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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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Tuesday
May082018

Ten on Tuesday

Figured I'd best share some more photos and such before I get all preoccupied with Noah's upcoming graduation. :) 

1. Yes, of course we've seen the new Marvel movie, "Infinity War." If you've also seen it and would like to discuss, it's a favorite pastime around here. :) 

2. Sadly, when we tried to actually start our annual lawn care and such recently, we discovered that our trusty lawn mower was dead. It had been a gift from my parents when we moved into this house so was about 14 years old. I suppose it was time. :) So, now we have a lovely new electric mower and, thanks to a neighbor (who has a truck and works at one of the local places that recycles lawn mowers), have successfully recycled the old one.

3. Last week, I needed a picture of Asher for a summer day camp he's signed up for. When I tried to just snap a single shot, this is what I ended up with:


What a handsome goofball. :) 

4. Had to order a new bo staff recently, as Micah managed to break his during demo team practice. ;) It's okay. He wasn't doing anything dangerous...it was just worn out. As it turns out, though, the new bo staff will be for Asher...as both boys have been and are growing. 

5. Noah picked up his cap & gown last week. 

6. I've been working on catching up on my photo editing/organizing. I go through all the files and pull and edit the ones I like best into monthly folders and such. I'd been quite behind (like years behind) but finally...finally...caught up last week. Hooray!!

7. Noah had his last high school class ever on Friday (technically it was a college class, but last class *of* high school), and Asher, Micah and I wrapped up another session of homeschooling as well. We'll still do some homeschooling over the summer but, mostly, we're done for the year. Yay!

8. And, here are our owl friends again:

This was at the end of last week. They're so fluffy!!

9. After visiting our owl friends, Micah and Nathan spent part of the weekend finishing up the cornhole set they built last summer (sealing it):

10. And, finally, yesterday, Micah had his last day of Options for the year. There are still a couple more weeks of classes, but he'll miss them. So, he let me take this picture as I was dropping him off...

...and then proceeded to have a lovely day with his friends. 

And now we're in full graduation and house guest prep mode around here...

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