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Living Arrows: 28/52 Fourth of July

July 10, 2017 by Rosie 4 Comments

Another Living Arrows comes around! When life is hectic – and therefore slow on the blogging front – I love that I keep recording these photos of our children. One day when I’m old and grey, I’m sure I’ll look back on my Living Arrows with fond memories.

Life has been busy lately and change is a comin’… I’ll spill all in Friday’s Little Moments – so stay tuned! In the meantime we had a lovely long weekend last weekend for the Fourth of July holiday. On the Tuesday we had a family outing to the Botanical Gardens – one of my favourite spots in the city. Followed by an American themed dinner – homemade burgers and fries!

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I can always count on LP to pose just when I need her too! She had a lovely time wandering around the gardens and was more than happy to wear her stars and stripes head band too!

Little M was not so keen on being put in colour coordinated clothing – fair enough really! He isn’t too fussed about what he wears, but does like to have the final say! After scooting to the gardens, Little M enjoyed walking around the ancient plant garden the best – looking out for dinosaurs!

Take a look at all my Living Arrows photos from 2017 so far.

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“You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.” Kahlil Gibran

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  1. Cal at Family Makes

    July 12, 2017 at 7:50 am

    I’m loving LP’s headband – very patriotic and extremely cute! Glad you all had a good time, and burger and fries! We usually do something for 4th July but didn’t this year. We were maybe distracted by being in France.

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  2. Donna

    July 16, 2017 at 10:18 am

    Oh they look so cute and grown up – I love the forest backdrop – we have botanical gardens here that are just beautiful x

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  3. Sarah

    July 16, 2017 at 2:44 pm

    I love these pictures, that headband is too cute! I’ve been in the US on the 4th July twice now and I love how everyone gets so swept up in the celebrations. #LivingArrows

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  4. Emma

    July 17, 2017 at 10:29 am

    Such cute photos! I love the headband too. I want one 🙂

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