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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
Mar312014

Celebrating spring

Once upon a time, for years, we celebrated spring by feeding geese

Last Tuesday, once our local schools were back in session and not on spring break, we celebrated our own spring break with a day of fun. :) Got day passes up at Fort Fun and spent the day going back and forth between their many offerings...

There was the shooting gallery...

...and miniature golf (Asher was in a weirdly happy mood, lol...I have a whole series of shots like this with him literally dancing through the course)...

...and go-karts. (The younger two rode with Nathan and I the first couple times, with Asher managing one round on his own with the help of a cushion thing. Also, btw, Noah has long legs. His were all bent whilst I was extending mine fully to try to push the gas pedal...I think maybe I needed one of those cushions, too, lol.)

We also went down the giant slide (which did not go over as well with Micah...this was the only time we actually got him down it, the other times he came back down the steps)...

...and spent some time in the arcade. (Yes, we spent a good bit of time at this one...and, yes, we cheated and had three people manning it, so as to make sure to hit all the sharks, lol. We earned enough tickets altogether with the arcade tokens included on our day passes to redeem a bunch of candy on our way out, lol.)

We also played laser tag (a first for me, who, unsurprisingly came in last among us), which was entertaining.

All in all, we just had a great day being together....more expensive than feeding geese, lol, but memorable nonetheless. ;)

Yay, spring! (We'll just ignore the fact that the forecast says there may be snow later this week, shall we?)

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