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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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Nov292016

Getting started...

DateTuesday, November 29, 2016 at 09:27PM

Even though we're actually lacking a good bit in holiday spirit right now (just not in a holiday mood quite yet), we did manage to get started by putting up our outdoor lights on Saturday. This is the most we've done to date...having stocked up on extra lights during last year's after-Christmas clearance sales:

We really like our candy cane striped trees and have plans to add more lights over the garage!

Plus, we also have Christmas inflatables to add to the yard! (Thanks, again, after-Christmas clearance sales!) We're going to hold off on putting them out for a couple weeks, though. I'm sure I'll add more pictures when we do. (I'm also hoping to add more inflatables after Christmas, lol...have my eye on a certain awesome dragon at Home Depot. Sadly it's out of stock online already but here's what it looks like.)

So, that's our start on the holiday season... ;)

(PS In case you were wondering, I finished my scarf challenge! Managed to wear all 24 scarves at least once...and, yes, some days I wore more than one, lol. Similar to the necklace challenge, I really enjoyed reminding myself of what I have. Try it yourself!)

AuthorAmanda | Comment1 Comment |

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Beautiful!

November 30, 2016 | Unregistered CommenterNancy

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