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    Week 49:2023

    December 14, 2023 - By 

    Here we are for another highlight post for week Dec. 4-10 2023 Old couches New couches…They very much look the same, but they are different brands. We’re just happy to have firmer couches that aren’t so dilapidated. We got our yard smoothed out and resodded. To God be the Glory! What a beautiful sunset I got to see one night when I was out getting some shopping done. Every year at my work holiday lunch, they draw names for door prizes. In the 12 years, I’ve been here I’ve never won. I finally won!! I picked out this pretty tree.…

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    Week 48:2023

    December 8, 2023 - By 

    Another week down (Nov. 27-Dec 3, 2023) and how are we so close to the end of the year?!?!? This is not deja vu or a picture from a month ago. Yes, we had to have more of our yard dug up…luckily only dirt this time and not driveway. Our water main had a leak in it. I’m thankful we hadn’t had our yard fixed and resodded yet. We saw Mean Girls at the Gogue. It was pretty good. Saturday, we went and got our tree. Drew and Caitlyn also got a tree. It was supposed to be monsooning that…

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    Monthly Digest – November 2023

    November 30, 2023 - By 

    LIFE Happenings Here’s my weekly posts to catch you up. Week 44 Week 45-46 Week 47 Loving the cooler weather. Happy for this time of year…I guess. More on that below… Excited to go on our cruise in December! Reminiscing This is the time of year to think back to previous Thanksgivings and Christmases. Social In November, we went to some friends’ house for our bible study and fellowship. Work Memories My boss is moving to another position in the library, which is a total bummer. He will still oversee our department and if I decide to apply for his…

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    Week 47:2023 (Thanksgiving Week)

    November 28, 2023 - By 

    Here we are for our weekly highlights for Thanksgiving Week (Nov 20-26, 2023). Basketball game with Rob. Got to see one of my student workers dance during a timeout as she is a Tiger Paw. Thanksgiving Day Snacks to get us by till dinner. What a spread! My kids and their other halves and their little cousin Drew is so good with his cousins. Lots of work and fun in the kitchen! Alex made from scratch a pumpkin cheese cake and that was the best cheesecake I’ve ever tasted! Love that he’s sharing his chef skills with us. He also…

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    Week 45-46:2023

    November 20, 2023 - By 

    Here we are for my weekly rundown of Week 45 & 46 (Nov 6-12 & 13-19, 2023) Got all my pottery back I worked an Walk to Emmaus Christian retreat over that weekend. When I got back on Saturday, even though I was exhausted, we went to Piccolo to watch our friend, Matthew Kaminski (Atlanta Brave’s Organist) play jazz. New tables in some of the study room. Not a great picture, but one you can see is down like a normal table and hte other one is tilted up so that you can write on it New boots I also…

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    Week 44:2023

    November 6, 2023 - By 

    Here we are for another weekly highlights for Week 44 – Oct. 30-Nov 5, 2023 With Rob being out of town I got a lot done. I organized our extra closet in our bedroom. Before: After: My current favorite candle I sat down the other day and felt something on my arm and ended up finding this guy, who I think must have landed on my when I was outside. I ended up putting him a jar and letting him go outside. The fall colors are just amazing right now. On Halloween, I made a Keto friendly pumpkin bread. I…

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    Week 43:2023

    November 3, 2023 - By 

    Week 43…(Oct. 23-29, 2023) Just a few highlights from last week to share… Work share board – A coworker of mine puts a new theme for anyone in our department to add to. Last week, we “Added a Cat.” Here’s mine: Friday on the way home, I saw these guys flying overhead, which was a practice for the flyover on Saturday. I love living in a college town! We had Bigsby on Friday since they were getting ready for the party. I took him for a walk/run. I blogged about the Halloween Party>>>2023 Saturday, Rob and I went to the…

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    Halloween Party 2023

    November 2, 2023 - By 

    Drew and Caitlyn threw Halloween Party the Friday before Halloween. I did kind of a bad job taking pictures, like I didn’t even get a picture of them together. Oh well… Anyway, the party was great! Good punch Every detail thought of…If you can’t tell these are their wedding photos that Caitlyn put a filter on to make people look like zombies. All gluten free food Fun games…Corn hole and Washers Pumpkin carving contest…We brought pumpkins already carved and everyone voted. Drew’s Sailor Aubie Rob’s step dad won with this eagle cut out. Good costumes Both sets of grandparents went…

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    Monthly Digest – October 2023

    November 1, 2023 - By 

    Happy November!! These months just continue to fly by. LIFE Happenings Here’s my weekly posts to catch you up. Week 39 Week 40 & 41 Week 42 Loving I am loving my slipper house shoes. I got these a few months ago and there just so soft and cozy. Happy that the weather is cooler. Excited to be getting back into a better workout routine since the weather is tolerable now. Reminiscing about previous Halloweens Social Bible study on Wednesday nights and Sunday school Work Memories Had to have students sign an agreement about cell phone use while at the…

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    Watching & Listening – September & October 23

    October 27, 2023 - By 

    Hello! It’s time for another watching and listening post, where I share what I’ve been watching and listening to the last 2 months. Last month I wrote about my recent YouTube obsessions: YouTube – August & September 23 Find me on my favorite TV Watching app: TV Time app Jump to: Movies  |  TV Shows  |  Podcasts  |  Music Movies no movies… TV Shows Shows Season 5 of Virgin River (Netflix) – This is one my favorite shows on Netflix over the years. Can’t wait for the next the last 2 episodes to come out at some point. Murdaugh Murders…

