tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-66071348220459509952024-02-02T08:36:19.961-05:00No One Here Thinks I'm FunnyT+Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03433442611449266570noreply@blogger.comBlogger668125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6607134822045950995.post-10572826644664136752014-01-28T16:24:00.001-05:002014-01-28T16:24:39.851-05:00The Princess and the Bear<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="344" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/QC7FoR6fnHU" width="459"></iframe><br /><br />
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<br />T+Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03433442611449266570noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6607134822045950995.post-21995933530461046152014-01-05T19:06:00.003-05:002014-01-05T19:20:55.989-05:00Turn That Frown Upside DownToday while the Bengals' football game played in the background, I made this little freebie scrapbook (after all I've spent at American Girl, this coupon that came with our purchases was a nice little gift). <br />
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During our last assignment, Riley and Mary's gymnastics teacher encouraged them to do "Handstands Around the World." We didn't remember to do them at every place we visited, but we had fun when we did.<br />
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Birthday season came and went. We celebrated Riley's at a camping trip. Then, beginning November 17 and ending on December 12 we celebrated the other birthdays: Lucy's, Mary's and Cory's.<br />
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Thanksgiving--interrupting birthday season just a wee bit. We headed to Arkansas and enjoyed being with all of our family for the short weekend.</div>
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Christmas time! Peppernut baking began in Arkansas over Thanksgiving, and then we made another couple of batches at home.<br />
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Decorating the house put everyone in the spirit.<br />
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We trimmed two trees. One has ornaments that the kids have been given over the years.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Santas and stockings filled the mantle above the fireplace</td></tr>
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The second tree is filled with ornaments we've gotten on our travels.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This has beautiful ornaments from lots of beautiful places</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">It made a very picturesque place for listening to Christmas carols</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">One of my treasures from Italy hanging on the tree</td></tr>
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One of the highlights for the kids is decorating gingerbread houses. We made these on Mary's birthday.</div>
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We began anew the trilogy of Advent stories, rereading <u>Jotham's Journey</u>, which for Lucy was like the first time since she was so small when we read it before. We also had fun doing the devotions in <u>What God Wants For Christmas</u>, and it was very cute to see Lucy's face when she opened the last box just before we ate our Christmas dinner.<br />
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Celebrating with some of our family in Kansas was brief but beautiful.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lucy was scared of all the animals on the walls--you can kind of see one half of some bull horns on this wall. She didn't feel it was safe to sit or be anywhere</td></tr>
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We left this luncheon and saw this winter wonderland...<br />
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Bad weather forced us to delay our departure from Kansas, but allowed us extra time to connect with cousins and grandparents.<br />
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We were grateful for that extra time and grateful that the drive home was uneventful.<br />
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After Christmas Eve services, the kids opened up their new pj's, then we set off in Clifford with some hot chocolate and an outdoor decorations scavenger hunt!</div>
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Christmas Day was a flurry of opening gifts from each other and family far away. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Love it</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lucy's still trying to figure out what a "yes or no" question is</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">yep, she likes it</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pretty cool--nail files made out of Arkansas minerals</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cory got all of his sisters nerf guns so that they could have nerf wars with each other--watch out boy!</td></tr>
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Post Christmas Day we went to the AF Museum, ice skated and shopped. New Year's Eve will be spent quietly ringing in 2014 for some of us--Riley and Mary will be enjoying a lock-in with their youth group tonight. Ted's even agreed to chaperone some of it. Yikes...
See you next year!!
