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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
Jan292014

A day off...

After Micah's visit to Build A Bear, we headed up to Estes Park for the day. It was the first time we'd been able to make it up there since the flooding last September and the first day Nathan's had fully off in awhile. The weather was gorgeous and we took advantage...

Found this fun glockenspiel along the walking path...

(Thanks to the music classes the boys took years ago, I'm fairly sure I'm correct in calling this a glockenspiel and not a xylophone, as xylophones are wooden.)

And then we had a late lunch at Ed's Cantina, our favorite restaurant in Estes. Yum!! Here are the younger two posing with Ed's famous pig (decked out for Valentine's):

After driving in Rocky Mountain National Park for a bit, we hit our traditional Tiny Town Mini Golf course (even with the snow and some lingering repairs still taking place after the flooding)...

We followed that up with some window shopping...

...and got ice cream (as is tradition) at Hayley's...


We were getting chilly at this point so headed back to the van to grab more coats, lol. We then walked back to Ed's for dinner. Because we really, really like Ed's. ;) (And we'd been missing them while the roads were out after the floods.)

And that was our lovely Saturday. :)

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