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    iSpy #84

    August 13, 2022 - By 

    Everyday – Kayleigh voluntarily gets in her crate everyday. Since she was raised with a bunch of other corgis, they were all crate trained. That’s where they spent a good amount of time. Show dog life is different. As you can see, she loves her crate and its honestly where she prefers to be if we’re not giving her attentions. To not leave such pets unattended whenever owners are away, services like dog boarding Melbourne are their allies. plant – quarterly – This plant has grown so much! strapped I’m strapped for ideas for this one. 😉 starts with V…

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    Monthly Digest – July 2022

    August 9, 2022 - By 

    Here’s another monthly digest. LIFE Happenings lots and lots of traveling and wedding planning. Loving Virgin River Season 4. Happy All the travels Excited that Drew & Caitlyn have a date and the venue booked for their wedding! Reminiscing about our first trip to the mountains for the 4th. Read about that here. Social I honestly think we were just too busy to be social. Work Memories Interviews the day after being gone for two weeks, but gotta get students hired. Lesson Learned in the Bahamas you drive on the right side of the road in the normal American driver’s…

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    iSpy #83

    August 8, 2022 - By 

    I’m back and here we are in August. For this week we’ll go back to weekly prompt lists. I was going to try and catch up with the weekly posts from July, but I am so behind on everything…including tons of blogging. So that’s not going to happen. And what the heck was I thinking with this week’s prompts!?!?! They were so hard! Can’t wait to see what ya’ll came up with. feature My eye on your plate – quarterly forecast Happy to see the humidity is under 90%! future This one was difficult. I figured I’d post a picture…

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    4th of July Trip 2022

    August 8, 2022 - By 

    Today I’m sharing with you our trip to the mountains for the 4th of July this year. We stayed about 3 miles north of the GA/NC border. Here’s a link to the cabin we stayed at >>> Evolve Vacation Rentals. Here are the highlights of our trip. Here the boys are on the ground level floor playing pool. Bigsby had a big day of travel so he was chillin’ not to far from Drew & Caitlyn. We started a hike at Piney Knob – The Grape Smuggler, which is a 2.1-mile inner loop trail. Lunch at Chophouse On top of…

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    Omaha, Nebraska Trip::Part 5

    August 5, 2022 - By 

    This is the last Omaha post! In this post, we woke up in Mount Vernon, IL and made our way home. About 25 miles south of Mount Vernon on I-57 in Benton, IL we passed this George Harrison Commemorative Mural, which I had read about on Atlas Obscura. I just snapped this from the highway, but you can pull off to get a picture in front of it. Our first stop was in Land Between the Lakes. which is located in Kentucky and Tennessee between Lake Barkley and Kentucky Lake. This was designated a U.S. national recreation area in 1963…

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    Omaha, Nebraska Trip::Part 4

    August 3, 2022 - By 

    Continuing on with another Omaha post. Wednesday After the loss Tuesday night, we had to determine how long we were going to take to get home, what route we were going to take, what cities we wanted to be sure to go through, etc! Our plan for that day was to drive to Des Moines, IA, St. Louis, MO, and spend the night in Mt. Vernon, IL. We pulled off to check out an old Danish Windmill in Elkhorn, IA. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a windmill like this in person and for sure, not this close up. There’s…

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    Omaha, Nebraska Trip::Part 3

    August 2, 2022 - By 

    Monday Auburn had a 1 o’clock game, so we got up and headed downtown and walked to the team hotel for Tiger Walk. In downtown Omaha they have an area called Pioneer Courage Park full of beautiful sculptures. Here we are in our seats before the game started. Auburn beat Stanford, which was so exciting. I was so happy for Rob that he finally got to an Auburn win at the CWS and that they lived to play another game. After the game, I honestly don’t remember what we did after that…I’m thinking we went back and ate leftovers at…

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    Omaha, Nebraska Trip::Part 2

    July 29, 2022 - By 

    Sunday Here we are for another travel post. This one shares Day 2 of our trip to Omaha, NE mainly to watch Auburn play in the Men’s College World Series. In case you miss my Part 1 post>>>Part 1 We checked out of our hotel that morning, because we had an VRBO booked for the next couple of days. We ate some breakfast at the hotel and then headed out for the day. Bob Kerrey Pedestrian Bridge is a 3,000-foot footbridge across the Missouri River between Council Bluffs, Iowa, and Omaha, Nebraska that opened in September 2008. On the bridge…

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    Omaha, Nebraska Trip::Part 1

    July 28, 2022 - By 

    A few weeks ago on a Monday night when Auburn played Oregon State in the 3rd and final game of the series to determine who was going to the Men’s College World Series we didn’t have any plans to go to Omaha. However, Rob looked at me during that game and said, you know if we when we’re going to have to discuss going. After the win, Drew and Caitlyn came over and we started looking at hotels and thinking about if we could take off work that quickly. We’d have to leave by Friday afternoon to get there by…

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    iSpy #78 – 82

    July 2, 2022 - By 

    sparkle Sparkly cupcake toppers from an engagement party we went to wet Rain on the sunroof rounded Rounded Sudafed package and rounded Tylenol…I’ve had a cold this passed weekend. banana I actually had to pull from the archives for this one, because we’re packing for the 4th trip and I actually packed the bananas we had. your choice I love sunflowers. You are invited to the Inlinkz link party! Click here to enter I’d love you to join along with us next week! Challenge yourself this week to step out of your comfort zone. Get low, go high, change your…

