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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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Wednesday
Jul282010

The Fifth...

...while you're waiting for me to finish sorting all those photos and catch up on things...here are a few of my favorite photos from our lovely *Fifth* of July. (If you'll remember, the fireworks show we generally attend was rained out on the Fourth and rescheduled for the Fifth.) First of all, let me just say that glow sticks make all the difference in entertaining boys while you wait for the fireworks to begin. This is something we've made into a tradition. Here's a layout I finished about a year and a half ago (I *think* pics are from July 2008?...sorry, too lazy to go dig out the actual layout and look (I'm sure it's noted on the back)):

And here are a couple (tweaked) photos from this year:

(Love how the low light meant I captured the motion as Noah twirled and dropped his glowsticks.) And here are Asher and Micah's collections by the time we made it back to the van:

 
Yes, I altered these photos in Photoshop to give them this "older" feel...one gets tired of such bright glowing pictures every year, LOL!

And, here are a couple (again tweaked) shots from the show, itself. By the way, all of these pictures were taken with my little purse camera...yet another reason for altering the photos to make up for the poorer quality. I hadn't intended to take any photos actually, so didn't lug in my good camera or the tripod this year. :)

So. That was our Fifth of July. :)

I continue to slog through the couple thousand pictures from our trip. This week, though, Noah and Asher also have soccer camp in the mornings, Asher and Micah have karate, and all three have swim lessons. Oh, and a certain youngest son has a birthday coming up on Friday. And we started our school work back up after a few weeks off. So, please hang tight...I'll get to it eventually. ;) 

Reader Comments (1)

I like very much fireworks .
above picture are very good .my favorite fireworks is sky fireworks .
liposuction

July 28, 2010 | Unregistered Commenterliposuction

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