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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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Monday
Nov172014

New personal best

DateMonday, November 17, 2014 at 12:12PM

This past weekend brought another JOAD tournament. This one was local for us (yay!) and ran pretty smoothly. (We were fortunate not to have any of the travel/weather issues that many others did thanks to the snow. Plus, it's just nice to be at your "home" range.)

Noah did okay, though not as well as the last tournament. (This might have something to do with practicing just over half as much as Micah did in the month between the last tournament and this one...just saying. Bleh.)

Micah improved on his previous best score for this distance during both his rounds, so was pretty happy. (Remember, this is only his second tournament at this further distance.) Plus, he managed to snag third place, which delighted him, as it meant that he actually beat out six other boys. (At the shorter distance, he very rarely was competing against more than two other boys at any given tournament.)

So. That's that. :)  

PS...Hats off to the lovely folks at Rocky Mountain Archery, as pulling off a two day tournament for just under 200 archers is *not* easy.

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