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    Monthly Digest – June 2022

    June 30, 2022 - By 

    Here we are again….another monthly digest. How was June for you? If I had to sum it up in one word I would says Sweaty! It is just so hot and humid. LIFE Happenings Rob and I along with his brother Nick took a road trip to Omaha for the College World Series. Going through pics for that post now. I babysat for 2 full weekends over at my sis-in-law’s house. Here I am with the youngest this past weekend. Loving all my new Apple Watch bands. I need to take some pics of the new ones. I’m kind of…

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    Carnival Horizon 2022 – Little Havana and more

    June 27, 2022 - By 

    Today is the last Carnival Horizon post! This post is covering the day we got off the ship and what we did afterwards. Disembarkation day is never fun, but it really seemed to go better this time. The day before we picked up luggage tags. If memory serves there is an early group and later group. We picked the later group. However, I think everyone has to be off the ship by like 11am. I know its been forever since we’ve cruised, but again I thought it went easier and much less chaotic. We were off the ship, collected our…

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    iSpy #77

    June 25, 2022 - By 

    Hey everyone! Hope everyone is having a great Saturday. I am back from Omaha and the road trip back. I’ll have a post up about that soon. I am actually fighting a cold now, so that’s fun. Here are my takes on this week’s iSpy all from Omaha! Event College World Series – This was during the Star Spangled Banner with both teams; Auburn and Stanford Outfit – Quarterly – My outfits last week were Auburn tshirts and shorts, visors and sunglasses. So hot!! Played These teams played in the College World Series. Starts with U U is for Unique.…

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    iSpy #76

    June 20, 2022 - By 

    Hey, yall! Sorry I’m late getting this posted. I’m in Omaha, Nebraska watching the Auburn Tigers play in the College World Series and this is really the first opportunity to sit down and pull my lap top out. It’s hot here, but thankfully not humid and after the games I’m zonked! Anyway, hope everyone is having a great week! Front Yard – Quarterly – Didn’t get to snap this before we left. Spicy Peppers that got pulled off while walking in my sis-in-law’s garden Inside Looking down inside a bag of dark chocolate covered pecans from Thrive Market. Textured I…

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    iSpy #75

    June 11, 2022 - By 

    Weather – Quarterly Sharpen At the eye doctor to see if we need to ‘sharpen’ my eyesight any. By accident These potatoes got forgotten about and have sprouted by accident. Starts with N N is for nose. Thought this was a cute shot of Kaleigh on top of the stairs. Your Choice You are invited to the Inlinkz link party! Click here to enter I’d love you to join along with us next week! Challenge yourself this week to step out of your comfort zone. Get low, go high, change your angle, get close, back up. Do something different with…

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    Carnival Horizon 2022 – Amber Cove

    June 10, 2022 - By 

    Hey y’all! Back for another cruise post. Today I’m sharing our time in Amber Cover the Carnival port near Puerta Plata, Dominican Republic. When we arrived in Amber Cove, Dominican Republic, Rob and I headed to find our tour guide. We had booked The Best of Puerta Plata excursion. This is a tour that drives by many highlights of the city. You are able to get out for several of the stops as you’ll see below. Looking back at our ship Following our tour guide to our bus. Watching as we drive to our first stop Puerto Plata Cable Car…

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    Monthly Digest – May 2022

    June 6, 2022 - By 

    LIFE Happenings Basically we’ve been party animals in May, and I’m exhausted! haha Our good family friend’s son (who is also a good friend of our son, Drew) got married. Alex graduated! Drew bought a house and we threw him a housewarming party. Loving that May is over! Ha! Happy it’s summer. Excited to hopefully be done with year end performance reviews in the next week. Writing these are tedious and a bit aggravating with the new form we have to use this year. Dreading Alex possibly having his wisdom teeth out this month. Reminiscing about our Drew’s epic graduation…

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    iSpy #74

    June 4, 2022 - By 

    Window View – Quarterly Happy This is after Bigs got to run in his new backyard and was just so happy! Near By The food at the party was near by. Loud This one was difficult and just as I was walking around thinking about what was loud…She barked, so there ya go! Your Choice I got this new set of markers at work and of course I had to make a rainbow with them. You are invited to the Inlinkz link party! Click here to enter I’d love you to join along with us next week! Challenge yourself this…

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    Graduation Week 2022

    June 2, 2022 - By 

    I have so much to catch up on. May was a whirlwind especially the last 2 weeks. Today I’m recapping the fun week with Alex and his graduation activities. Senior Recognition The Sunday before graduation our church held their annual Senior Recognition. Back when Drew did it they did it during one of our church services. However, now they do a separate service in the afternoon. Here’s Alex and a couple friends signing the photo maps for each senior. This is the photo that went in the frame. Alex is in the back row: center left with glasses. Then they…

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    iSpy #73

    May 28, 2022 - By 

    backyard -quarterly – haven’t had a chance to take this pic…ill add soon together Glad to see these 3 together for Senior Sunday. starts with O O is for Orange! This one was hard. evening Evening at a baseball game Choose Anything (same vantage point) monthly – too busy to get by there. I made my monthly pic too hard to deal with… You are invited to the Inlinkz link party! Click here to enter I’d love you to join along with us next week! Challenge yourself this week to step out of your comfort zone. Get low, go high,…