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Hi. I'm Amanda...a happy wife and mom to three awesome guys. We've lived here in Fort Collins for more than 20 years and are proud to call it home. Before moving to CO, I worked at a city attorney's office, making use of my law and Master's degrees from Duke. After settling in Fort Collins, I homeschooled my three (now teenage and older) sons and was delighted to experience music classes, soccer, karate, swim team, archery, Science Olympiad, First Lego League, parkour, and climbing (not all at the same time!). From 2005-10, I was also a contributing editor for a national scrapbooking magazine, authoring a book and a couple of monthly columns. From 2009-10, I founded and ran the Good Grief Blog. I enjoy learning new things, spending time with my family, volunteering with The Matthews House, traveling and indoor rock climbing.

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Oct292013

Also Last Saturday

Given the foggy, drizzly weather of yesterday and today, it looks like we were just in time in taking our annual leaf walk last Saturday (before Asher's recital)...when it was gorgeous. 

(click to make larger) Yup, we headed out around our neighborhood...

  • raked up a pile of leaves for boys to jump in and then throw at each other...
  • rolled in the leaves down the hill...
  • played some touch football (that third picture of Noah kicking the point-after cracks me up because Asher was so scared of being kicked accidentally that he kept pulling away and I totally had flashbacks to Peanuts, lol)...
  • and threw more leaves at each other and up in the air.

We also had a little spectator that Micah insisted join us...

 
Don't worry; he also brought a little box for Koaly to stay in during the activities so that he didn't get dirty in any way. Apparently, Koaly just really wanted to see what we were up to, lol. Plus, who can refuse such a sweet eight year old who proclaims to you along the way that "my favorite color is fall," right?

And we even managed to get a few shots of just Nathan and me...

 
Happy sigh. I love our leaf walks! ;) 

Reader Comments (1)

Looks like a *pile* of fun!

October 29, 2013 | Unregistered Commenternan

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