade (yes - those are big umbrellas for the little bit of raindrops that we felt! Best to be prepared!) |
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| Those trucks are loud! |
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| Hey - there's Santa in that car! |
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| Look at that bucket of candy - and we had TWO of them! |
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| Happy 4th of July! |
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| The kids got tokens for a free ice cream cone at the original Burger King so of course we had to stop after the parade. When we parked in the parking lot Brooky said, "There's Santa's car!" Sure enough - there he was! |
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| and he was such a great sport playing along with the Santa role! |
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| That's one happy girl! |
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| Joey's FIRST ice cream cone! He loved it! |
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| Cuties! |
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| That night we went to a carnival while we waited to see fireworks (well, Nana, myself and Joey couldn't stay up that late - but everyone else did!) While we waited we went on some rides and played a few games. This ride was probably a bad idea - you can tell by the look on Brynn's face! |
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| This one was more their style. This was Joey's first ride as well and he loved it! |
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| Fishing! |
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| They won! It was a fun day! |
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| I think it's safe to say we wore Mia out! |
