Happy Birthday Sam!! Yesterday, we celebrated his 3rd birthday. We had a party with balloons, a kiddie pool, a bubble machine, and ice cream cake*! Normally, people are pretty busy with summer weekend plans in the PNW, so I figured we’d have low attendance, but it turns out that people with young children maybe don’t
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