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    Week 17 & 18: 2025

    May 8, 2025 - By 

    Here we are for another biweekly post. This was a busy couple weeks, so buckle up for a long post. 🙂 I just can’t seem to get in a groove of writing this bi-weekly life update posts. Maybe I need to go back to weekly…I dunno… April 21 Rob’s cousin and her fiance were in town for the week. She wanted home made Covatels (pasta) while she was in town, so we had those at our house on Monday night. Here’s everyone except me and Rob and his mom and step Dad. We sat at the breakfast table. April 24…

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    Wednesday Hodgepodge 5.7.2025

    May 7, 2025 - By 

    Can’t believe I haven’t done a Hodgepodge post since last April >>> Wednesday Hodgepodge 4.2.2024 1. Let’s compare this May to last May. What’s changed? What remains very much the same? Oh wow! Let’s see last May I was playing catch up on the blog because I had had shoulder surgery in April. Monthly Digest from May Now, I’m healed from that surgery, but still don’t have full range of motion/strength back yet, but close. It’s probably on me for not continuing to do my exercises. It’s a very difficult recovery. Last May I didn’t have a granddaughter. We celebrated…

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    May is Fibromyalgia Awareness Month

    May 5, 2025 - By 

    If you weren’t aware I have fibromyalgia. Unfortunately fibromyalgia effects me. Every. Single. Day. This post is informational. I’m not asking for sympathy or whatever. I’m asking you to read it and understand what a glimmer of what it’s like to have fibro. After a full night of sleep, I wake up nearly just as tired as when I went to bed. When I finally will myself to get out of the bed, every muscle in my body is screaming at me in pain. On good days the more I move, my muscles start to feel a little better. Often…

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    Monthly Digest::4.2025

    May 2, 2025 - By 

    March has come to an end so here we are for another Monthly Digest… LIFE Happenings Here’s my weekly posts to catch you up. Week 13 & 14 Week 15 & 16 Week 17 & 18 Loving being home with no company to just chill and get back to normal life. Happy any chance I get to spend with this little one. Her little arm wrapped around mine just killed me when I saw this picture. So sweet. Excited We got to go Vegas in April. I’ll hopefully be sharing about that in the next few weeks. Reminiscing I’ve been…

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    Week 15 & 16: 2025

    April 22, 2025 - By 

    Time for another bi-weekly rundown. April 7 The week of the April 6-12th we were in Vegas. I’ll write more about this later. For now here a picture of the resort we stayed in for the first part of the week in Henderson while Rob was at his conference. If you follow me on instagram, you may have seen I shared some photos during that week. It’s also on a highlight now if you’re interested. April 13 When we got home from Vegas, Rob was pretty sure he had COVID and he was right. Luckily, he was only down a…

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    Week 13 & 14: 2025

    April 7, 2025 - By 

    Time for another BiWeekly Update… March 25 The fog one morning this morning was so beautiful March 25 Caitlyn and I saw Mama Mia! at the Gogue. So good! Such a cute story. Basically a young woman who is getting married reads her single mom’s diary to find out who her mom dated around the time she would have been conceived. She invites those guys to her wedding without her mom knowing. Again really cute. Highly recommend! March 27 The other day I noticed this dispersion (light [wavelengths] bend at slightly different angles) on the wall in our entryway. So…

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    Monthly Digest::3.2025

    April 3, 2025 - By 

    March has come to an end so here we are for another Monthly Digest… LIFE Happenings Here’s my weekly posts to catch you up. Week 9 & 10 Week 11 & 12 Loving Auburn Basketball Happy anytime I get with L.A. Excited and completely anxiety ridden about the basketball game on Saturday night. Reminiscing In planning our trip to Vegas, I’ve been thinking back to our last time there. Desert Trip Social Dinner and a show (on 2 different nights) with my friend, Rebecca. As well as a seeing Mama Mia! with my daughter in law. Work Memories Strategic Plans…

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    L.A.’s First Toomer’s Rolling

    April 2, 2025 - By 

    Last Sunday was a great day for Auburn Basketball. Auburn was playing in Atlanta in NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament aka March Madness. Sunday was the Elite 8 game for Auburn against Michigan State. It was a great game. We were leading nearly the entire game. With that win, we play in the Final Four game on Saturday! After any Auburn win, Auburn fans head downtown to Toomer’s Corner to roll and party. We typically only go down there for big wins. Rob asked me if I wanted to and I decided it would be fun. They close the streets for…

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    Week 11 & 12: 2025

    March 31, 2025 - By 

    Quick rundown of happenings lately…. March 12 New scoreboard at Jordan Hare Stadium going up. View from the parking deck near my building. March 14 Katniss getting up from one of her favorite spots, which is in the guest bedroom. L.A.’s parents went to another baseball game, so I got to hang with her. March 15 L.A. attended her 1st baseball game and it was a great game too! March 18 More L.A. time!! March 19 Stopped by the church before heading up to the lake with a couple of friends March 19 Dinner at Niffer’s at the Lake March…

