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    Monthly Digest::10.2025

    November 5, 2025 - By 

    The past few weeks have been packed with travels, celebrations, and a few big life shifts. It’s been a lot, in the best way, and I’m finally sitting down to catch my breath and share a bit of it. LIFE Happenings 19 day vacation… Halloween party Run down of late September, early October: Week 39 & 40 Loving the memories from our vacation, which was so good!! Happy to have been able to mark such a huge thing off my Bucket List – transiting the Panama Canal. Excited to share about our trip. I have 1,000s of photos to go…

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    Monthly Digest::9.2025

    October 1, 2025 - By 

    September has been a swirl of preparation, celebration, and reflection. From backyard transformations to concert nights, work milestones to family shifts. As we inch closer to a long-awaited vacation, there’s a sense of movement, both outward and inward. This chapter captures the hum of everyday life, the bittersweet turns, and the quiet joys that make it all feel real. LIFE Happenings Back yard prep, LA time, getting ready for our vacation, Auburn football, and more! Week 35 & 36 Week 37 & 38 Week 39 & 40 Happy To be making progress with our backyard project. Excited to be headed…

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    Monthly Digest::7.2025

    August 8, 2025 - By 

    July 2025 has been a blend of sunshine, milestones, and those quiet moments that sneak up on you. Rob’s 50th was a highlight, the backyard dream is edging closer to reality, and July brought its share of good meals and social snapshots. Work’s humming along and I’ve been neck-deep in blog tweaks. As August begins, the school-year memories resurface—fuzzy backpacks, early bus stop waves—and the house, though quieter, still holds echoes of those days. Let’s catch up.

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    Monthly Digest::6.2025

    July 3, 2025 - By 

    LIFE Happenings Here’s my weekly posts to catch you up. Week 23 & 24 Week 25 & 26 Loving that I have gotten back into meal planning. Happy when she’s around… Excited to celebrate Rob’s 50th birthday next week. Reminiscing We’ve been talking about what we’re doing for 4th of July next year since its a big one for our country. 250 years!! Its made me think about our 4th of July during Drew’s high school graduation trip in the Pacific Northwest. That day in 2016 we explored Mount St. Helen’s as well as Lava Canyon and the Ape Caves.…

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    Monthly Digest::5.2025

    June 6, 2025 - By 

    Time to sum up another month. Here we are for May already! LIFE Happenings Here’s my weekly posts to catch you up. Week 19 & 20 Week 21 & 22 Loving the weather lately. It hasn’t been super hot here and I’m loving it! Happy So happy my Cologuard came back negative. No colonoscopy for me!! PTL!! Excited to hopefully get the ball rolling on more projects in the backyard. Reminiscing This from 2003 when Drew was in Kindergarten, with his best friend at the time Austin. They are both Daddy’s now with kids just a few month apart. Crazy!…

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    Monthly Digest::4.2025

    May 2, 2025 - By 

    March has come to an end so here we are for another Monthly Digest… LIFE Happenings Here’s my weekly posts to catch you up. Week 13 & 14 Week 15 & 16 Week 17 & 18 Loving being home with no company to just chill and get back to normal life. Happy any chance I get to spend with this little one. Her little arm wrapped around mine just killed me when I saw this picture. So sweet. Excited We got to go Vegas in April. I’ll hopefully be sharing about that in the next few weeks. Reminiscing I’ve been…

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    Monthly Digest::3.2025

    April 3, 2025 - By 

    March has come to an end so here we are for another Monthly Digest… LIFE Happenings Here’s my weekly posts to catch you up. Week 9 & 10 Week 11 & 12 Loving Auburn Basketball Happy anytime I get with L.A. Excited and completely anxiety ridden about the basketball game on Saturday night. Reminiscing In planning our trip to Vegas, I’ve been thinking back to our last time there. Desert Trip Social Dinner and a show (on 2 different nights) with my friend, Rebecca. As well as a seeing Mama Mia! with my daughter in law. Work Memories Strategic Plans…

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    Monthly Digest::2.2025

    March 3, 2025 - By 

    LIFE Happenings Grand baby came into the world! As many visits that we’re allowed. AU Baseball AU Basketball Week 5 & 6 Week 7 & 8 Loving Life as LyLy (Grandmother to L.A.) Happy Happy to get some really pretty photos of L.A. for her newborn photo shoot. Leading up to it, I was so nervous. I did so much research. When we first got started it was going terribly. She was awake and the lighting wasn’t good. I was like these are gonna be terrible. We finally got her to sleep and ended up moving to another area in…

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    Monthly Digest::1.2025

    February 1, 2025 - By 

    LIFE Happenings Cruise Snow days AU Basketball AU Gymnastics Week 1 & 2 Week 3 & 4 Loving The Apple TV+ show SHRINKiNG with Harrison Ford and Jason Segel. Happy that January is over?!?!? Excited for Granddaughter to be here this month! Work Memories The never ending cycle of training thanks to having to cancel our big training day because of an unnecessary snow day. Current Project Trying to get caught up with blog posts. Getting house clean and organized again. Drew is going to be a dad very soon. Alex has been coming to Sunday lunches and I just…