tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28657577621113723882024-03-06T22:34:27.135-05:00The Shupeville Zoootherwise known as momhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00364269353041509784noreply@blogger.comBlogger1475125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2865757762111372388.post-61821051094888710162017-12-12T15:26:00.003-05:002017-12-12T15:26:45.762-05:00Field Trip - Family - Farm<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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For the final time, I chaperoned the fifth grade field trip to the Kentucky State Fair.<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiN-yjLD41XD3wlXxkTxJ44cVKFZ5k4KRebTD6xxO2pbWCRrBUgADNRBu1GVh40m8kXApMMDS9RL4OVhihVy_lwbnKBMEojm78yQz6EHJVb_Lq1sS-oYqhmLhwtyJIwfXVeG6s4J4gSaGU0/s1600/IMG_7480.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiN-yjLD41XD3wlXxkTxJ44cVKFZ5k4KRebTD6xxO2pbWCRrBUgADNRBu1GVh40m8kXApMMDS9RL4OVhihVy_lwbnKBMEojm78yQz6EHJVb_Lq1sS-oYqhmLhwtyJIwfXVeG6s4J4gSaGU0/s640/IMG_7480.JPG" width="640" /></a></div>
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The day was long, but the weather was beautiful!</div>
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Having only boys in my group this year</div>
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Another fun day in August was</div>
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helping Grandpa Simms celebrate another birthday.</div>
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We were able to spend an enjoyable afternoon</div>
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eating and visiting with family.</div>
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we finally painted the barns at the farm.</div>
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I really like the look of them all black.</div>
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The final phase of farm development</div>
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We have cross fencing and some alleyway fencing to put in.</div>
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A milkshake to wash it down.</div>
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Fun at Kentucky Kingdom this summer with big sister.</div>
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And that is Grant sliding down the incredibly terrifying blue slide. And YES the yellow one beside it is also a slide...almost a vertical drop...which our kids are forbidden to slide on. I would like them to live a few more years.<br />
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This is John's dorm room.</div>
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It was pretty barren when we dropped him off in August.</div>
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He now has a different room.</div>
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He was grateful.</div>
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And this is Emily's dorm room.</div>
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She has one roommate and shares a bathroom with a total of three girls.</div>
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It's a pretty sweet arrangement.</div>
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She's really excited about that move.</div>
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She will share the apartment with three other girls.</div>
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Each will have their own bedroom.</div>
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And THIS was David's very sad face</div>
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<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike>Before school started in August, I spent a weekend at the farm chaperoning, supervising and generally trying to keep six boys from bodily harm.<br />
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The weekend was spent doing boy stuff like catching crawdads</div>
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and playing with stray dogs.</div>
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Boys were calling home hoping their parents would gladly</div>
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Grant suggested we keep the dogs.</div>
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They spent most of the day swimming in the pond</div>
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They named him Mr. Dump because he was dumped at our farm.</div>
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Thanksgiving gathering in Edwardsville - Aren't we an awesome looking bunch?<br />
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Jet loves to curl up on the clean piles</div>
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so I just pile newly folded clothes on top of my sleeping cat.</div>
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here's a picture of Grant 'dabbing' </div>
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while rolling around the rink</div>
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at the most recent skating party.</div>
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We spent a week sight seeing and hiking in Chattanooga and Gatlinburg. It was an amazingly relaxing and memorable trip. <br />
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Riding to the bottom of Lookout Mountain in Chattanooga.<br />
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I was surprised by how much the kids enjoyed the incline railway.</div>
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once we walked across the road from the railway station.</div>
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David and Joh shared this bad boy of a dessert.</div>
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This was the signature ice cream creation</div>
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It was a simply (though ginormous)</div>
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We also visited the aquarium while in Chattanooga.</div>
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There was a lot to see that did NOT involve water or fish.</div>
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at Dolly Parton's Dixie Stampede.</div>
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Our meal for the evening looked like this. Delicious, right?!<br />
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Finding something fun to do this summer </div>
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when Grant was still in a cast</div>
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We spent one day at the train museum</div>
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which also has an awesome play zone with mazes.</div>
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Emily and I enjoyed a two day orientation</div>
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at UK in June.</div>
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These two students were some of her first college friends.<br />
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That's Emily up front.</div>
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Celebrating the removal of his cast</div>
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They are such a sweet, nerdy bunch.</div>
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John and Emily's high school graduation </div>
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They received awards as pictures, cups, pens and even money!</div>
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But who ever heard of a graduation award</div>
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given in the form of M & M's?!</div>
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Not sure what that prize was for,</div>
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but John sure enough got a bag at graduation...</div>
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and it was the BIG bag too!</div>
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I think their favorite keepsake from graduation</div>
