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    Share Our Lives: 5 Favorite and Least Favorite Foods

    May 13, 2024 - By 

    5 Favorite Foods Burgers Pizza Chips and Hummus particularly this kind Fresh Cravings Jalapeno Cilantro Hummus Mexican food (fajitas are my go to on low carb – no tortillas or rice) Chocolate I was looking at most loved/hated foods by Americans and I saw that a lot of people don’t like onions, ranch dressing, olives, and cilantro. I love all these things!! What about you? 5 Least Favorite Foods Tofu Oysters Anchovies Liver (organ meat in general) Spam ~~~~~~~~~~~Feel free to jump in with the link up on one of these blogs: Joanne / Dara / Adrienne / Jen /…

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    Share Our Lives: Favorite Make Up and Hair Products

    April 8, 2024 - By 

    I’m pretty low maintenance when it comes to hair and make up, but here’s what I use. My daily getting ready routine consists of… 1. putting this on my neck Gold Bond Age Renew Neck & Chest Firming Cream 2. using this NeutrogenaTinted Facial Moisturizer and Retinol Treatment with Broad Spectrum SPF 20 3. Maybelline Fit Me Loose Setting Powder 4. eye liner Maybelline Unstoppable Waterproof Eyeliner – Black –For special occasions or just wanted to feel prettier, I put neutral matte eye shadow on and mascara. I would like to find a long lasting lipstick. My hair is either…

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    Watching on YouTube (Feb/Mar 24)

    March 26, 2024 - By 

    Here’s some of what I’ve been watching in February and March on YouTube. Kayla Stroup [41.2K subscribers – 66 videos] – Renovating – Kayla shares about renovating her 100 year old mansion and I really enjoy seeing her updates. Fun with Louis [1.99M subscribers – 1.9K videos] – Lifestyle – Louis has recently shared a life update and videos about updating his bus in Costa Rica. Raya and Louis [163K subscribers – 165 videos] – Lifestyle/Travel – Louis (mentioned above) and his wife, Raya are finally back in Costa Rica, where they are building their lives and their doing a…

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    Share Our Lives: 5 Items You Can’t Live Without

    March 11, 2024 - By 

    Here we are for another Share Our Lives post. Today we’re sharing 5 things you can’t live without. I tried thinking about things I use everyday. Most of these are just creature comforts and honestly I could live without them, but they make life easier/better. So here they are in no particular order. My laptop – MacBook Pro My cell phone – I keep up with so much stuff. Photos, taking my meds, lots of health stuff actually, my calendar, my journal. My house shoes – so cozy and comfy My car – Honda Pilot – She’s old and has…

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    Share Our Lives – How I Met My Hubby

    February 12, 2024 - By 

    It’s time for another Share Our Lives post. Today we’re sharing about how we met our significant other, which I’ve actually written about in several posts. You can start reading about here>>> Beginning. However, if you’re not interested in the long story, to sum it up in 3 words; We met online! I don’t have a ton of pics of us from then, because you know back in the 1990’s, we didn’t carry cameras around with us like we do now. 🙂 ~~~~~~~~~~~ Feel free to jump in with the link up on one of these blogs: Joanne / Dara…

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    Share Our Lives: Intro & Jobs

    January 10, 2024 - By 

    Today I’m linking up with all the ladies (Joanne, Dara, Adrienne, Jen, and Sarah) from what used to be the link up called “Not Just a Mom.” However, this year they renamed it “Share Our Lives.” Today we’re introducing ourselves and sharing about our current/previous jobs. So to start off, I’m Lysha – (pronounced like Lisa with the shhhh sound). I’m a 48 year old Texas girl, who has lived in Alabama since 1996. I moved to Auburn to be with my boyfriend at the time, who is now my husband. We’ve been married nearly 27 years. We have 2…

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    Watching on YouTube (2023 Favorites)

    December 4, 2023 - By 

    Hey ya’ll! Today for my YouTube post, I decided to post my favorite channels for each category. I wish YouTube would allow you to run some report to see which channels you watched the most for a time period. Anyway, for each category I picked my favorite YouTuber based on which channel popped into my mind the category was typed out. I didn’t want to analyze it too much and make it so complicated and I also felt this was the truest ‘winner’ for each category. Hiking Little Skittle [12.6K subscribers – 166 videos] – Little Skittle (Becca) hiked a…

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    Watching on YouTube (August & September 23)

    October 11, 2023 - By 

    Today I’m sharing some of favorite YouTube channels lately (August & September) in no particular order. Someone recently asked how I watch so much YouTube and honestly, I’m not sure. I guess I’m not nearly as busy with no kids at home anymore. My typical afternoon routine after getting off work, which I usually get off around 3:30pm (when I don’t have a pottery class or Bible study) goes something like this: I run my errands (pick up groceries, go through the car wash, etc.) Come home and change clothes. Do my 35 minute walk and then take Kayleigh on…

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    Desert Trip – Day 7

    September 10, 2023 - By 

    Here we are for our LAST Desert trip journal. If you missed my previous posts from our Desert trip check those out >>>> Desert Trip Day 7 was a long day that leads into our flight home that was a red eye into Monday morning. I’ll talk more about that near the end of the post. We ate breakfast at our hotel and discovered while scrolling through social media that there was a shooting back near home in Dadeville, AL just about 20 miles from Auburn. So sad. Anyway, we took a minute to pray for anyone affected by that…

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    Watching on YouTube (Spring 23)

