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    iSpy #72

    May 23, 2022 - By 

    hidden Some of the letters are ‘hidden’ behind the gutter drain on good old Parker Hall. brick I love the perfection of the brick on campus particularly on Samford Lawn. mixed up We were in Newnan, GA for a wedding this past weekend. Outside the chapel next to the church where the wedding was was this colorfully painted piano with mixed up colors that was an advertisement for VBS coming up this summer. selfie mode – take a picture with your phone in selfie mode (doesn’t need to be an actual selfie!) I did a cat selfie instead. your choice…

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    iSpy #71

    May 14, 2022 - By 

    Spot in Town – Quarterly Starts with M M is for Magnolia. The Magnolia Tree is found between the sidewalk and the parking deck near my building at work. I had been walking on the other side on the sidewalk and noticed some Magnolia blooms and decided on my way back I just had to stop for some photos. I loved the way this one turned out. at last While walking on campus, I walked by old…old…Parker Hall and at last took some pictures of it. One day it will come down. in the moment As I walked back to…

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    Carnival Horizon 2022 – La Romana

    May 13, 2022 - By 

    Here’s probably my favorite day off the Carnival Horizon. The day we were in La Romana, Dominican Republic we got there around a 11, so we had time in the morning to go to ‘sit down’ breakfast. It was nice to not have to get up super early and just be able to go a little slower that morning. Here we are waiting for clearance to get off the ship. We were all excited for an excursion day. No renting a car in the D.R.!! The excursion was called Monkeyland & Dominican Flavors for Families. We loaded an air-conditioned bus…

  • Life

    Monthly Digest – April 2022

    May 8, 2022 - By 

    Traveling at the end of the month really messes me up when it comes to blogging! Here we are for another Monthly Digest! LIFE Happenings Why is that at the end of every month I can’t remember all that went on!?!?! That’s the exact reason I write these posts. Haha! -Saw Toto & Journey in concert in New Orleans -Bridal shower for our friend’s finance -Easter -Watched my nephew play LaX Loving when we get to eat lunch with Drew. Happy for safe and fun travels we had in April. Excited for a crazy busy month. Dreading change. I’ll just…

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    iSpy #70

    May 7, 2022 - By 

    Plant – quarterly Inside Out This was a hard one. Kayleigh is both inside and out. Split This weed split into a Y shape. **shrugs** at this difficult prompt. LOL Green Close up of a snake plant Your Choice We picked up 2 full wheel-borrows of pinecones and sticks before Rob mowed the yard today! Back…is..hurting… 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.…

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    Watching & Listening – April 2022

    May 6, 2022 - By 

    In April, we kind of just held steady with all the same shows. We are trying to catch up on our DVR from being gone 2+ weeks in March and April. Here is my previous posts to show what we’re catching up on… January 2022 – February 2022 – March 2022 I have started watching some new YouTube channels, but I’ll share those in a YouTube post at some point. In case you missed my Spring YouTube watching post. Music In April I listed to a lot more of Journey. I already listen to them quite a bit on the…

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    Carnival Horizon 2022 – Day in Bonaire

    May 5, 2022 - By 

    I really hope you’re enjoying all these cruise posts. Travel posts do take quite a long time to put together, but I love having them to look back on and remember our time. Today I’m sharing about our day in Bonaire. Views from our ship as we wait to get the all clear 12°8’53.34″ N 68°16’39.76″ W Bonaire is an island in the Leeward Antilles in the Caribbean Sea. Its capital is Kralendijk, near the ocean on the lee side of the island. Aruba, Bonaire and Curaçao form the ABC islands, 80 km (50 miles) off the coast of Venezuela.…

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    Currently::May 2022

    May 4, 2022 - By 

    I didn’t realize it was time for another Currently post until I saw my fellow bloggers posting them today! So here we are! ::consuming:: Last week I was consuming lots of BBQ and sweet stuff. This week I need to be consuming all the healthy things, but I’m not. ::feeling:: a bit overwhelmed with all the things. Work wise, it’s time to hire for summer and start writing my self-evaluation that will be due soon. Life wise, graduation time and all the things that go with graduation and company. We have a wedding we’re attending and helping with the weekend…

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    iSpy #69

    May 2, 2022 - By 

    Hey iSpyers! I have been out of town this last week and I had hoped to be have time today to start looking through my photos to post, but I am slammed. I figured I’d go ahead and get this posted even without pics. I will come back at come point this week and post my pics. Hope everyone is doing well! On Your Plate – quarterly Kansas City BBQ Outside Walking around the Gateway Arch outside is such a beautiful place. Starts with T T is for Trunk. Artwork made from tree stumps/trunks. Where You Are Now? If you’ve…

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    iSpy #68

    April 25, 2022 - By 

    along the way Had no idea what to do for this one. I had thought about snapping a shot as we drove to or from Louisiana last weekend, but I’m not sure I took any or at least can’t find them right now. Here’s a pic of some interesting hot sauce I found as we shopped along the way to find some crawfish… black and white Missy is black and white. overdue This one was hard, but we finally were able to visit family in Baton Rouge, so I would say that getting these 2nd cousins together was overdue! branched…

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    Carnival Horizon 2022 – Afternoon in Aruba

