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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 grown) 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
Mar282016

Easter

Obligatory Easter pictures... ;) 

We enjoyed a low-key celebration here...missing family and boys are getting old enough that they're not really that into it all anyhow. :) So. We started with an indoor egg hunt (on account of the snow still outside, lol, and, yes, I keep my eggs in my Halloween cauldron...doesn't everyone?). Nathan and I hid 84 plastic eggs filled with chocolate. We gave Micah a small head start but he still ended up with a few less than his brothers, lol. Then boys dove into their baskets, which I made this year out of boxes of candy from the dollar store...just added some packing tape and cardboard bottoms...voila! (Really happy with how that turned out.)

Our baskets were pretty straight-forward in the candy department. Then each boy also got a small something specific to his interests and a tee shirt. The shirts followed a theme...and later that day we went to watch the new Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice movie. Nathan and Micah represented Superman, Noah and Asher represented Batman, and I sported my Wonder Woman tee. :) 

Yes, we have a bit of a dispute going on here about which superhero is better, lol. Don't get them started. ;) 

We didn't do our traditional egg drop challenge (again, snow...the ground wasn't horrible but we didn't want to get up on the roof and also didn't want to get the hose out, lol), though we might try to run that out in a few weeks.

And that was pretty much it...just a day of spending time together and looking forward to the new season. Hope everyone else's celebration was beautiful! 

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