    April 25, 2023 - By 

    As I’m trying to catch up on posts like Watching & Listening that I recently shared>>> Nov22-April23, I knew I was behind on YouTube posts too. When looking back I realized it was April of last year when I did that last post! Geez! Um…ok… So I’m going to recap what I’ve watched on a regular basis on YouTube so far this year like I did last year. I’ve broken each category down to still watching, newly added channels, and just watch here and there. Travel Still Watch Regularly Kara and Nate [3.48M subscribers – 910 Videos] As their YouTube…

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    A Sad Goodbye

    November 16, 2022 - By 

    I mentioned we had to go out of town for a funeral. I had started writing details about what happened, but really this isn’t my story to share. What I will share is that Drew’s fiance’s mom passed away. At 47… It wasn’t a surprise. She’s been sick for years. It was still the saddest thing. During our time down in Florida, I had 2 new experiences. 1. I witnessed someone on their death bed. That is hard. The beautiful thing that I witnessed, however, was getting to see Drew comfort Caitlyn as she sat there and watched her mom…

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    Labor Day Weekend 2022

    September 21, 2022 - By 

    We had a really good Labor Day weekend, so I thought I’d share about it. On Saturday, it was the 1st Auburn football game of the season. Rob had to get to the stadium early for work, so I rode with Drew & Caitlyn to campus. It was a fun game. In the 2nd half there was lightening, which we couldn’t see. It ended up getting closer, so the game was delayed. We hung out in the corridors of the stadium, but we kept seeing lots of lightening. We elected to wait for the rain to slow down and then…

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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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    Books I Read – March 2022

    April 15, 2022 - By 

    I have finally (I hope) found a routine that is working pretty well for reading listening to audio books. Something made me look at the eBooks available for my local pubic library and then I noticed audio books. I ended up checking out this first one and have found listening to them while I get ready for work in the morning and trying to make sure I get through an hour each day seems to be a habit, I’m enjoying and can stick with. I’ll Be There (But I’ll Be Wearing Sweatpants): Finding Unfiltered, Real-Life Friendships in This Crazy, Chaotic…

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    What I Watched on YouTube on the Regular (Spring 22)

    April 10, 2022 - By 

    In 2021, I did quarterly posts about the channels I had been watching. Fall 2020 |  Summer 2021 |  Winter/Spring 2021 |  Fall 2021 I found there’s a core set of channels I watch on a regular basis. As soon as a new video comes out, I watch it. Today I decided to share the channels I watch like TV Shows and then throughout the year, I will share new channels I’m watching or favorite videos, etc. Travel Kara and Nate [2.98M subscribers – 829 Videos] – Kara and Nate are quite popular and for good reason. Their videography and editing is on…

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    Sentence a Day – June 2021

    July 4, 2021 - By 

    1 / Tuesday – Met Rob and Alex for lunch at Beyond the Wok. Neighborhood turkey – Not sure where this turkey lives or if he just hangs out in our neighborhood. He shows up every few weeks and just struts around. 2 / Wednesday – First time PT for Alex this morning. 3 / Thursday – This morning while heading into work, I noticed this squirrel had a huge piece of food. Looked like a piece of a bun. This picture doesn’t do this justice. I couldn’t get close enough. 4 / Friday – Alex got his 1st vaccine.…

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    The Weekly [10.18-24.2020]

    October 26, 2020 - By 

    Here’s my run down from last week that I call “The Weekly.” How was last week for you? I worked from home and didn’t really have a lot going on, which if you know me…You know I love! Oh I almost forgot. Last Sunday I got together with a few of my friends from Cookbook Club. This was our first gathering since COVID. We didn’t bring food to share. We just brought our own food/drink. We sat outside on Joscie’s front porch and enjoyed conversations while socially distanced of course! It was so good to have some girl time. No…

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    YouTube Channel Favorites – Fall 2020

    October 17, 2020 - By 

    I promised a while back that I would write a post about my favorite YouTube channels that I’m currently watching. I don’t know if you’ve embraced YouTube yet. I know I only watched YouTube for how to videos until maybe 3 years ago. I go through phases where regular TV just gets old and YouTube always has something new and current about any topic you can imagine. I enjoy YouTube channels of all sorts. My kids think I’m weird because some of the stuff I watch, but I really enjoy it. I think the main reason I like every channel…

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    2018 Highlights

    December 31, 2018 - By 

    I enjoy reading other’s end of the year posts and well as going back and reading my end of year highlight posts. If you write an end of the year post, please comment below and share your link so I can see your post as well! If you’ve been following me for awhile you know my posts are usually photo heavy, but photos often evoke more memories than words, at least for me. Here’s a run down of the highlights from 2018! [January] The boys and Rob enjoyed a great annual ski trip to Gatlinburg with the Boy Scouts. Here’s…

  • Next time you're in Fort Myers and looking for a unique place to eat, I highly recommend Capone's Coal Fired Pizza.
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    Capone’s Coal Fired Pizza {Fort Myers, FL}

    February 24, 2015 - By 

    On our Florida Tour, on Sunday after leaving Myakka River State Park, we drove the rest of the way down to Fort Myers, Florida where we were staying at the Hotel Indigo. We checked into the hotel, got settled in and then decided to walk around and find a cool place to eat. We ended up at Capone’s Coal Fired Pizza. Many of us weren’t in the mood for Pizza. However, after examining the menu that was displayed outside we decided to give it a try, because it had pasta and paninis. Drew and Caitlyn both got the Fettuccine Alfredo,…