Happy Birthday to Me

Happy birthday to Me
We’re a one car family
We will miss you dear Altima,
But we prefer the $650. (For a newer caaaarrrrrrr…)

We sold it. We did. Not really as a birthday present to me, but it did happen to be on my birthday. It still looked …

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Fun President's Day weekend!

Last weekend was a 4 day weekend for us. That’s right, US Presidents are special enough for our school district to declare a very long weekend. Friday the boys played at a friends home for a bit and I started my dresser painting project. Saturday, Bryan took Isaac skiing …

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The Drama of the Dressers

I have known for a few weeks that my cousin Katie was coming to visit. I did the normal stuff: clean the bathrooms and hope they stay clean, do laundry so it doesn’t look like I am totally lazy, stock the house with some good food, etc. Well, it …

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The LLLLLLLLooooooooooonnnnnnnggggggg drive home

Yesterday Isaac’s school had early release so me and my friend Heather decided to take the afternoon to go to OMSI with all our kids. There is a new Dinosaur exhibit there that the boys were really excited to see. We made it there no problem.

It was so …

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A Late Birthday Present

I got a late birthday present, but it’s one of the most thoughtful and touching gifts I’ve ever received. Nolan gave me a domain name for this website this week. Yes, you can forget that old whatever.homelinux.blahblah stuff that you used to have to type to …

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Ready. Set. GO!

500 yard swim. 12 mile bike. 3.1 mile run. Oh my.

We did it! We really entered a race. A sprint triathlon actually. If we are in the first 320 people to have entered online for the Beaver Freezer on OSU campus (not Oklahoma state university- I wish it …

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Twenty loaves and counting

This is turning into my “how do I love thee Bosch?” website. Yes, I am ridiculous.

I counted up how many loaves of bread I have made in it since I purchased it a few weeks ago. I have now made 20 loaves. The latest six have cooled and are …

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Ily's test kitchen

So today I decided to test my Bosch out again. I know. I am obsessed with this thing. Today I wanted to try whipped cream.

Wow. Less than two minutes on high speed. The bowl was not even chilled. The whips (beaters) only spent about 2 minutes chilling in the …

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Oh man, I officially love the bosch mixer

Caution, this is a dorky I love modern technology entry. It is kinda boring, unless you like cooking.

Today I decided to cook a turkey. It is no special holiday today, but the turkey was in my freezer leftover from Thanksgiving sales and I decided it was time to cook …

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The Annual Sledding Event

For the MLK Day three day weekend, we had initially planned to go ski with Isaac. But then sweet little Micah asked when will it be winter so that we can go play in the snow and go sledding… He was too cute so we decided to change plans and …

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