• Life

    Week 51-52:2023 (Christmas)

    January 3, 2024 - By 

    Finishing up my 2023 Weekly highlight posts. Here we are for Week 51 (Dec. 18-24) and Week 52 (Dec. 25-31)! On Dec. 15th we headed down to Florida to get on a cruise ship, so I’ll be writing separate posts about that week soon. Here’s a pic that makes me laugh. This was when were in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The kids acting like our popperazzi. We got back to Auburn on Dec. 23rd and quickly began to unpack and wash clothes. Rob’s Dad and Step Mom (Randy & Pam) got into town that day and were actually staying with…

  • Life

    2023 Niece & Nephew Outing

    January 2, 2024 - By 

    Recently, for our niece and nephew outing we went to Columbus, GA, which about 30-40 minutes from us. Our plan for this year was to go hang out in Columbus that afternoon, grab some dinner, and then go to a hockey game. First stop was the river walk near downtown. We enjoyed watching a couple guys kayak in the Chattahoochee And pretending they were kayaking! Dinner at Fazoli’s which everyone enjoyed except one. Columbus River Dragons Hockey Game Here’s last year outing with them>>>2022

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    Memories, Dreams, and Reflections 2023

    December 31, 2023 - By 

    As another year passes, I like to end the year with this Memories, Dreams, and Reflections post. It’s always fun looking back through all my pictures to find ones that go with each prompt. Wishing everyone a happy new year! 1. Me! 2. I Love You Love this family of mine. This is from our recent cruise, which I haven’t had a chance to share about yet. 3. Still Laughing… In March, we went to the Savannah Banana game in Montgomery. It’s a lot of fun. They do a tour and I highly recommend everyone go see them if they…

  • Travel

    Travel Summary 2023

    December 30, 2023 - By 

    As part of my year end recap, I thought it would be fun to do a separate post for our travels. We didn’t travel as many time as last year, but I feel like some of these trips this year were more epic. January Rob with the Boy Scout Troop on their annual Ski Trip. I don’t have my hands on any of those photos. February Drew & Caitlyn enjoyed their honeymoon on the Carnival Freedom with a stop in Amber Cove and Grand Turk. April In April we took our desert trip to Las Vegas, Phoenix, and beyond. It…

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    New York 2023: Day 12

    December 17, 2023 - By 

    Here we are for the LAST post from our NYC trip. This is another day there and then flying home. Another morning to see if we could be on TV at Fox and Friends! Here we are with Janis Dean. They were featuring a Teqball team, which was really cool to watch. Looked like lots of fun. Still just taking in the awe that is NYC! Staten Island ferry After breakfast at Westway Diner, we decided to take the Staten Island ferry over. We were both so tired and our feet were hurting. I wanted something where I could sit.…

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    New York 2023: Day 11

    December 16, 2023 - By 

    Day 11 was another full day in NYC. Fox and Friends We woke up and walked down to FoxNews where they film Fox and Friends. We got pictures with Ainsley. She is so sweet and kind to take pictures with everyone. Rob was bummed the timing didn’t work out for us to see the Gutfield show, but he still wanted his picture in front of where you go in for the show. World Trade Center area I wanted to go back over to area for a couple reasons. First reason was to get some pics of the Oculus Center, because…

  • Life

    Week 50:2023

    December 15, 2023 - By 

    Highlights for Week 50 11-15, 2023 Our neighbor behind us cut down some trees that were covering their backyard, but they were actually in our yard. We were ok with it. We saw Sandi Patty at the Gogue. After years of working at the university, we finally got invited to the President’s Christmas party. We had a lovely time. Such a beautiful home and event space. Chocolate chip bars for the two parties this week Bible Study Christmas party at my new church 🙂 Ending this weekly highlight a little early for the holidays! I’ve got a couple posts scheduled…

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    Week 49:2023

    December 14, 2023 - By 

    Here we are for another highlight post for week Dec. 4-10 2023 Old couches New couches…They very much look the same, but they are different brands. We’re just happy to have firmer couches that aren’t so dilapidated. We got our yard smoothed out and resodded. To God be the Glory! What a beautiful sunset I got to see one night when I was out getting some shopping done. Every year at my work holiday lunch, they draw names for door prizes. In the 12 years, I’ve been here I’ve never won. I finally won!! I picked out this pretty tree.…

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    Week 48:2023

    December 8, 2023 - By 

    Another week down (Nov. 27-Dec 3, 2023) and how are we so close to the end of the year?!?!? This is not deja vu or a picture from a month ago. Yes, we had to have more of our yard dug up…luckily only dirt this time and not driveway. Our water main had a leak in it. I’m thankful we hadn’t had our yard fixed and resodded yet. We saw Mean Girls at the Gogue. It was pretty good. Saturday, we went and got our tree. Drew and Caitlyn also got a tree. It was supposed to be monsooning that…

  • Travel

    New York 2023: Day 10

    December 6, 2023 - By 

    I feel like I’m in a mad dash to get so much done before Christmas…actually the week before Christmas! Anyone else feeling the same way? Anyway, here we are for another cruise/NYC post. If you missed the other posts from this trip you can look here>>>New York 2023 Trip. So on Day 10, it was our day to disembark from the Carnival Venezia for the last time. We had a long wait to get off the ship. I believe it was because since this was a 4 day cruise, most people were carrying all their luggage on and off the…

