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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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    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,…

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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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    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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    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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    Memories of the Month {5.2021}

    June 7, 2021 - By 

    This month I was happy about: my hip pain is better. Hoping it stays that way. Here’s my rating system for entertainment: ♥ ♥ = Love it! A must read/see! ♥ = Really good! Highly recommend. ✓ ✓ = Good, not great ✓ = Not much to talk about X = Awful. Total waste of time Movies I watched were: no movies TV Shows I watched were: Good Girls (NBC App) Season 4 ✓ For Life (ABC App) Season 2 ✓ Ginny & Georgia (Netflix) ✓ ✓ – Finished Season 1 This is Us (NBC App) ♥ ♥ New Amsterdam…

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    What’s Up Wednesday ~ May 2021

    June 6, 2021 - By 

    I’m actually so late posting this that I missed the deadline to link up to Shay and Sheaffer for What’s Up Wednesday, but better late than never! What We’re Eating Lasagna I’m still in a cooking rut and I’m sorta trying to eat healthier which makes things more difficult. Blah! What I’m Reminiscing About back in 2016 right before Drew graduated and his last Disney Dinner Theater. What I’m Loving I’ve been in weird mood, but lately Arby’s roast beef has been my go to fast food when I need a really quick lunch. What We’ve Been Up To Just…

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    Week 20 & 21 [2021]

    June 4, 2021 - By 

    Trying to catch up! I just realized we’re in a new month already. I don’t know what it is about the last week of nearly every month, but they seem to be nonexistent. They fly by in the blink of an eye and just when I think I might actually get ahead of the game that’s the week that disappears and once again I’m behind. Anyway, I’m going to try and get my end of month posts up as soon as I can! Here’s the weekly posts from the last 2 weeks, May 17th-30th, 2021! Rob and I ate at…

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    Memorial Day Weekend 2021

    June 3, 2021 - By 

    We were so happy to be able to go to the lake this year for Memorial Day. We raced out to lake trying to beat the rain. We camp out at the lake so we were anxious to get everything set up. We ended up getting the big tent up just enough so we could stand under it before it started really pouring down. The rain let off enough so we could get our sleeping tent set up, and we knew there were holes in the rainfly. We usually get so lucky with rain so we’ve never had the reality…

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    iSpy #21

    May 31, 2021 - By 

    I’m sorry I’m late getting this posted again this week. Thursday night we had a family emergency that I can’t talk about right now. If you’re the praying type my family would appreciate any prayers you can send our way. Anyway, on to my pics for iSpy #21! smooth Not sure you can tell from this picture but these leaves are really smooth. window My bedroom window pattern red Spotted this lady bug in the front yard while doing some yard work the other day. your choice This is a gorgeous cactus is huge. It’s at my Linda’s house in…

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    iSpy #20

    May 22, 2021 - By 

    Sorry to get this post up late, but Rob’s Gramma passed away Thursday night. We ended up driving down to Florida last night to be with family for support. So we’re here now. All my pics are taken around Rob’s grandparent’s house. house (spring) – quarterly pic I’m not at home, so I’ll post this when I get back. upside down Drew standing by the pool. happy things Flowers make me happy and these orchids are so perfect I thought they were fake at first. ink This was a note Drew wrote to Gramma and Grampa one time when were…

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    Week 19 [2021]

    May 17, 2021 - By 

    Week 19 is May 10-16, 2021. Last week started off with our church having a “Welcome Home” event to bring every one back to reintroduce church activities and celebrate church reopening. There was a petting zoo with lots of cute animals. In the garden I planted some tomatoes using the no dig method, where you pile fresh compost up and plant seedlings. I went to TJMaxx and got Kayleigh a new toy. She loves new toys with squeakers inside. She disembowels them, quickly removing the squeaker only to have us pick it up and not letting her chew up that…

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    iSpy #19

    May 15, 2021 - By 

    Selfie (Spring) – quarterly pic Nuts Sticker I saw these super cute stickers at Target yesterday. Blue So I got all the blue magnets from my office and was trying to line them up and they kept moving. Then I figured out that if I lined them up with corners touching they didn’t move. Your Choice I loved the way the water droplet is sitting in the leaf. 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…

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    Week 18 [2021]

    May 13, 2021 - By 

    Week 18 was May 3-9, 2021. Another week of being in the office. I’m not missing being at home as much. Honestly too busy to have much time to ponder on it. 🙂 Here’s a few highlights from the week. Muddy girl! This girl loves to dig and stick her nose down the chipmunk holes. She is so funny. She won’t look at me because she knows I’m not happy with her. I’ve been wanting some new t-shirts. I think mainly working from home for the last year, I’ve been wearing mostly tshirts everyday. I have gotten tired of the…

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    iSpy #18

    May 8, 2021 - By 

    Welcome back to another iSpy! Let’s jump straight into the prompts! Mail How You Feel Today I took this pic one day this week when I was at work and was feeling a little bit annoyed and so the fan and my airpods always help me block out everything out and concentrate. Reduce-Reuse-Recycle Shoot from the hip – (put your camera at waist or hip level – don’t look through the view finder…see what you got!) This is a cool technique I learned way back in the day when I really got into photography. It’s really best to try this…

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    Currently – May 2021

    May 6, 2021 - By 

    How is everyone doing? I am just trying to keep my head above water right now and unfortunately my blogging life is and might continue suffering for a bit. I’m hoping to find a rhythm with being back in the office full time and trying to continue being on top of house work, family life, and blogging. Anyway, how are we in the 5th month of the year already! Wow! Today I’m linking up with one of my favorite linkups, Currently. /consuming/ I mentioned before that I tried Spindrifts recently and really like them. Pineapple is my favorite variety so…

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    Week 17 [2021]

    May 3, 2021 - By 

    Week 17 was April 26-May 2, 2021, which happened to be my week in the office. Getting home every afternoon, I collapsed in exhaustion at least for a bit. Then it’s up to cook dinner or do work in the garden. I still have so much to do in the garden. I’m actually way behind on planting, but I just haven’t wanted to fight the mosquitoes and really don’t have the energy. Anyway, on Thursday night, we went to the Korean BBQ place to celebrates Rob’s brother’s birthday. Unfortunately the restaurant was not a great experience. On another note, I…

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    iSpy #17

    May 1, 2021 - By 

    Backyard (Spring) – quarterly pic Working it Together Light The way the sunlight was hitting on this tree was really pretty. Your Choice Toomer’s Corner This week I continued to use my new iPhone 12 Pro. You are invited to the Inlinkz link party! Click here to enter I’d love you to join along with us next week! A couple simple guidelines.. 1. Anyone can participate. 2. Since this challenge is meant to help you expand your eye for photography, try to take five new photos this week for the challenge. Or do as many as you got! 3. If…