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<br />T+Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03433442611449266570noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6607134822045950995.post-52933441357915753352013-11-25T23:24:00.000-05:002013-11-25T23:24:42.375-05:00Fall In Our BackyardIt seems that this year fall was an especially beautiful season. The colors just kept improving and as we'd drive down the road I'd marvel at the loveliness. At our latitude most of the leaves have now dropped, and we're preparing for the long months of gray skies and leafless trees. Hopefully, these bright colors will be emblazened in our heads when it's bleak and cold.<br />
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<br />T+Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03433442611449266570noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6607134822045950995.post-38634679799018223182013-11-25T23:22:00.001-05:002013-11-25T23:22:17.999-05:0011 on the 11thWe must admit that we both felt it very odd that we didn't have a weekend excursion planned for Veteran's Day--the last three years we've filled 3 day weekends with mini-trips across Europe, but now it seems we're still recovering from move-mode. So, instead we decided to check out the local geocaches. Imagine our surprise when we found out that there was one right across the street in the park where we take Nickleby to play!!! So, Monday morning we headed across the street in search of our first cache. <br />
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We immediately decided that we needed to improve our clothing if we were going to continue on a geocache adventure--Veteran's Day was windy, gray and cold. Eventually it even rained, but not before we were able to track down 10 more caches...<br />
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We found a series named for the 12 days of Christmas and hidden at local churches--3 of which were very near our house, so we searched for them next. <br />
(by the way, look for the flags in the pictures. We tried really hard to find a flag nearby every cache to include in our pictures. Only the last two caches were we unable to locate some sort of American pride in the background)<br />
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That makes a total of 4 finds now...<br />
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We also found one in a nondescript wooded are across from some local businesses.<br />
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5 Caches found.<br />
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The kids loved finding the three in a cemetery not far from our house.<br />
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And a quick grab after lunch at Chipotle at another fast food restaurant--Fazoli's (We have yet to darken that restaurant's door. Afraid we might weep.).<br />
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This was our ninth. Then it was a quick find in an undeveloped area across from a hospital--no pictures of this one because I decided to stay warm in the truck! But it was number 10, nonetheless.</div>
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But the big, exciting cache was the 11th, in the same area as number 10, but way more exciting...I'll let Ted tell the story.<br />
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As mentioned earlier, we had not really mapped out the day. While eating lunch we noted three cache's were within an easy few minutes of our location and one of them included a tree climb. The kids are always up for adventure so that helped me to decide to push on to that cache as part of our "11." Number 10 was very tame and an easy walk from the car. Number 11 (the tree) required us to adventure some on foot. While walking a paved path a man drove up to us and asked if we were geocaching. We smiled and said yes. He quickly asked a follow up question wanting to know if we had the one in the tree. I mentioned we were looking for it but had not found the proper location to enter the forest. (An earlier cache in the day involved lots of unnecessary bush-whacking so we were waiting for a better entry into the dense undergrowth). The guy seems annoyed that I'm not really answering his questions about the tree. Then he says, "I'm 65 years old, and I climbed up there (points to me)...so you have no excuse not to go." I'm not sure what to think but I just say OK. And we move on. <br />
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We eventually find the best entry into the forest. Our tree is just 50 feet in from the edge. The kids all scramble in wanting to the lucky one to climb. Mary and Cory arrive first, and Mary is quickly in the tree. She climbs up 6 feet or so and cannot find the cache. I tell her keep looking because it has to be close. Then I suggest she go up one more level and look around. No luck spying the cache. We double check the coordinates and we are right on it. This must be the tree. <br />
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So we all double our efforts to look in and around the tree. I crane my neck and look up up up. There it is, many levels above where Mary has climbed. Oh My gravy it is up there. But I remember the dude in the truck throwing down the challenge, so I can't give up so quickly. I suggest to Mary that she get down (because she says she can't keep going - she can't reach the next level up). I climb up to about the 8-10 feet level and I'm not even close. It's really far up there. I say - well let me just get up to the next branch and then the next and soon I'm 20+ feet up and still not there. Kristi mentions the Emergency Room is just across the street - so no need to worry. I keep pressing on - mostly out of wanting to keep my Man-Card. Kristi has the kids climb up a few branches for a quick photo while I'm still going up. </div>
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I finally make it to the cache. I wedge my feet in as best I can, loop my arm around for dear life, and retrieve the cache. Yowza it was high. The pic below gives you some perspective. The pink is Mary...and she is in the tree easily 5-7 feet off the ground. I think the cache is over 30 feet up. The wind was blowing me in the tree and I was happy to get down as quickly as I could. It was a great cache to end on and claim victory for our Veteran's Day geocache adventure. <br />
