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    Week 31 & 32: 2025

    August 26, 2025 - By 

    August snuck up on me as new months usually do, while I was rinsing off Texas dust. Mushrooms took over the yard, LA dropped by with her usual sparkle, and the 21-year-old landed back home between leases; bringing laundry, late-night fridge raids, and that familiar mix of chaos and comfort. The house feels full again, but not settled and I’m ok with it. July 28 Came home from our family visit to Texas>>>Quick Trip to Texas July 29 We’ve had so many mushrooms pop up. These were on our side yard. My favorite time is any time LA gets to…

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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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    Week 29 & 30: 2025

    July 29, 2025 - By 

    The last two weeks in July were pure summer scramble—baseball dreams, taco diplomacy, and smash burgers gone rogue. But tucked between the grease clouds and fangirl squeals were ice cream breaks, health check wins, and the kind of selfie moments that remind me why “LyLy” matters. Buckle up.

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    Week 27 & 28: 2025

    July 16, 2025 - By 

    From fro-yo runs to a 50th birthday bash, here’s what life looked like lately around our corner of Auburn. July 5 LA turned 5 months…I mean how is it going by so fast?!?! My in laws throw a 4th of July party every other year. This year the party was actually on the 5th. You can read about it here>>>Celebrating Independence Day 2025 July 6 We went to visit our friend Marc at his church about 30 minutes away. We got to hear his sermon and then went to the parsonage to visit with him and his family. July 10…

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    Week 25 & 26: 2025

    July 2, 2025 - By 

    Snapshots from the Past Two Weeks From granddaughter giggles to wedding vows, birthday candles to eye charts — these past couple of weeks have been full of sweet moments. I’ve gathered a few favorite photos, each with a little story to go with it. Thanks for joining me on this small stroll through recent memories. June 18 Time for another eye check. Gave bifocal contacts another shot, but the difference just wasn’t worth it—so it’s back to my usual lenses, plus readers when needed. Getting old is a bummer. June 22 Sunday sweetness. My girl came to Sunday lunch with…

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    Week 23 & 24: 2025

    June 20, 2025 - By 

    Another two weeks down. There was a lot that went on in the last 2 weeks from conference ending that Rob was in charge of to the determination of what trip was going to be taken. Of course, some LA time. If you missed the last weekly post, you can find it here. June 2 Snapped this on my afternoon walk through of the building. This is from the added on Mell building that was built on to the front of the library looking out at the original facade front of the library. June 4 This day was the last…

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    Week 21 & 22: 2025

    June 5, 2025 - By 

    If you missed the last weekly post, you can find it here. May 23 I’m never alone… May 24 Memorial Day Weekend was different this year. We made the decision not to camp at the lake, but instead just go up on Saturday. It’s always a good time at the lake. It was LA’s first time. Kayleigh even enjoyed getting in the water Such a great day! I love getting to see ‘firsts’ of LA’s. May 23 A few days later we decided to check out Waldo’s Chicken and Beer. Pretty good My boss has an unhealthy fear of Big…

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    Week 19 & 20: 2025

    May 27, 2025 - By 

    If you missed the last weekly post, you can find it here. It’s a good one!! May 5 LA turned 3 months today and her mom went back to work after 12 weeks off. That evening Rob and I went to Montgomery to see 2 of our preachers get ordained as deacons. The 2nd and 4th guy from the left. This is our clergy team from our church. These guys are awesome! May 6 Alex has been telling us for a while that the restaurant he worked at was going to be closing it’s doors soon. We wanted to go…

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    Week 17 & 18: 2025

    May 8, 2025 - By 

    Here we are for another biweekly post. This was a busy couple weeks, so buckle up for a long post. 🙂 I just can’t seem to get in a groove of writing this bi-weekly life update posts. Maybe I need to go back to weekly…I dunno… April 21 Rob’s cousin and her fiance were in town for the week. She wanted home made Covatels (pasta) while she was in town, so we had those at our house on Monday night. Here’s everyone except me and Rob and his mom and step Dad. We sat at the breakfast table. April 24…

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    Week 15 & 16: 2025

    April 22, 2025 - By 

    Time for another bi-weekly rundown. April 7 The week of the April 6-12th we were in Vegas. I’ll write more about this later. For now here a picture of the resort we stayed in for the first part of the week in Henderson while Rob was at his conference. If you follow me on instagram, you may have seen I shared some photos during that week. It’s also on a highlight now if you’re interested. April 13 When we got home from Vegas, Rob was pretty sure he had COVID and he was right. Luckily, he was only down a…

