Monthly Archives: November 2012

Some things are just crazy funny.

Our family really likes our traditional Friday Night Movie Night.  It started while Matt was deployed as a way to have a weekly event to look forward to.  We were utilizing Blockbuster.com and I always had a kid-movie waiting for … Continue reading

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Barcelona! (Part 3)

On our second wake-up in Spain (I’VE BEEN TO SPAIN!!) we got ready and headed to the main attraction for the day: La Sagrada Familia. Aimee and I, the coffee addicts drinkers, stopped by Starbucks for an IV drip, um, … Continue reading

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Barcelona! (Part 2)

You know that moment when you try to take a nice, serious, pretty picture with your friends but one of them says or does something funny and you bust out laughing, completely unable to compose yourself?  No?  It’s just us … Continue reading

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Barcelona! (Part 1)

Talk about an early morning!  Our flight was crazy early and the airport is over an hour away, so Aimee (who had spent the night with me) and I were picked up at 3:40 am. Here are the 4.5 of … Continue reading

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Made to Crave: 25 (RESULTS!)

Today I met with my trainer for her to take my official measurements.  I was a little nervous, afraid that there wouldn’t be much of difference between then and now.  As I shared this with her she said that the … Continue reading

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Deck the hollow walls…

After our Blue Friday I decided there was no way we were going to make it two-and-a-half more weeks in this house with no Christmas Decorations.  Because I needed to get out of the house to prevent a severe case … Continue reading

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Escape Artist

During Parker’s bout with pneumonia he started having a really hard time falling asleep by himself.  I believe it was just because he felt absolutely miserable and needed some serious cuddling.  I mentioned before that he had lost his thumb-sucking … Continue reading

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Blue Friday

I have never done the Black Friday shopping thing nor do I ever want to.  I prefer to spend my day after Thanksgiving converting our fall house into a Christmas house. Our favorite tradition has always been to go to … Continue reading

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Happy Thanksgiving!

Jesus.  Matt.  Hayden.  Carson.  Bailey.  Parker.  Family.  Friends.  Health.  Financial health. Those are the important things.  The things that really matter. I’m also thankful for hundreds of other things that take my life from good to great.  I started to … Continue reading

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Inventory?

During my many downtown doctor visits while I was pregnant with Parker, the bigs accompanied me and made a good impression on the doctors.  I remember my particular doctor asked me about homeschooling and mentioned how she wished German families were allowed to … Continue reading

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