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<br />T+Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03433442611449266570noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6607134822045950995.post-71675659079122581132013-11-25T16:36:00.000-05:002013-11-25T16:36:03.615-05:00HalloweenHow do I get so far behind????????? Here are the kids in their cosutmes before trick or treating on a windy and somewhat wet Halloween night...<br />
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<br />T+Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03433442611449266570noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6607134822045950995.post-28592305029946754882013-10-15T22:47:00.003-04:002013-10-15T22:50:34.314-04:00Camping extrasSo this weekend of camping was sort of a first for us. We had been camping years and years and years ago, but we had not taken the kids camping--and they've been begging us to for quite a while. When friends mentioned that they were planning a final camping trip of the year, we asked if we could crash their family party. It ended up being a win-win--we took the kids camping PLUS, all the kids were happy to have friends to play with for the weekend. Likewise, the adults had a nice time hanging out (our version of playing), as well. <br />
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The numbers post from yesterday was inspired by the fact that during the weekend we celebrated Riley's 14th birthday. But of course, there were a ton more pictures, so here's a follow up post with some photos of more of the fun we had.<br />
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So, in no particular order and with brief commentary following each, here's our weekend in pictures:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We hardly saw these two--they really only emerged for food. We had a small tent for them to play in, and they pretty much did just that. There was a stack of papers at the end of the weekend of all their hard "work"</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cory caught three fish on Sunday--look at that happy smile. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ted got each of the boys a flint and steel tool--they LOVED making sparks and starting our fires for us.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We had a perfect view of this beautiful tree decked in gold</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Waiting for Daddy to bait the hook</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ahhhhh--a camp chair without a soccer game. Now that's pleasant</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Our friends had all the supplies we needed for cooking good eats. And we did just that--we had chili, fajitas and black bean soup for dinners--not to mention the desserts of cobbler, nutella and jam pies, and roasted marshmallows</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Did I mention the fajitas? Here's the steak going on the grate</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The cobbler I found on the internet was fantastically good, cooked over and under coals in the dutch oven</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Unfortunately, the weekend was not without tears--poor kid burned her tongue on hot apple cider. On her birthday no less. So sad--yet Smiley Riley even smiles while she cries.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Nighttime fires are one of the best parts of camping, no?</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The girl and her dog</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Another girl and her dog--we are always catching Lucy snuggling and taking care of the dog. We are so glad she loves him, because she really wants a cat.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This picture is especially for Pa G--who loves watching squirrels. Nickleby was dying to chase the squirrels, by the way.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The state park we were at had a lake with a sandy beach to play on--guess where we were a lot?</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bent down digging in the sand, I'm sure</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Wading in the water--they said it wasn't too cold "once you got used to it." </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Baths were required after this--and I think those white leggings are now permanently brown.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I kept hearing things like "Come to our spa!" from these two...Umm, no. Thanks, but no thanks.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Here's our humble tent (with two towels drying). It will sleep up to 8 and arrived the day before we left--thank you Amazon Prime</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Look who's hoping for some goodies--he was caught table surfing a couple of times. Notice the stack of snack bins--those are rice krispie treats, puppy chow and ranger cookies. I told you we had good food.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The weekend wasn't all relaxation--we did have to wash dishes for 11 people after every meal. But with so many people, we were able to spread the work out a bit.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">When we suggested a silly picture, one kid steped out--guess someone's not so silly.</td></tr>
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As with most trips, there's usually one story that will not soon be forgotten. For us it was the exploding egg. After breakfast we had left a single egg in the middle of some coals--partly because it had cracked a bit, and since we didn't know how long it had been cracked, we weren't planning to cook and eat it. After about an hour on the coals (and us pretty much forgetting about it), it had cooked so much that it exploded under the pressure. It sounded like a gun. The egg exploding was not big deal really--it just fell into the grass, and Nickleby loved eating it. However, it also sent several pieces of coal shooting into the campsite. And they left multiple holes in camp chairs, in tablecloths, and in the tarp that we were using as a shelter over the picnic tables. Surprisingly, and thankfully, no tents or people were burned, even though some were sitting in the chairs and under the shelter. T+Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03433442611449266570noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6607134822045950995.post-80568134295198100452013-10-14T21:30:00.000-04:002013-10-14T21:30:39.943-04:00Camp by NumbersWe spent a perfect weekend camping at beautiful Indian Lake State Park with some friends. Here's our trip in numbers.<br />
