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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
Jan022019

22 years

DateWednesday, January 2, 2019 at 07:23PM

Just a quick shoutout...Monday was our 22nd anniversary. Woohoo! Given that we rarely choose to celebrate actually on New Year's Eve (and given that we were enjoying our final full day with Nathan's parents here), Nathan and I went out last night to The Melting Pot to quietly celebrate... 

In case you're not local, please know that it was about 0 degrees outside when this picture was taken (but there was no place inside with sufficient light). We were freezing! ;) After that, we bundled back up and walked a very short time in Old Town to appreciate the beautiful lights...

...and then we went home. Because we're exciting like that, lol. 

Yep, not a big celebration or anything this year...just thrilled to be together and know ourselves to be incredibly blessed. Seriously. So very fortunate and happy. :) 

And...John & Nancy flew home yesterday. We had a terrific visit but didn't end up taking any pictures other than at the Ice Castles--sorry! Lots of time just hanging out together, playing games and spending some individual time (each boy spent an afternoon with grandparents doing his own choice of things). And now we're working on getting things back to "normal" around here, with Asher starting back to school tomorrow. Whew. 

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