I love summer…

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For many reasons. The sun, heat, ice cream trucks playing bad music around my neighborhood. I think I wouldn’t love summer as much as I do if I were to live someplace warmer. I can’t believe all those years I wasted wanting to move to AZ when I was in the best place in the USA the whole time! Love the season – My Garden The corn is looking great at least the ones the little kids haven’t pulled out {Read More}

Father’s Day Gift Ideas from Cabela’s

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When I think of Father’s Day I imagine our family taking it easy outdoors. Best Dad In The World Grilling, kickin’ back with a homebrew, playing some Disc Golf and enjoying life outdoors. That is what we love to do on the day we say “Thanks Dad for all you do for all of us.”. Since we are a family who loves to play outside I thought a trip over to Cabela’s in Rogers was the best spot to find {Read More}

Happy Birthday Muddy Flowers!

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June marks one year my blog Muddy Flowers has been alive! Let’s eat Cake! I could never have imagined it going as far and as good as it has this past year. Thank you to all of you who follow my randomness and reviews here on Muddy Flowers. You make blogging way more fun! This year my top 10 posts were… 1) The Coolest Kitchenaid Mixers Ever – Un Amore by Nicole Dinardo 2) 10 facts about chicken eggs for kids {Read More}

A Pretty Gymboree Dress & A Beautiful Jade – review

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Jade is naturally creative, fun, strong willed, sweet, smart, loving, kind and beautiful. She can light up a whole room with her smile. I adore my sweetheart Jadis. Today, she was happy to see the different colors poking out around our yard. Our Flowers are in Bloom. Let’s share them with our Neighbor! I thought it would be nice to thank our friend for watching our dog (Rosco) this weekend while we were away camping. Jadis and Isaiah ran for {Read More}

Dog Days of Summer – Local Dog Parks for the Twin Cities

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My family and I took a camping trip to Baker Park a couple of weekends ago and to my surprise the playground area had a sign that broke my heart a little. It got me thinking “Where are all the dog parks in the Twin Cities?”. I ended up keeping Rosco on his leash next to me and it was fine because we were the only ones at the park. However, I would love to take him out to meet {Read More}

When Did I Get Old?

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How old do you think I am?   The photo above is me just showered, no make up and it is my normal hairstyle. Did you guess late 20′s? Wrong.   Try again… If you said 50 you suck! I am 34 almost 35 years old. I never thought of myself being “old” until I went to a skin care information night. My girlfriend Kristyn is an Independent Consultant with the company Rodan and Fields. I am really excited for {Read More}

working out takes work

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I have been failing in the workout department. Man, it takes so much motivation to get up and go to the gym. I can’t stand the baby weight just sitting on me, but not enough to actually do anything about it lately. Oh yeah, pop doesn’t help. Tomorrow I think I will start all over again.

Planting Corn in the Garden with Kids

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These cuties wanted to help plant the backyard garden – Today, I was determine to finally plant my backyard garden before summer had come and gone! My garden isn’t huge by any means, but I just haven’t had the extra time to get out there and finish it. I needed the helpers extra hands. Question is how much of a help were those two stinkers?! LOOK MAMA, I can un-dig all your seeds! As soon as I turned my head {Read More}

Almost Famous – What it’s like to be on WCCO 4 Morning Show

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Tuesday morning was very exciting over here at Muddy Flowers. I received a phone call from Edward Moody from WCCO channel 4 News!! He asked if he could come visit our family and talk about the camping blog we started –  Beyond The Tent.com We are going to be Almost Famous!! I was thrilled even though he told me to expect him to arrive at our house at 5am on Thursday morning! I assured him the whole family would be {Read More}

Run or Dye Twin Cities Race

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A few weeks ago I took part in the Run or Dye race here in the Twin Cities. All ready to Run or Dye! It’s a simple enough race with the distance of 3.2 miles (5k), so I was confident I would be able to make it out alive! I am not a runner, but I am a wish I was a runner kind of person. This was my second time partaking in a race. Last year I ran with {Read More}