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1 handsome guy who didn't have to shave for 4 days! This is day 2<br />
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2 axes for the wood--the young boys had fun chopping wood for our fire<br />
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3 rip-sticks for kids to ride (or row) up and down the street<br />
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4 egg shells lined up in a row after frying a few for breakfast<br />
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5 shells found on the lake's beach<br />
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6 cans of Pringles--one for each member in our family so no one had to share<br />
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7 crazy kids--some obviously crazier than others! <br />
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8 bags of groceries<br />
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9 sticks for roasting marshmallows<br />
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10 marshmallows on one stick!<br />
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11 camp chairs around the fire<br />
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12 blankets to keep us warm as the nights dipped into the 40's<br />
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13 rods for catching fish. <br />
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14 years we've been blessed with this beautiful child<br />
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T+Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03433442611449266570noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6607134822045950995.post-80144514799419709902013-10-08T21:01:00.004-04:002013-10-08T21:01:41.558-04:00Nickleby!!!Meet our new family member...<br />
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On his arrival day<br />
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And very soon after, he's already made himself completely at home!<br />
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<span style="text-align: center;">We actually went twice, because it was so much fun. The second time, Grandma came in her swimming suit, too, and the kids took that as permission to attack her with cups full of water. I spared her the photographic evidence, but I won't forget the big smile on her face. Truly a kid at heart!</span></div>
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As temperatures are cooling down now, this sort of activity doesn't seem as enticing. But trust me, on a hot August summer day in Arkansas it was the perfect way to spend a couple of hours!</div>
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An afternoon at the Mid-America Science Museum in Hots Springs, Arkansas, turned out to be an afternoon well spent. </div>
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We went shortly after school had started for all the other kids, so the museum was not crowded at all. Additionally, every exhibit we tried was in working order! What a bonus. We've been to too many science museums that had broken "hands-on" activities. Never Fun.</div>
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The one downside is that the coolest thing at Mid-America is a an extra fee--we did not pay to enjoy the truly hair-raising fun that it offers. Oh well, we still had a good time.</div>
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<br />T+Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03433442611449266570noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6607134822045950995.post-7609713342736074992013-08-29T11:16:00.000-04:002013-08-29T11:16:15.968-04:00Painting, part 2There's painting that is work and there's painting that is pleasure. We spent an evening with the girls painting for pleasure at a studio in town called Abella. We arrived to this wall of inspiration:<br />
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After selecting a painting to recreate, we were given the canvases, paints, brushes and a small amount of instruction. <br />
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Then we began making each painting our own.<br />
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<br />T+Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03433442611449266570noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6607134822045950995.post-80302659167502273582013-08-28T22:55:00.004-04:002013-08-28T23:37:44.492-04:00Lessons From Italy Learned--Digging for DiamondsWithout a doubt we enjoyed all the traveling we did throughout Italy and Europe. We saw incredible things and iconic architecture. But you know, if you talked to the local guy in Aviano, it wasn't uncommon for him to not have been to any of those places, even though they were just a few hours from home. <br />
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It gave us pause--the U.S. has no shortage of incredible things and iconic architecture...will we travel to experience it? I hope our answer is yes...so starting in Arkansas we took a day to visit the nation's only diamond mine to search for our fortunes with some of the family.<br />
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Brad supplied buckets for the troops, and we gathered a few random shovels and spades from Dad's house for the task at hand<br />
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We paid our entrance fees (and hey, we weren't penalized for being non EU citizens this time--woohoo!) and walked into the park.<br />
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And we tried to find the one spot where we would find riches<br />
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We dug, sifted and washed...<br />
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And at least one of us was looking extra cute<br />
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We took a few small rocks to the counter for the "expert" to look at them and let us know how big our diamonds were...<br />
