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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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Tuesday
Jul222014

Bounty hunters and mohawks and cousins, oh my!

Just catching up a bit more...

Last Friday, I had seven boys here for the afternoon. With the exception of the 13 and 14 year old (who were simply too cool to join in), this is what I ended up with almost immediately after they got here:

I love that the three 12 year olds were totally into this and had a blast together...and that they do such a nice job of including the 5 and 8 year olds. :) (Also, very glad I still had all those costumes in the basement.) Beyond this (and I'm not clear on what "this" was, lol), there was also ice cream and video games and four square and cupcakes. Yup, I added plenty of sugar to the mix. I'm a glutton like that, lol.

Btw, seven boys is a lot of boys. ;)

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I don't think I've posted a picture of Nathan and Micah's hair after our last round of hair cuts:

This was taken last weekend, just before I actually cut off Nathan's mohawk. ;) Micah rocks it better, lol, and is now growing his out longer.

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Also last weekend, we managed (finally) to get together with my brother and his kiddos. I made all of them line up for me for this picture:

(Micah (almost 9), Asher (12), Noah (13), Makenna (8), Quinn (13) and Haylee (16))

I love that the boys have cousins their own ages but am sad that we see them so seldom. :( And, yes, Asher is wearing all black and has on a fleece jacket, though it was almost 100 degrees out. Don't ask me why. :) 

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