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Project Life Week 48
I was delighted to learn that Kylie's Aunt Amy and her girl cousins all publish pictures online with the Instagram app. I've started following them and they follow me. It's been fun to snap easy iPhone...
View ArticleBook List 2012
Happy New Year! Here's my traditional "books read" list for 2012. 46 Books read and 11 audiobooks. There are a lot of good reads in this list but without a doubt, my favorite books were these 8 books...
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Funny faces and family portraits
As a Christmas present for our families, we decided to have some pictures made. Kylie's teacher is an amateur photographer who is learning and trying to build her portfolio. She came out to the house...
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One Little Word 2013- Manifesto
Image courtesy of Ali Edwards.This will be my sixth year with the One Little Word project.I first read about this from Ali Edwards blog. She encouraged me to pick a word that would be a guiding force...
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Four more years
A lot can change in four years! Here we are at President Obama's first inauguration. This was taken in our Portland, Oregon home. Kylie was one year and nine months old.And here we are today.Here's to...
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Project Life 2013 Weeks 1 & 2
I'm pleased to start another year of Project Life Scrapbooking. Project Life is a simple approach to memory keeping. If you would like more information on the process, you can click here. I post all my...
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Project Life Week 3
I wanted to use some more of our family photos at the start of our PL album. And I wanted to showcase the 3 pictures I took this week of Kylie reading. This month’s Kiwi Crate had Kylie making her own...
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Project Life Week4
I loved focusing page one of this week's project life pages on the topic of Kylie's friends.Kylie has been doing much better with the “mean girl” scenario at school. She is staying away from the little...
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Jump Rope - donations please
On Wednesday February 27th, Kylie is participating in a Jump Rope for Heart fundraiser to benefit the American Heart Association. Kylie will happily jump rope during her entire PE class. We are asking...
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Letterboxing
Since school was out on Monday, Kylie and I decided to go letterboxing at a nearby park. Here are a few pictures from the day:Kylie found the Eagle Scout Map which was one of our clues.We saw lots of...
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Project Life Pages
Here's some catch up on my Project Life Pages.Some weeks I enjoy printing just my Instagram photos and adding a note explaining a bit about the photos. I love Instagram! I'm WENDYM888 if you want to...
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Lesson Showcase
Last Monday night was Kylie’s lesson showcase at school. I thought I would share some photos. Kylie presented three lessons to us: the bead star which teaches about counting, sight words and tying...
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Zoo Trip
Here are a few pictures from last Thursday's zoo trip.The Dinosaur exhibit is back at the zoo. Kylie had fun walking up to each dinosaur and calmly announcing, "I'm not afraid of you." We visited the...
View ArticleKylie's First Choir Performance
Kylie had her first church choir performance today. It's not a great video but you can see little Kylie in the center of the row. She is wearing a striped dress and a white headband.Come enjoy God’s...
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Project Life Weeks 11 & 12
You can see my whole 2013 set of Project Life pages (including the weeks I haven't posted on the blog) by clicking here. To view the credits of items I've used, click on the picture.Kylie got her first...
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Disney Dream Cruise Photos
Our Disney Dream Cruise pictures are up on Flickr. Just click here to see the set!
View ArticleWe are here!
We have had a wonderful and busy Summer! Kylie was in many day Summer camps. Like Lego camp, soccer and basketball camp, art camps and more. Her camps were mostly 9-12 but we had many busy afternoons...
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The triathlon race
The August 17th morning of the Believestrong triathlon in Orlando, FL was perfect. It had rained the night before which cooled the temps to a pleasant 78º. It was still dark when I set up my bike and...
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First day of first grade
Tuesday was Kylie's first day of first grade at her new school. I asked Kylie if I could take some pictures and she readily agreed. Our little girl likes to strike a pose.And while she looks lovely and...
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Kylie's classroom
I thought you might like to see inside Kylie's classroom. On the morning of Friday, August 16th, we had a "meet the teacher" event at the school where we dropped off Kylie's school supplies. This is...
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First weeks of first grade
Here is a summary of some notes I’ve taken over Kylie’s first weeks of school. She loves her new school. And Karen and I are very happy with the curriculum and her teachers. Journal writing.Kylie’s...
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One Little Word 2014- Confidence
Image courtesy of Ali Edwards.This will be my seventh year with the One Little Word project.I first read about this from Ali Edwards blog. She encouraged me to pick a word that would be a guiding force...
View ArticleBook list for 2013
In 2013, I read 35 books. 31 fiction books, 2 memoirs and 2 non-fiction books. I also listened to 22 audiobooks.My favorite books of the year were these first four. The Penny & Hobb books were...
View ArticleTossing the fat girl clothes
This Sunday, I'm running my second Disney Marathon.I ran my first one on January 8, 2012. That marathon had so many high-points and so many interesting memories. One interesting memory occurred right...
View ArticleMy really long post about my 2014 marathon
I would call my 2014 marathon a great race and a disappointing venue.We woke up from our room at the Swan at 3:15. The first thing I did was to check the temperature and it was 60º. It had rained the...
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