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After a solid week of running back and forth to Home Depot for the 22 gallons of paint it was time to head south.</div>
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Let's see how Clifford does--time to drive to Arkansas and see the family</div>
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We couldn't have been happier to return to Ohio and to the house that we bought in 2006 (back before we had any idea we'd ever travel the world). The kids wanted to make their rooms their own, so we started with an item to decorate their rooms (that required a trip to Target--no complaints from me--Ted, maybe one or two). Using that item, we got paint inspirations and selected paints for all the rooms...Then we began the tedious job of painting...</div>
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and painting</div>
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and more painting</div>
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lots and lots and lots of painting</div>
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and painting difficult to reach areas...</div>
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and friends who helped us</div>
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sometimes they helped by keeping us busy</div>
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or feeding us!</div>
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<br />T+Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03433442611449266570noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6607134822045950995.post-44167597048337989222013-08-28T21:52:00.000-04:002013-08-28T23:39:16.368-04:00Second Welcome--Ohio<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
We spent our first day back in the great state of Ohio buying Clifford, the big red Suburban. We are ready to haul.</div>
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Ohio welcomed us with beautiful weather!!!</div>
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And we didn't waste any time getting to Chick-Fil-A</div>
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<br />T+Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03433442611449266570noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6607134822045950995.post-62033767203467828972013-08-28T21:29:00.001-04:002013-08-28T23:39:39.799-04:00Friendship--the first welcome home<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
Our friends in D.C. offered to host our sleep-deprived family while we awaited our final flight. The kids had a lot of fun--especially with Ryan's $1 thrift shop find--yes, he's aiming it at me...</div>
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His mom wanted a turn, too! Even better--check out Ted's form! A few games of r-a-t got everyone's blood moving.<br />
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Group shot!<br />
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Ted and his godson, Ryan.<br />
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All good things must come to an end, and our time in Italy is finally over. It is August 1. The day has arrived for us to fly back to the good ol' U S of A. Without a doubt we will be glad to live in the US again, after all we are Americans through and through. But we will always carry a large piece of Italia in our hearts. Here are the final family shots before we got on the plane.</div>
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The flight was a long, long, long flight, made extra painful by delays while we were in the plane at the gates. The story is a sad tale, and I won't soil the pages of the blog with great detail of its woe. We arrived safely in Baltimore 4ish hours after our originally scheduled time, and we soon began recalibrating our body clocks to the Eastern Standard Time. </div>
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We didn't have much of an agenda--I don't think we even wanted to taste proseccos at the wineries. We just wanted to see one more thing. We had been told about an interesting "restaurant" in the area called Osteria Senz'oste. I think it translates to something like restaurant without a host. That's exactly what it was.<br />
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Knowing it was intriguing, I did my best before we left to get an address or directions to the place. It's listed as a destination on tripadvisor, even, but directions were sketchy and an address was elusive.<br />
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It's truly a miracle we found it--3 year ago we would have been unsuccessful, but our time in Italy has taught us a thing or two about the culture. As we drove up a drive, we discovered this sign:<br />
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The big blue sign would have made us turn around--It's clearly private property, and we've not been invited. But, below, somewhat waterstained and dim is a smaller sign. Well lookie there! Osteria senz'oste! By golly I think we've found it. Now, where to park???<br />
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A small room welcomed us, filled with fliers and business cards. In one corner was a cupboard filled with bread. In another corner were glasses, cutting boards and knives.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We found a shop/artist who paints a beautiful Venezian scene that looks a lot like the reflection in the waters. It's a good thing we had not found him earlier in our tour--I loved the concept and could have bought a ton!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Winged lion--symbol of Venice. Holding a book means there is peace. We looked for winged lions carrying a sword, but they hard to find</td></tr>
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T+Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03433442611449266570noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6607134822045950995.post-41872922688995569762013-08-27T13:32:00.001-04:002013-08-27T13:32:29.257-04:00I Like To Move It Move It!Usually with our moves, all of our stuff gets packed up the week before we leave, a semi truck drives off with the stuff and in a couple of days you can start unpacking it at the new house. However, with an overseas move, things take longer to get across the ocean on a boat, so it's prudent to have all of your things packed up a little sooner. So, before we were even done loving Italy, we had to get our stuff packed and loaded into crates. <br />