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    Week 13 & 14: 2025

    April 7, 2025 - By 

    Time for another BiWeekly Update… March 25 The fog one morning this morning was so beautiful March 25 Caitlyn and I saw Mama Mia! at the Gogue. So good! Such a cute story. Basically a young woman who is getting married reads her single mom’s diary to find out who her mom dated around the time she would have been conceived. She invites those guys to her wedding without her mom knowing. Again really cute. Highly recommend! March 27 The other day I noticed this dispersion (light [wavelengths] bend at slightly different angles) on the wall in our entryway. So…

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    Week 11 & 12: 2025

    March 31, 2025 - By 

    Quick rundown of happenings lately…. March 12 New scoreboard at Jordan Hare Stadium going up. View from the parking deck near my building. March 14 Katniss getting up from one of her favorite spots, which is in the guest bedroom. L.A.’s parents went to another baseball game, so I got to hang with her. March 15 L.A. attended her 1st baseball game and it was a great game too! March 18 More L.A. time!! March 19 Stopped by the church before heading up to the lake with a couple of friends March 19 Dinner at Niffer’s at the Lake March…

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    Week 7 & 8: 2025

    March 1, 2025 - By 

    Here’s a quick rundown of the happenings for Feb. 10-23. February 10 – Yesterday at church they put a rose on the alter for the birth of our Granddaughter and we got to bring it home. Got to see L.A. at home the day after she came home. Alex brought his girlfriend over to meet L.A. Feb. 13 – Rob took this picture of the newly renovated baseball stadium. Feb. 14 – I have some sweet students. One of my students left this note on my screen on Valentine’s Day. Feb. 15 – I got to spend some quality time…

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    Week 5 & 6: 2025

    February 20, 2025 - By 

    Here’s another biweekly post of some of the happenings… Jan. 29 – Another gorgeous sunset Feb. 2 – We went over to the Auburn University baseball stadium. It was a beautiful day and they were having a preseason scrimmage. We also wanted to checkout the stadium renovations. Dinner at Walk-On’s and what we found out the next day was that they closed permanently that night! so sad. I’m also mad I didn’t get my favorite meal there since it was my last opportunity to do so. Feb. 5 – Visiting L.A. in the NICU in Montgomery on her birthday. Read…

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    Week 3 & 4: 2025

    January 28, 2025 - By 

    Jan. 20 – MLK Day! We went to lunch with Caitlyn at Yaki Bowl. So yum! Jan. 21 – Snow Day #1! Work from home *eye roll* Over at Drew & Caitlyn’s house Meanwhile at my house… Katniss wasn’t sure what to think. So cold…this helped warm the house up. Jan. 22 – Snow Day #2! Work from home *eye roll* Jan. 23 – Snow Day#3! In office work day even though university was closed. Roads still icy in places Top of the deck at my building It was Drew’s birthday and he wanted to go to Baumhower’s. It ended…

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    Week 1 & 2: 2025

    January 14, 2025 - By 

    Here’s my weekly post. This is covering the 1st two weeks of the January. Jan. 10 – Everything was cancelled for this day, because it was a day we were supposed to have ice. This was the extent of the ice! Even though the university was closed, I still had to go to work. My boss is so awesome. He bought us pizza. Jan. 13 – Went to Rob’s office to help him move into his new space. Jan. 14 – Always love seeing rival school buses roll into the hotel across the street from my work. Rob and I…

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    2024::December 16-22

    December 23, 2024 - By 

    + Our yard (after) being cleared. I may try to write a post about this and share more photos. + Rob’s Dad and step mom got in to town on Saturday, Dec 21st. This is a photo of our normal Sunday lunch along with Randy and Pam. + On Saturday, we took Randy and Pam to the restaurant that Alex works at as part of their Christmas present and so they could see Alex in his element. He always treats us to an appetizer or 2 and dessert. This time he sent out a dessert tray. + On Saturday afternoon,…

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    2024::December 9-15

    December 18, 2024 - By 

    + This week we were in full-fledged get ready for Christmas mode. I made sausage balls. + My car rolled over to 275,000 miles! + Rob and I went out to eat to celebrate his promotion to a manager position. + I made lots of Christmas treats. + The Christmas tree was looking and smelling awesome! + This is a before photo of our yard that we had cleared (underbrush and some trees).

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    2024::December 2-8

    December 10, 2024 - By 

    + Saturday we went to get our Christmas tree. Tradition of this picture makes my heart happy. Need to go do a collage of them here through the years. + Rob and I at the Christmas tree farm + Alex and I standing next to the tree we got. + Earlier in the week Rob and I went to the Gogue for “Ain’t Too Proud” which is the story of the Temptations. Really good! + After getting our tree on Saturday, we continued with our tradition of stopping for Chinese food. Santa and his family were there too! + Sunday…