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was the one their parents gave to them.</div>
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Neither of them knew what their gift would be.</div>
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John received a nice watch, and Emily got diamond earrings.</div>
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I hope they can look at their gift for many years to come</div>
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and remember what a significant milestone this was in their lives.</div>
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It might not have held the sentimental significance as their gifts,</div>
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but their graduation cake was a very tasty way </div>
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to celebrate their achievements too.</div>
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This picture makes it seem as if these two actually like each other.</div>
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The best part of the celebration was being able to share it with family.</div>
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It was fun having so many here to share the big day.</div>
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After so much fun and celebration,</div>
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it was quite a sudden turn of events </div>
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when Grant stole the show that afternoon.</div>
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He was so excited because graduation day also happened to be </div>
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opening day at the pool.</div>
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After lunch, he rode his bicycle to the pool to see if his friends were there.</div>
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But he never actually made it to the pool.</div>
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Instead, a neighbor found him lying on the sidewalk after his bicycle broke.</div>
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And, sadly, his bicycle was not the only thing broken.</div>
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So was his thumb.</div>
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Somewhere in the chaos of caring for the zoo</div>
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Grant has grown into quite the grown up young man.</div>
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His second favorite thing to do is mow the lawn.<br />
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If allowed, he would mow the lawn every day.<br />
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Reportedly this is me driving my car.</div>
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I think I look slightly crazy here.</div>
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Our time at Bowen has definitely reached burnout level.</div>
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For Grant. And for me.</div>
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I don't help much with PTA volunteer work this year.</div>
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I barely make an appearance at the school.</div>
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This is what wore on picture day.</div>
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Yup. I'm that parent.</div>
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Grant chose not to participate in band this year</div>
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During the Memorial Day weekend, our entire family made the trip to our local military cemetery to honor those who served and gave their lives for their country. Even though I missed posting these pictures during my summer blog-cation, it seems only fitting to post them in time to honor all those who served as the country observes Veterans Day tomorrow...and today, if you're a bank. 😉<br />
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His dad and I are very proud of his four years in JROTC.</div>
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I think this one is my favorite. And it isn't even our cat! I think she took this while playing at the neighbor's house.<br />
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Hope you had a great weekend! We spent a beautiful eighty degree day at the farm Sunday riding horses and enjoying the fall colors before they're gone. <br />
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John with his ROTC buddies from senior year at Male. Rhiane,<br />
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John's buddies from church<br />
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ROTC Military Ball senior year<br />
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Check in to a hotel and swim in the heated pool!</div>
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Grace and Grant wish our hot water heater would die regularly. Because we had no hot water over the weekend, we spent Saturday night in a hotel. They swam and played in the hot tub for most of the afternoon and evening...much to their delight.<br />
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Happy Wednesday!!otherwise known as momhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00364269353041509784noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2865757762111372388.post-48705895729374115322017-10-30T11:20:00.000-04:002017-10-30T11:20:12.885-04:00Happy Unniversary 2.0<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
October 26, 2016, was our 25th wedding anniversary.</div>
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I think we went out for dinner.</div>
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something very snuggly and sweet smelling</div>
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Of course the boat did not make it into the water before the month of August.</div>
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John and Emily got to boat with us before leaving for college.</div>
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John's girlfriend, Rhiane, spent the day with us on the boat.</div>
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Remember our little friend Silas?</div>
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Not a family of three...but three different babies we've loved on recently...<br />
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Back to school season was a bit long this year.</div>
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We started sending kids back to school during the first week of August.</div>
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John left first.</div>
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He moved into the dorm at U of L early</div>
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This was the evening we moved John into his dorm.</div>
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Doesn't he look EXCITED?!</div>
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The next ones to head out for higher education were Grace and Grant.</div>
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Grace leaves the house at 6:15 in the morning, so we took her picture inside.</div>
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after fourteen long years of having kids attend there.</div>
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August 17th was Emily's move in day at UK.</div>
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It was strange helping her pack up the final things</div>
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as we prepared to move her to Lexington.</div>
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But of course, we cannot be serious about such important milestones.</div>
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So David gave me his best sorority girl pose.</div>
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We did manage to get one serious pose.</div>
