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    Easter Sunday 2012

    April 17, 2012 - By 

    Last Sunday I took the day off and enjoyed the day with the family. We rose early to attend the 8 a.m. church service and then, got over to Montgomery for brunch. We really enjoyed eating at the Egg and I before galavanting over to Oak Park. We walked around the park for a bit. I took some pictures (no surprise there) and we found W.A. Gayle Planetarium. Since we still had some time before the planetarium show started we drove over to the River Walk, where I took more pictures as we walked down the river walk. We returned…

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    Arrow of Light 2012

    April 16, 2012 - By 

    Back in 2009, Drew received his Arrow of Light and crossed over to Boy Scouts. This year for the ceremony, Drew got to be one of the Boy Scouts dressed up in regalia. He had a lot of fun being on the other side of the ceremony this year. Here’s some pictures from the evening. Here’s Drew You can see all the pictures from the evening here.

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    Day Trip to Oglethorp University

    April 15, 2012 - By 

    Drew had an all day soccer clinic in Atlanta this past Saturday. We decided to make the most out of it and go up as a family. It was on the campus of Oglethorp University, which is a beautiful campus. In between games we got to see a free baseball game there as well.

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    Library Stories #3

    April 15, 2012 - By 

    One of the greatest parts of my job is working with college students. They bring such joy and a different take on life. Their worlds are so different from mine and really most adults. I wonder sometimes if I was that naive…and I’m sure the answer is yes. 🙂 In my department, we employ students of all ethnicities, which is really cool. Many of the students come to the U.S. just to go to college. I can’t even imagine how hard that must be. My international students are great though. They are so eager to learn about American culture and…

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    don’t even know what to title this………

    April 4, 2012 - By 

    I’m not sure I can even put my thoughts down in words, but I’m going to try. Yesterday afternoon Drew asked me to get on Facebook since I was at work and he was at home because he had something to talk to to me about. So I did and he proceeded to tell me in chat that one of his youth leaders at church had done something very bad. This youth leader, who I’ll call *Tom worked at a youth camp in another state last summer. Since then he’s come back here as this is his hometown, where he…

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    Memories of the Month {3.2012}

    April 2, 2012 - By 

    Oops! Almost forgot to finish up on this and get it posted. This month I was happy about: booking a cruise for the 4 of us in September!! Squeeeel! This month I was sad about: the passing of one of our cub scout leaders and the huge turn out at his funeral. The wonderful memories from February’s trip to the McWane center will have a bit of a dark lining in my memory because that was the last time I saw him. He had to leave just after getting there because he was not feeling well. I guess in many…

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    Memories of the Month {4.2012}

    April 1, 2012 - By 

    This month I was happy about: spending Easter with my family. This month I was sad about: this and not doing my weekly photo posts; not for the lack of taking pics, just unmotivated and unable to match prompts. Something I accomplished this month is: eating healthier and exercising. Something new I did was: visit Oglethorp University, while Drew attended a soccer clinic. Books I read were: From May to December (awesome book! one of my all time favs) Coney Detroit (makes ya hungry!) Beautiful Ambition (suffered through it) Uglies (got to p. 20 something and decided this book was…

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    Field Trip to Callaway

    March 28, 2012 - By 

    Last Thursday I ventured over to Callaway Gardens to Alex’s field trip. It was a fun day. Here are a few highlights… The buses arriving Bird Show The Garden Alex’s class Butterfly House /

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    Announcement

    March 28, 2012 - By 

    I can’t believe it’s taken me a week to tell you what I’m SO EXCITED about! It’s been 4 years since our last cruise and we have finally booked a cruise and this time we’re taking the kids. Here’s the details… Who? The Fab Four (Rob’s and My 7th cruise. Drew’s 3rd cruise. Alex’s 1st cruise.) What? A 7 day Cruise to the Western Caribbean When? September 2012 Where? Leaving out of Port Canaveral, Florida going to: Cozumel, Belize, Isla Roatan, Costa Maya Why? Well, isn’t that obvious? To have fun, relax, enjoy a big family vacation, site-see How? On…

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    Project 366 Rewind {Week 12}

    March 26, 2012 - By 

    18. Flowers I can never remember the name of these flowers. 21. Exercise 22. Field Trip with Alex We went to Callaway for Alex’s field trip. I’ll have a post about it later with lots more pics. 23. Colorful Peppers I was so excited that peppers were on sale this week at Kroger. 24.Carrots Yes, I know. Some very exciting pics this week. haha

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    Project 366 Rewind {Week 11}

    March 20, 2012 - By 

    13.Parmesan Crusted Pork Chops with Spaghetti & Homemade Sauce Since my schedule last week was day hours, I actually got to cook dinner! 14.Chocolate Chunk Brownies with Peanut Butter Cookie Chocolate Chunk Brownies with Peanut Butter Cookies 14.Lazy Daisy in the Sun 16.Spring is springing! 17. Running Playing at the neighbors.

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    I survived a week without Facebook!

    March 19, 2012 - By 

    I recently told myself that I needed to take a week vacation from Facebook (FB). I did it for a couple reasons: 1. It was on my 100 in 1,001 list. 2. I wanted to see how my life would be different without it. My thoughts all along were that there would be no way I could do it. So now I can mark this off my list. Yay! But even more importantly, I realized that I can live without FB. In fact, I can live without it quite nicely. I found that my thoughts throughout the day many times…

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    Scavenger Hunt Sunday #11

    March 18, 2012 - By 

    Vintage This is a necklace that was my great aunts. It’s quite vintage as you can see some of the little stones are gone. I still love it though. Word or Quote Family Nature’s Own People Friends and neighbors enjoying the 80 degree weather. Photographer’s Choice I actually cropped this to have the dark space on the side. Sometimes it’s good to change it up, and not have your subject in the middle.

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    Project 366 Rewind {Week 10}

    March 13, 2012 - By 

    Better late than never… 4. Sign of Spring 6. MPA Music Performance Assessment: Drew’s first competitive band performance. 7. Happy Birthday, Alex! Collage of his day. 8. Meet Gary Gary is the snail that Alex found on the way to school the day before. He brought it home in this Sponge Bob cup. 9. Blue & Gold Banquet Friday night was B&G banquet for our Cub Scout Pack. It was Star Wars themed. 10. Post Birthday Celebration On Saturday we were in B’ham for soccer game and we promised Alex that we would go to a n arcade/mini golf/bumper car…

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    Scavenger Hunt Sunday #10

    March 11, 2012 - By 

    Water Cool water feature Light Driving home in the drizzle Chocolate Strawberry cheesecake ice cream with chocolate syrup Animal I discovered this weekend that goats are really cool animals. I think I want one. 😉 Crowded As hard as I try to keep my freezers organized it’s nearly impossible, especially when they are so crowded.

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    Facebook Vacation

    March 10, 2012 - By 

    Thursday night, just before midnight, I decided to go on a Facebook Vacation. From March 9th at 12am until March 16th at 12am, I am not reading or posting. I think I would be doing fine, except after the Scout Blue & Gold Banquet, Friday night, I was a bit curious (ok, dying) to see what people are saying and the pics that are being posted from it, etc. Other than that I think I would by fine. I would also like to tell the world (ok, everyone on Facebook) how great I think Rob is and all the wonderful…

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    The Power of Cookie Crisp

    March 9, 2012 - By 

    “For some reason these Cookie Crisp wake me up and make me want to go to school. Before I ate I was sluggish and just wanted to go back to sleep and now I feel ready for the day.” -Another priceless quote from Drew