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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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Wednesday
Dec272017

Just a few other things...

DateWednesday, December 27, 2017 at 02:40PM

- We managed to replace our car the Friday before Christmas! Her name is Audrey the Audi. She's a 2008 Audi A4 Quattro in excellent condition. Given the holidays, obviously, we haven't gotten to know her well yet but are feeling good about her. She's all wheel drive and checked out marvelously at the inspection we had done. Yesterday, Nathan managed to get all the paperwork finished up with the new plates and such. Whew.

- Asher went to a trial/introductory class for parkour the Saturday before Christmas. Unsurprisingly, he LOVED it, and we'll be signing him up for weekly classes in the new year. It'll essentially take the place of gymnastics since that ended unexpectedly in October and Asher's been needing more activity. (I've known about this place for awhile now but had been holding off on telling Asher about it, lol. We're feeling like now's the right time.) Here's a quick picture of Asher climbing a wall during the intro class:

- We've been to watch Jumanji and The Greatest Showman in the theater in the past few days...great fun! The first was hilarious (Micah and I actually laughed till we cried) and the music in the second one was fabulous. :) We recommend both!

And now back to finishing up year end tasks between trying out new games...

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