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during their thirteen years of education thus far.</div>
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It is John and Nathan driving the PowerWheels jeep around the back yard. </div>
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It was taken in 2002.</div>
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Here is the same shot fifteen years later.</div>
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Another shot of the yard...</div>
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This picture was taken of Emily riding her tricycle next to my car.</div>
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And since I know how to cook, it appears he likes me too.</div>
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That's an oven with a pizza in it.</div>
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He even drew the bottom coil as red in the oven since it's hot! 😏</div>
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Roses are red. Violets are blue</div>
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You're a great mom. I know it's true.</div>
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Grant likes to draw things on graph paper...</div>
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things like a new layout for his bedroom.</div>
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Which usually is followed by Grace also wanting her furniture rearranged.</div>
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It's a rocks glass filled with apple juice </div>
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And then tell them why.</div>
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It will make you both smile.</div>
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I promise!</div>
<br />otherwise known as momhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00364269353041509784noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2865757762111372388.post-25214233829570900152017-10-16T12:55:00.000-04:002017-10-16T12:55:56.090-04:00Congratulations Multiplied By TwoEmily and I spent a wonderful Sunday chatting with each other and road tripping to St. Louis.<br />
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Along the way we picked up extra family members to join in the fun. <br />
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The Simms family has added a new generation to the family tree.<br />
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Meet Owen.</div>
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Isn't he a handsome fellow?</div>
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He was welcomed to the world in September by my niece and her husband.</div>
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we welcomed the second great grandchild to the family.</div>
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I am not a phobic person. I only have two phobias of which I am aware.</div>
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Spiders lurking in shoes and sticking my hand into a garbage disposal. </div>
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<span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">The <span style="color: black;">Frigga</span> is for
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<span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">My only fear would be spelling it incorrectly!</span></span></span><br />
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Say hello to Silas.</div>
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His momma stays busy taking care of Silas and his new baby sister, Star. </div>
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Sometimes Silas and Star come to visit our family.</div>
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Silas and Star have spent many hours at our house this summer.</div>
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We love doing this so their momma can</div>
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Our cats DO NOT love Silas.</div>
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Waaaay back in April Emily helped me with my high school PTSA duties.</div>
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I was in charge of the Clothing Assistance Program for their school.</div>
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This is one of the loads of donated clothing we collected through the year </div>
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In May, I retired from PTSA duties.</div>
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I have eight years left before I have reached my goal!</div>
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Here's Grace holding Tinkerbell-Grace, the rabbit.</div>
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Do you think Grace has any regrets with her rabbit's name selection nine years ago?</div>
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I guess I shouldn't judge seeing as how Grace was only two years old at the time.</div>
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Diagnosis - RABBIT HEAD TILT</div>
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Look it up.</div>
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You totally just googled 'rabbit head tilt'.</div>
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LEPORIDAE TORTICOLLIS</div>
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So our rabbit has head tilt. It probably isn't going away.</div>
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I'm guessing Mr. Rabbit does not have much longer with us.</div>
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that was supposed to live four or five years.</div>
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Grant showing off the quiver for his arrows.</div>
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He made it himself from materials found at ECO.</div>
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And Grant eating at one of his favorite restaurants....Waffle House.<br />
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The boy is definitely easy to please with his food choices!</div>
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The blog was hijacked by PHOTOBUCKET several weeks back. <br />
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Photobucket has always been an online photo service that of stored and managed photos for free. I guess they felt the need to boost revenues this year and without warning suddenly began charging service fees. Any photos previously saved and shared from their website were held hostage. The ransom price was $399 to be paid annually in order to get their warning labels taken off your webpage.<br />
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I did not use their service, but parts of the webpage itself contained Photobucket images. I had not control over those things. It has taken me a few weeks to figure out a workaround that allows the blog to remain intact without those images. <br />
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Thus the new and somewhat awkward look. <br />
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I'll do an updated design someday. It was due for a refresh anway!<br />
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And since I'm supposed to be catching up on pictures....and that's what you click here to see anyway....here's more random shots from the zoo....<br />
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Pool at Grandma's house</div>
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And pool of the cold and wet kind. This was taken on the last day of the season.<br />
Based on the hesitation Grant shows and the lack of other people, you can accurately guess what the water temperature was.<br />
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Very COLD!!!!!!</div>
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Grant and two of his buddies at our church's FamilyPalooza in September.<br />
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