  • Tech & Entertainment

    Watching on YouTube (2023 Favorites)

    December 4, 2023 - By 

    Hey ya’ll! Today for my YouTube post, I decided to post my favorite channels for each category. I wish YouTube would allow you to run some report to see which channels you watched the most for a time period. Anyway, for each category I picked my favorite YouTuber based on which channel popped into my mind the category was typed out. I didn’t want to analyze it too much and make it so complicated and I also felt this was the truest ‘winner’ for each category. Hiking Little Skittle [12.6K subscribers – 166 videos] – Little Skittle (Becca) hiked a…

  • Life

    Monthly Digest – November 2023

    November 30, 2023 - By 

    LIFE Happenings Here’s my weekly posts to catch you up. Week 44 Week 45-46 Week 47 Loving the cooler weather. Happy for this time of year…I guess. More on that below… Excited to go on our cruise in December! Reminiscing This is the time of year to think back to previous Thanksgivings and Christmases. Social In November, we went to some friends’ house for our bible study and fellowship. Work Memories My boss is moving to another position in the library, which is a total bummer. He will still oversee our department and if I decide to apply for his…

  • Life

    Week 47:2023 (Thanksgiving Week)

    November 28, 2023 - By 

    Here we are for our weekly highlights for Thanksgiving Week (Nov 20-26, 2023). Basketball game with Rob. Got to see one of my student workers dance during a timeout as she is a Tiger Paw. Thanksgiving Day Snacks to get us by till dinner. What a spread! My kids and their other halves and their little cousin Drew is so good with his cousins. Lots of work and fun in the kitchen! Alex made from scratch a pumpkin cheese cake and that was the best cheesecake I’ve ever tasted! Love that he’s sharing his chef skills with us. He also…

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    Week 45-46:2023

    November 20, 2023 - By 

    Here we are for my weekly rundown of Week 45 & 46 (Nov 6-12 & 13-19, 2023) Got all my pottery back I worked an Walk to Emmaus Christian retreat over that weekend. When I got back on Saturday, even though I was exhausted, we went to Piccolo to watch our friend, Matthew Kaminski (Atlanta Brave’s Organist) play jazz. New tables in some of the study room. Not a great picture, but one you can see is down like a normal table and hte other one is tilted up so that you can write on it New boots I also…

  • Travel

    New York 2023:Day 8

    November 16, 2023 - By 

    Here we are for another cruise post. Today I’m sharing about our day in Bermuda. If you missed the other posts from this trip you can look here>>>New York 2023 Trip. We got up early and packed for our day out. Then went to eat breakfast as the ship finished pulling in to port. It was the day of towel animal explosion on the lido deck. Rob got a coke while we waited to disembark. Our first order of business was to figure the best way to get over to Hamilton, which is the capital of Bermuda. We had made…

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    New York 2023:Day 7 & 9

    November 13, 2023 - By 

    Here we are back for the Cruise part of our NY trip. This was kind of a 3 part trip and I’ve struggled with how to title these posts. If you missed the other posts from this trip you can look here>>>New York 2023 Trip. So today I’m talking about our 2 days at sea that sandwiched our day in Bermuda. Hoping to learn more about Bermuda…ended up being an hour of them just telling us about all the places to spend money that were right there at the port. They even discouraged leaving that port area (because there wouldn’t…

  • Life

    Week 44:2023

    November 6, 2023 - By 

    Here we are for another weekly highlights for Week 44 – Oct. 30-Nov 5, 2023 With Rob being out of town I got a lot done. I organized our extra closet in our bedroom. Before: After: My current favorite candle I sat down the other day and felt something on my arm and ended up finding this guy, who I think must have landed on my when I was outside. I ended up putting him a jar and letting him go outside. The fall colors are just amazing right now. On Halloween, I made a Keto friendly pumpkin bread. I…

  • Life

    Week 43:2023

    November 3, 2023 - By 

    Week 43…(Oct. 23-29, 2023) Just a few highlights from last week to share… Work share board – A coworker of mine puts a new theme for anyone in our department to add to. Last week, we “Added a Cat.” Here’s mine: Friday on the way home, I saw these guys flying overhead, which was a practice for the flyover on Saturday. I love living in a college town! We had Bigsby on Friday since they were getting ready for the party. I took him for a walk/run. I blogged about the Halloween Party>>>2023 Saturday, Rob and I went to the…

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    Halloween Party 2023

    November 2, 2023 - By 

    Drew and Caitlyn threw Halloween Party the Friday before Halloween. I did kind of a bad job taking pictures, like I didn’t even get a picture of them together. Oh well… Anyway, the party was great! Good punch Every detail thought of…If you can’t tell these are their wedding photos that Caitlyn put a filter on to make people look like zombies. All gluten free food Fun games…Corn hole and Washers Pumpkin carving contest…We brought pumpkins already carved and everyone voted. Drew’s Sailor Aubie Rob’s step dad won with this eagle cut out. Good costumes Both sets of grandparents went…