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    Weekend trip to Mobile

    September 26, 2019 - By 

    Back in August, we took a quick little getaway to Mobile for the weekend. Alex had gotten the first few days of school out of the way and Drew and Caitlyn were about to start school. So one last little hurrah before the major grind for the fall. We left right after work on Friday, drove 3 hours, got checked in, and found a place to eat for dinner. We ended up walking to Von’s Bistro, which was within walking distance of our hotel. We stayed at the historic Battle House. I got the Southern Hog Tacos, which were pretty…

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    Pacific Northwest Trip: Seattle Sightseeing

    August 31, 2019 - By 

    If you missed my first 3 posts from our Pacific Northwest trip, here’s the links to those: – Pacific NW Trip: Quinault Rainforest to Olympic National Park – Pacific NW Trip: Seattle Mariners Game and the Waterfront – Pacific Northwest Trip: Sightseeing in Seattle We took the hotel shuttle to the Seattle Center, where we stopped the day before, but Alex wanted to play on the playground some more. As I mentioned in my last post, the Seattle Center is a really interesting place. The playground is like nothing I’ve seen before. On one side is the colorful and oddly…

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    Pacific Northwest Trip:Sightseeing in Seattle

    July 26, 2019 - By 

    If you missed my first 2 posts from our Pacific Northwest trip, here’s the links to those: – Pacific NW Trip: Quinault Rainforest to Olympic National Park – Pacific NW Trip: Seattle Mariners Game and the Waterfront Here’s Rob figuring out where to get breakfast in the hotel lobby, as well the Seattle Flat Iron building and a Target downtown. We checked out of the hotel and went to a Russian bakery called Piroshiki on 3rd 710 3rd Ave, Seattle We ordered their Meat Piroshki and a Raspberry Roll. We shared those 2 things and if it weren’t for that…

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    Pacific NW Trip: Seattle Mariner’s Game & the Waterfront

    July 2, 2019 - By 

    If you missed Day of our trip click here –> Pacific NW Trip: Quinault Rainforest to Olympic National Park. Today I’m sharing our 2nd day in Washington. We left Sequim after breakfast at the hotel and drove straight to Bainbridge Island to get on the ferry to Seattle. We had thought we would park and walk around, but it was still pretty early. Nothing was open yet, so we just decided to get in line and head on over to Seattle. The ferry we took was quite large with several decks just for cars. If you got out of your…

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    Pacific NW Trip: Quinault Rainforest to Olympic National Park

    June 27, 2019 - By 

    Today, I’m going to start sharing with you about our trip to the Pacific Northwest. Rob had a conference at the University of Washington in Seattle, so we decided to make a vacay out of it. Alex, Rob and I left out one Friday after work and booked it over to Atlanta for our flight. We arrived at Sea-Tac around midnight, which was actually 2am our time. Some of slept a little bit on the plain and of course the adrenaline was flowing so we were doing good. We drove from Seattle to Auburn, WA, which is about 18 miles…

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    The Weekly [5.19-6.22.2019]

    June 24, 2019 - By 

    As you can see from the title I am behind my weekly posts for an entire month. Sheesh! Time flies. Between Drew leaving for his internship and school getting out for Alex, a trip to Seattle, and a coworker dying, my boys going to Omaha, the last month has gone by so fast and I’ve had no time to document life. So I’m going to try and get everything up to date here. PICS These pics go from 5.19-26.2019. 1: My nieces stayed with us over the Memorial Day weekend, which also happens to be their recital weekend. They were…

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    New York City Highlights

    June 1, 2019 - By 

    Over Christmas break, we made a trip to New York City. So much fun! This post is a summary of each day with links to each daily post in case you want to read about each day in more depth. [Click on the picture to go read all about that day.] Day 0/1 Flew from Atlanta to LaGuardia 911 Memorial Museum Brookwood Place Statue of Liberty Wall Street Little Italy Macy’s Day 2 Fox News Radio City Music Hall Rockefeller Center for the Christmas Spectacular St. Patrick’s Cathedral Day 3 Central Park Grand Central Station New York Public Library Bryant…

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    New York City Day 4

    May 31, 2019 - By 

    If you missed my first posts from our trip to New York at Christmas click —> New York City Day 1 New York City Day 2 New York City Day 3 Saturday, December 23rd Saturday was our last day in NYC and we hadn’t had bagels yet. So we stopped at Brown’s Bagels before getting on with our morning. Pretty good bagels, but they put a ton of cream cheese on their bagels and maybe that’s the way they prefer it up there. However, all of us ended up scraping half of the cream cheese off because it was too…

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    New York City Day 3

    May 28, 2019 - By 

    If you missed my first 2 posts about our trip to New York at Christmas click —> New York City Day 1 New York City Day 2 Saturday, December 22nd Saturday after finishing off the eggs and bacon we headed out towards Central Park. The night before we had walked a little bit of it in the dark, so I was happy to get to explore it in the day light. This street performer was unique and attracted quite a few onlookers. Although, I’m not sure he made much money. The bubbles he made with the rope were huge. I…

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    Caitlyn’s Graduation Weekend

    May 23, 2019 - By 

    I wanted to write a quick post and share some pics of Drew’s girlfriend, Caitlyn’s graduation weekend. The week before graduation Caitlyn and I went out and ended up doing 2 rounds of grad photos. Here’s a few of my favs… For Caitlyn’s party our friends were nice enough to let her have it at their lake house. We got there early so we could start making the noodles. When we offered to help her with food for the party, Rob asked her if she could have any food she wanted what would it be. She of course answered with…