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    Week 42:2023

    October 26, 2023 - By 

    Week 42…(Oct. 16-22, 2023) Here’s a few highlights from last week… I love that they lay next to each other. Before we had the new driveway put in…You can read about that here. Saturday I had to go to Wetumpka for a training. I snapped this picture while driving through Tallassee on my way home. Sunday we went on a family walk with our dogs at new to us park in Auburn. Isn’t funny how new things come to your city and you don’t know for years? I also added the Halloween pieces to the fall decor. What were your…

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    Our Recent “Low”

    October 24, 2023 - By 

    So in my last weekly post, I referred to a “low” and all has been resolved with this so I can talk about it now. You know, owning a house is great until you have a major issue occur. Last year we had some drainage issues and we had a roto rooter type company come out and they ended up finding a broken line that goes out to the sewer. Some how they were able to clear it enough where our plumber told us, its good for now. You might be able to have it cleared a time or two…

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    Week 40 & 41:2023

    October 20, 2023 - By 

    Here we are for another catch up weekly highlights post for Oct 2-8 & Oct 9-15! I’ll say these last 2 weeks have been filled some highs and a major low. I’m just going to cover the highs in this post. I’m going to write a post on the major low when everything is resolved. >>>Read about it here. In pottery class we learned how to glaze our pieces. I had a lot of pieces to glaze and took a while. Rob and Drew went to the big rivalry game Auburn High vs Opelika. Auburn came back and won in…

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    Wedding::Reception Part 2

    October 9, 2023 - By 

    Here we are for the last wedding photo post!! This is part 2 of the wedding reception. If you are also planning to propose to your partner, you may start by purchasing one of these art deco engagement rings Australia. So much fun dancing. The band was just spectacular, so entertaining. Everyone was raving about them. Now officially brother and sister My crazy nephew loving the dance floor Alex and Mads Andrew doing the worm My sister and me. So glad she could come! Group shots were taken throughout the night. This is all my family that was there. Good…

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    Week 39:2023

    October 6, 2023 - By 

    Here we are for week 39 (Sept. 25-Oct. 1), which ended with my birthday celebrations over the weekend. The sunrise on Monday was spectacular! I had to go over to Tiger town for dog food and decided to make more of the trip and went over to TJMaxx while I was out that way. I got these chips that are made form Quinoa. Delish!! My pottery class creations Real life people… Still getting some pretty flowers from the garden even though most of it needs to be torn out. I decorated for fall, which helped my bad mood. Got a…

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    Monthly Digest – September 2023

    September 29, 2023 - By 

    LIFE Happenings Here’s my weekly posts to catch you up. Week 35 & 26 Week 37 & 38 Loving that it is finally feeling a bit like fall! Happy to celebrate my birthday this weekend. Excited for the weather to continue to be pretty (hopefully). Reminiscing back to other Septembers. I found this post I wrote last year about birthdays, which was fun to look back at. Social honestly…too much social this month. Totally draining and honestly its effecting my mental health. (Bucket draining) Work Memories Our new guy started and I’m happy to have that hiring process done. Let’s…

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    Week 37 & 38:2023

    September 25, 2023 - By 

    Happy Monday, yall! I feel like I blinked and the weekend was over. I’m tired this morning. Here we are for a double of my weekly highlights (Sept. 11-17 & 18-24). I don’t feel like the last 2 weeks have been that eventful at least that’s not what’s showing up on my iphone camera rolls. Alex and Madison came over to discuss a potential cruise at Christmas. The night before Alex had to go to the ER to get 4 stitches in his forehead from a shelf falling on him at work. He’s ok, but sitting in the ER for…

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    Week 35 & 36:2023

    September 11, 2023 - By 

    Last week, I was working hard on finishing and posting the last 2 Desert Trip posts, which you can find here if you missed them >>>> Day 6 / Day 7. So here we are catching up with the last 2 weekly posts (Aug. 28-Sept. 3 & Sept. 4-10, 2023) On August 30th, Rob and I celebrated 26 years of marriage! We went out to the Waverly Local for dinner and drinks. On Sunday, Caitlyn celebrated her 27th birthday. We went over to her Drew’s house so Rob could see their backyard they’ve been working on. We hung out before…

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    Watching & Listening – July & August 23

    August 31, 2023 - By 

    Hello! It’s time for another watching and listening post, where I share what I’ve been watching and listening to the last 2 months. Last month I wrote about my recent YouTube obsessions: YouTube – June & July 23 Oh, we finally pulled the plug on “old” cable. We have add AT&T Uverse for years, but they continued to go up and up on price. They were trying to price us out of it, because they really don’t want to support it anymore. We finally made the switch to Direct TV stream, so we’ve joined the 21st century and are streaming…

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    Monthly Digest – August 2023

    August 30, 2023 - By 

    Here we are for another end of month post. Everything from the good and the bad talked about here! LIFE Happenings Here’s my weekly posts to catch you up. Week 32 Week 32 Week 33 Week 34 Loving I’m loving the No Sugar Added Klondike Ice Cream Bars. Yummy! I try to only eat 1 or 2 a week, but it’s hard when I know they’re in the freezer. Happy to be done with the our candidate search for the position that we had open in my department. We recently made the offer and it was accepted. This person should…