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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
Dec262012

Merry Christmas!

DateWednesday, December 26, 2012 at 11:49AM

A day late, but merriest of Christmas wishes to you all! Here's the card we sent out:

Hee hee. ;) 

And, here's the letter. If you didn't get one or both, my apologies...either I didn't have your address or I assumed you probably already knew this stuff since I've covered most of it here on my blog or I ran out of stamps, lol. 

In any case, we had a lovely, quiet Christmas here. We asked the boys to make or do something for us this year instead of buying us anything, and it worked out pretty well. Micah decided to make me some yummy jammy scones (thank you Options/LEAP cooking class!) so enlisted his brothers' help Christmas morning (having instructed Nathan and I to stay in bed until he came to get us). He came to get us at about 8:15 and, honestly, I was most impressed and appreciative of the fact that all three boys willingly put the jammy scones ahead of opening gifts. :) 

After that, we did open gifts. ;) Noah scored a bunch of archery stuff and is thrilled. Asher got a mixture of archery, karate and lego goodies and can't wait to show off his new kamas at demo team. And Micah got legos, archery money and Harry Potter goodies (cloak, illuminating wand, and a big stuffed Hedwig) and is now casting spells at us all. Good times!

Well, Nathan and the boys are on their way back from the airport now...picking up Nathan's parents for the week. Will try to post more before the end of the year...but if I don't, I'm just off enjoying my family. ;)

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