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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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Sunday
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Peach Festival

DateSunday, August 21, 2016 at 02:35PM

Still here and almost ready to get back to "normal" (as in, the Olympics are almost over and our school year is about to start, lol)...in the meantime...

Yesterday morning, we headed to the local Peach Festival. We started out wandering the booths...Micah particularly enjoyed the Flip-a-Chick dealio...

...and visiting with the rowing crew...

But the big draw was the American Ninja Warrior Wolfpack. (For those unfamiliar, the Wolfpack is a group of northern Colorado athletes who compete on American Ninja Warrior.) They'd set up a warped wall for people to attempt along with a number of obstacle courses. Micah and Asher, as recent fans of the show, were happy (though a bit anxious) to give the obstacle courses a few tries...

(Each of the obstacle courses ended in a smaller version of the warped wall. They were harder to get to the top of than expected...primarily more difficult to pull yourself up once you'd grabbed the edge.)

While there, also, a couple of the Wolfpack members actually raced...

A fun morning for sure!

After that, we left to get some lunch on our way home...with the boys having an all new appreciation for American Ninja Warrior contestants.  

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