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    Monthly Digest::2.2025

    March 3, 2025 - By 

    LIFE Happenings Grand baby came into the world! As many visits that we’re allowed. AU Baseball AU Basketball Week 5 & 6 Week 7 & 8 Loving Life as LyLy (Grandmother to L.A.) Happy Happy to get some really pretty photos of L.A. for her newborn photo shoot. Leading up to it, I was so nervous. I did so much research. When we first got started it was going terribly. She was awake and the lighting wasn’t good. I was like these are gonna be terrible. We finally got her to sleep and ended up moving to another area in…

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    Week 7 & 8: 2025

    March 1, 2025 - By 

    Here’s a quick rundown of the happenings for Feb. 10-23. February 10 – Yesterday at church they put a rose on the alter for the birth of our Granddaughter and we got to bring it home. Got to see L.A. at home the day after she came home. Alex brought his girlfriend over to meet L.A. Feb. 13 – Rob took this picture of the newly renovated baseball stadium. Feb. 14 – I have some sweet students. One of my students left this note on my screen on Valentine’s Day. Feb. 15 – I got to spend some quality time…

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    Week 5 & 6: 2025

    February 20, 2025 - By 

    Here’s another biweekly post of some of the happenings… Jan. 29 – Another gorgeous sunset Feb. 2 – We went over to the Auburn University baseball stadium. It was a beautiful day and they were having a preseason scrimmage. We also wanted to checkout the stadium renovations. Dinner at Walk-On’s and what we found out the next day was that they closed permanently that night! so sad. I’m also mad I didn’t get my favorite meal there since it was my last opportunity to do so. Feb. 5 – Visiting L.A. in the NICU in Montgomery on her birthday. Read…

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    She is here!!

    February 19, 2025 - By 

    I am a Grandmother! L.A. joined us after Caitlyn endured 30 hours of hard labor on February 5, 2025 @ 12:37am! Here’s the happy couple after about 12 hours of labor. 7 lbs. 10 oz. 21 inches I am taking the verbiage from Caitlyn’s f@cebook post from last week because it was so well written… “She is home and healthy now, but that wasn’t the case a few days ago. As soon as she was born she was unable to fully breathe on her own due to Meconium Aspiration Syndrome and had to be put on oxygen, a cpap, and…

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    Monthly Digest::1.2025

    February 1, 2025 - By 

    LIFE Happenings Cruise Snow days AU Basketball AU Gymnastics Week 1 & 2 Week 3 & 4 Loving The Apple TV+ show SHRINKiNG with Harrison Ford and Jason Segel. Happy that January is over?!?!? Excited for Granddaughter to be here this month! Work Memories The never ending cycle of training thanks to having to cancel our big training day because of an unnecessary snow day. Current Project Trying to get caught up with blog posts. Getting house clean and organized again. Drew is going to be a dad very soon. Alex has been coming to Sunday lunches and I just…

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    Week 3 & 4: 2025

    January 28, 2025 - By 

    Jan. 20 – MLK Day! We went to lunch with Caitlyn at Yaki Bowl. So yum! Jan. 21 – Snow Day #1! Work from home *eye roll* Over at Drew & Caitlyn’s house Meanwhile at my house… Katniss wasn’t sure what to think. So cold…this helped warm the house up. Jan. 22 – Snow Day #2! Work from home *eye roll* Jan. 23 – Snow Day#3! In office work day even though university was closed. Roads still icy in places Top of the deck at my building It was Drew’s birthday and he wanted to go to Baumhower’s. It ended…

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    Maternity Photos (December 2024)

    January 22, 2025 - By 

    I wanted to share a few photos from Caitlyn’s maternity shoot. We did these at The Botanic. All of these were taken with an Apple iPhone 15 Pro Max because if I would have used my big SLR camera they would require us to pay $50. I think these turned out pretty darn good with just a little bit of editing.

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    Monthly Digest::12.2024

    January 17, 2025 - By 

    LIFE Happenings Here’s my weekly posts to catch you up. Week 49 Week 50 Week 51 Loving these Electric Salt & Pepper shakers that Alex got me for Christmas. Happy we might get snow next week. Excited that Auburn Men’s Basketball is #1 right now. Reminiscing Every December, especially on the 26th I remember my Dad. (posts about that) Social We had dinner with Rob’s men’s group and their wives at Fratelli’s this year. Work Memories We learned that our coworker Patti is retiring in January. That means I’ll be the only female in the office for at least a…

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    2024 Niece & Nephew Outing

    January 16, 2025 - By 

    Every year for the last few years, Rob and I and Rob’s brother, Nick, have taken Rob’s sister’s kids out for a fun day. Well, 5 out of the 8 (the school age ones). We started doing this in place of giving them “things”. Even though we live in the same town, they are running here and there practicing and playing Lacrosse and just living life with a large family, so just don’t get to see them much. We picked them up about 9:30am and headed to Atlanta. Since Atlanta is on Eastern time, we lose an hour when traveling…

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    “A Little Cutie Pie is on the Way!” Baby Shower

    January 15, 2025 - By 

    Back in November, I planned and organized a baby shower for Caitlyn. The theme was “A Little Cutie Pie is on the way!” I have never thrown a baby shower and it was so much fun planning and creating all the things. It was a lot of work, but I know she loved it so much, so it was definitely worth it. I have linked to as many items we used at the bottom of the post. If there’s anything I left off, feel free to comment below. Here’s what the invitation looked like. I designed them on Canva. I…