    April 19, 2022 - By 

    Today I’m sharing my final post about Aruba for this cruise and there is still a lot to cover so its gonna be long. 🙂 After leaving Arikok National Park, it was time to plug my phone into the radio so we could follow along with the app I had purchased and listen to descriptions of places to drive by or stop at. We have used the GyPSy Guide app before while traveling and loved it. However they don’t have one for Aruba, so after some research we decided on the Action Tour Guide Aruba (The Full tour). For this…

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    iSpy #67

    April 18, 2022 - By 

    WorkSpace – quarterly Out of the blue I’ll write more about this past weekend (hence the reason this post is late getting up.) We were in New Orleans Friday and we spent the afternoon walking around. This baby goat just appeared out of the blue. He was so cute. Starts with B B is for Band…Journey to be exact. The reason we were in New Orleans on Friday. Apple Your Choice Don’t know why but I love this shot I snapped while walking around New Orleans. Just a windowscape showing off all the local stuff. You are invited to the…

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    Carnival Horizon 2022 – Arikok National Park

    April 16, 2022 - By 

    Who knew I’d be writing so many posts about Aruba, but I really just think breaking our day down into smaller chunks make for better posts. I hope you agree! So today I’m sharing about the time we spent in Arikok National Park, Aruba. We came through the SouthEast entrance Vader Piet. 12°27’58.122″ N 69°53’33.612″ W (Just a reminder some of the pictures will have GPS coordinates that link to that location on Google Maps in case you want to go to that spot on future travels. If one of the pictures doesn’t have coordinates after it, it means its…

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    Carnival Horizon 2022 – Pet Cemetery on Aruba Beach

    April 14, 2022 - By 

    I’m continuing on with details of our day in Aruba. After leaving our lunch spot, we passed Baby Beach. 12°24’55.848″ N 69°52’57.264″ W Not too far from there as we continued along the coast we happened across a huge Pet Cemetery. Around 1924, Lago Oil & Transport Co. was building Lago Colony now known as Seroe Colorado for their employees of the oil refinery in San Nicholas, the people started burying their pets here in this secluded place. Through the years the burying of pets has continued and it now stretches almost a mile long. (source) 12°25’15.642″ N 69°52’19.662″ W…

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    Monthly Digest – March 2022

    April 11, 2022 - By 

    Here we are nearly halfway through April and I realized I hadn’t written my monthly digest for March. So here we are… LIFE Happenings We celebrated Alex’s birthday. Still can’t believe my baby is 18! Did a few rounds of physical therapy for my right shoulder and arm. https://acameraandacookbook.com/week-8-9-2022/ Week 10 Loving the weather right now. Not ready for it to get really hot though. Happy I’ve started listening to Audio books. I’ve got a couple from March I still need to write about. Excited that Auburn baseball is doing so well. Dreading nothing in April that I can think…

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    Currently::April 2022

    April 7, 2022 - By 

    /getting/ Finally, getting my house back in order after being on vacation. So much to deal with after having to buy 8 days worth of clothes and we ended up not using everything we bought, so I’ve got to return a bunch of stuff to Walmart. Unpacking bags that never got opened during vacation…Read about that here. /going/ Hmmm…I guess this weekend I’ll be going to an AU baseball game (nothing new there) and a bridal shower/lunch for Drew’s best friend’s fiance. /planning/ We just booked another cruise for July. The deals for Carnival VIFP (Very Important Fun Person) members…

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    iSpy #65

    April 2, 2022 - By 

    This week’s pics are actually from our trip that we got home from on Monday. It is so hard to come back from being gone 10 days, so I’m struggling to get unpacked and everything. trees Palm trees in Aruba scenery outfit – quarterly This is a new dress (in the suitcase that my in-laws brought) that I wore for one of the formal nights on the cruise. My dress shoes I had planned to wear for this night were in the lost suitcase, so I settled for these shoes that were in my carry on. Starts with D D…

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    Watching & Listening – March 2022

    March 31, 2022 - By 

    WOW! Here we are wrapping up another month. Here’s what I watched this month. Jump to: Movies  |  TV Shows  |  Music Movies Begin Again – (Netflix) Not really sure how I feel about this movie. I watched it on the plane coming back from Miami and while I fell asleep for a bit, I went back and watched the bit I missed. It stars Keira Knightley, Mark Ruffalo, Adam Levine, and James Corden. Anyone else watched this one? TV Shows New Shows This Month True Detective – Season 3 (HBOMax) Pieces of Her (Netflix) The Thing about Pam (NBC)…

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    iSpy #64

    March 26, 2022 - By 

    Today I’m in the Caribbean Sea heading back to Miami enjoying our last day at sea. So these pics are from the weeks leading up to our cruise. lined I love spring. These pretty yellow flowers lined the branch and I had to stop for a picture. spiral This tree fungus growing on this dead stump looks like pencil shavings spotted Rob and I were on a walk a couple weeks ago and I had first noticed a medium sized hawk flying and then perched on this tree. Then, Rob spotted this bird and then I realized it was an…

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    iSpy #63

    March 19, 2022 - By 

    This post has been scheduled out because today I’m in Miami and will be getting a ship here in a few hours. Front Yard – Quarterly Propped I don’t ever prop my feet up on my desk, but I did for this pic to show off my new camo pants from Old Navy. So comfy. Starts with C C is for Construction. This is the construction of a new Publix grocery store a block from campus. Through Empty bookshelves Your Choice Spring brings weeds…This weed lurking from the stairs leading to my front door makes me smile. You are invited…