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    New York City Day 2

    May 21, 2019 - By 

    If you missed my first post about our 1st Day in New York at Christmas click —> New York City Day 1 Friday, December 21st Friday morning started off early as we wanted to get down to 1211 Avenue of the Americas to see if the hosts of Fox News Show Fox and Friends would come out and talk to us. However, it was a dreary day and rain was in the forecast. We got there and it started drizzling and then it started raining harder, but we stood there for over an hour or maybe it was 2. We…

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    The Weekly [5.12-18.19]

    May 20, 2019 - By 

    PICS 1: Last Sunday we had the most gorgeous flowers at church. 2: This is a grub or something, I dunno. Anyone know what it is? As I’ve shared before, I’m currently a little or a lot obsessed with herbs, vegetables, and house plants. So I noticed this little guy hanging out on the siding of my house near my plants. 3: This is one of my new plants. It’s Thai Basil. It had flowered before I got it, so I need to pick all those off. They say that flowering Thai Basil changes the flavor. 4: Alex decided to…

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    The Weekly [5.5-11.19]

    May 17, 2019 - By 

    Again another week that has me quite stressed out and posting my weekly update has slid to the bottom of to do list. PICS 1: Drew’s girlfriend graduated from Auburn University! I need to write a post about all the graduation weekend. 2: I took this picture last week when having to walk across campus for something work related. 3: This is my desk where I sat for the last several years. I moved my desk since there is finally someone taking my old position. It will be a fairly long transition, but I’m happy it’s starting at least. 4:…

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    The Weekly [4.28-5.4.19]

    May 8, 2019 - By 

    I’m late getting my weekly post up, but it’s been a crazy weekend and this week hasn’t really slowed down either. But here it is! PICS 1: Last Sunday, I was outside and noticed this little one flying around. I’m amazed at the pics an iPhone gets sometimes. 2: Daisy cracks me up the way she lays half in half out of her bed. 3: Alex had an orthodontist appointment. Their new building is so pretty. 4: One day last week I got out of my car in the parking deck and work. I looked over and saw this squirrel…

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    The Weekly [4.21-27.19]

    April 29, 2019 - By 

    PICS 1: Our family Easter picture at church 2: On Easter Sunday, we ended up going out Smith Mountain for a hike. We brought Daisy and she loved it! Here she is at the top waiting on the boys to go up to the top of the fire tower. 3: Another pic from Easter Sunday, before we went to Smith Mountain we stopped at the lake. The boys were brave enough to get in the water. It was cold. 4: Mountain Laurel on Smith Mountain 5: We took a pic of my department since it was Employee Appreciation week. 6:…

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    What’s Up Wednesday ~ April 2019

    April 24, 2019 - By 

    Here we are almost done with April. I’m linking up with Shay and Sheaffer for What’s Up Wednesday. What We’re Eating I’ve been eating a lot of Zaxby’s lately. I just been craving chicken fingers. I’ve also cooked some new stuff, which I hope to share with you some day. What I’m Reminiscing About Our trip around this time last year from Boston to DC. What I’m Loving My herbs and my new plants. I want to get some more plants, but I’ve been resisting. We’ll see how long I can hold off. I love these 2 pots I got…

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    The Weekly [4.14-20.2019]

    April 22, 2019 - By 

    Hey ya’ll! I hope you had a wonderful and blessed Easter. Our Easter as good. I made Easter lunch which was a total hit with my family and then everyone pretty much scattered so we my family and Rob’s brother gathered up some stuff to go out to the lake. I’ll talk more about that in another post. PICS As you can see I didn’t take many pics this last week. Alex had a soccer game and a friend of ours who’s son is on the team got this shot of him and texted it to me. He’s in purple.…

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    New York City Day 1

    April 18, 2019 - By 

    Over Christmas Break we went to New York City. This post covers the evening that we got there as well as our first full day. Wednesday, December 19th As soon as Alex got out of school, we booked it to Atlanta with a quick stop in Valley for lunch at Zen House. Our flight left at 5:50pm Eastern Time. Going through security went fast and we had time to kill, so we made our way to the international terminal and then made our way back in time to board our flight. We arrived at Laguardia at 10:50pm. We grabbed our…

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    The Weekly [4.7-13.2019]

    April 15, 2019 - By 

    PICS 1: Last Sunday at church was the children’s play with a Back to the Future Theme. It was so cool, they had a DeLorean out front for people to look at. 2: That afternoon my nieces played LaCrosse. 3: I’ve had a plan to purchase these Magnetic Spice Storage Tins for months, but I’m pretty thrifty, so everyone once in a while I’ll look on amazon. When I found them for about a $1 each, I jumped on it. I put them on the fridge and I love the way it turned out. I frees up counter space and…

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    The Weekly [3.31-4.6.2019]

    April 8, 2019 - By 

    What a wEeK it has been! Ups and down and highs and lows! I know the last few weeks have looked similar with pics of Drew in different arenas and things. I’m not sure I’m encapsulating my weeks fully, but I’m going the best I can trying to keep up. 🙂 PICS 1: The week started off with another huge win for Auburn’s Men’s Basketball Team against Kentucky to send them to the final four. However, after that game Drew is finished with pep band for the season. Even though our team rallied in OT to beat Kentucky and got…