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Happy Birthday Dad!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, DAD!! We hope you have a great and wonderful day today!! 🙂 🙂

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Congratulations Deanna!

This post is long overdue, too! A couple of Fridays ago, Deanna was awarded Teacher of the Year at the preschool she …

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Happy Father’s Day!

I know this post is late, but I finally put my pictures into the computer the other day, so now I can …

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Memory Mondays – Week 10

Happy first day of Summer! Summer is always such a fun time of year. It always brings to mind memories of being …

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Recipe: Honey-Apricot Glazed Pork Roast

Honey-Apricot Glazed Pork Roast Ingredients: 1 cup apricot preserves  (peach preserves would be great too) 4 tablespoons honey 5 tablespoons lemon juice 1 …

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Memory Mondays – Week 9

Josh and I have been gardening so much these last few months! We’ve been planting flowers, shrubs, trees, and seeds. Yesterday while …

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Some berries and a bird

Lately the scrub jays that frequent our yard have been flying over us and scolding us if we don’t leave out peanuts …

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Happy Anniversary Mom and Dad!

Happy Anniversary Mom and Dad! Congratulations to you both…you are a wonderful, beautiful couple and we all love you two very much! …

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Happy Memorial Day!

We want to wish everyone a very happy memorial day today, and to thank all of our veterans and the men and women …

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Update on the tadpoles

We had kept our tadpoles in the little screen pocket in the pond for weeks until they got big enough to where …

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Recipe: Crispy Cherry Chicken

Crispy Cherry Chicken Crispy, crunchy chicken strips accented by a tart and sweet orange and cherry sauce. 1 large egg, beaten 1 …

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A visit from Steven

On Tuesday afternoon, our friend Steven came to visit from Las Vegas. He had an appointment with the V.A. in Long Beach …

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Four years ago today…

  On the 21st of May, four years ago, Josh proposed to me! It was such a wonderful day! Josh had told …

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Memory Mondays – Week 5

  Doing that post with the pictures of the horses a few days ago made me want to do a memory mondays post …

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Off to see the horses

      While we were at Mom and Dad’s for Mother’s Day, Alyssa and Makayla wanted Josh and I to take …

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More pics

Here are some more pictures of Makayla and Alyssa wearing their gorgeous dresses that George got for them in India! George was …

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Happy Mother’s Day!

Happy Mother’s Day, Moms!! We are so lucky to have such great mothers! 🙂 I know I’m posting this a couple days …