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And we needed lots of tape<br />
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And lots of paper<br />
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We marked a big bathroom with the Italian word for "NO" indicating that they shouldn't pack anything in that room<br />
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And in here we kept all of the things we would need for the next 2ish months<br />
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And if we weren't careful, our things we wanted would get packed up--in the brown paper wrapped basket was Riley's flip flops that she had inadvertently left out of the bathoom. OOPS</div>
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It was fun to play "guess what this is" with a few of our items: Some were obvious<br />
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Boxes showed up in stacks on the porch<br />
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And then eventually tetrised (I just made up a word) into a crate. 14 to be exact.</div>
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It took two days for them to get all of our stuff wrapped, packed, and loaded. We'll see on the other side how well they did.<br />
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Our favorite restaurant, New Ristopizza. Mario and Marcella treated us like family every time we visited. They knew everyone's favorite foods. I'm not going to lie--I cried when we left here for the last time.<br />
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Oh, the wine. Cin Cin! Reds, Whites, Proseccos. It was all good.<br />
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The church steeples, climbing above the rest of every city. We could see them from miles away, beckoning us.</div>
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The drives through the towns--the narrow roads lined with multicolored homes, the small churches with bells, the stone, the flowers, the bicycles, the impatient cars behind us. </div>
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The gelato. In flavors like amarone, limone, stracciatella, bacio, nutella, and Jif. </div>
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Serenity from my bed and bedroom window</div>
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A dear, sweet landlady who made it all so easy<br />
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The fragrance of jasmine filling the porch for a good part of the late springs and early summers</div>
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<span style="text-align: left;">Piancavallo--not too bad a view on my way to the grocery store. </span><br />
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Our chapel family, especially the chaplain and his wife. They adopted us as if we were their own family and treated our kids like grandkids. We love them dearly.</div>
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That doesn't even begin to touch the wonderful things in Italy--there were the cherry trees, the tire swing, the temperate weather, the pizza, the festivals... However, this last picture reminds me that there were a lot of PEOPLE that far surpassed the <i>things</i> we enjoyed and will miss from our time in Italy. As usual, with every place we've lived the friendships we've made outshine it all. Our Air Force family is far more beautiful than all of Italy.</div>
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There is no way that I will be able to do this post justice--but Ted is up to his eyeballs getting us all prepared to move and at the same time do his job that by the time he is done for the evening, he does not want to also pen creative thoughts. BUT, we did celebrate his birthday a week ago with a trip to Manarello--the town famous for its Ferraris. And it's worth sharing the fun we had. </div>
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The kids and I arranged with another family to go together for the Dads to drive Ferraris. As I was researching online the different companies to use (big business in Manarello), I discovered that a couple also had a Lamborghini you could drive (the Lamborghini town is nearby). I've known Ted a long, long, long time. When we were in high school he had a few things decorating his room--miniature Air Force planes and Lamborghini posters. <br />
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Well, my decision just got easier. I no longer needed to pick which Ferrari, I just needed to decide how long a test drive in the Lambroghini. They offered rides anywhere from 10 minutes around the city to an hour into the mountains. These all started out very pricey and got exponentially more expensive. 20 minutes...that would have to do. <br />
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All along, while we were planning this, Ted was planning a day trip for the family that day in the opposite direction. It was fun for us to go along with this plan, and the kids did a remarkable job keeping the secret. <br />
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So that's the background. Now let's get to the FUN! <br />
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Our friend took a spin in one of the Ferraris--<br />
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After all that fun, we drove around for nearly an hour and eventually found a little agriturismo that was open for lunch. It had a playground area for the kids where I took a couple of pictures of them, because the grandparents like pictures of them the most!</div>
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T+Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03433442611449266570noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6607134822045950995.post-5017906312111275082013-07-14T14:10:00.000-04:002013-07-17T03:41:51.511-04:0014 July Offertory (Romans 8:38-39) - Seeds of CourageKristi and Mary blessed the Chapel during offertory today. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.<br />
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