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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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Jul012019

Seventeen

DateMonday, July 1, 2019 at 10:06AM

Happy July! And that means it's time to wish my sweet Asher a very happy birthday! He's seventeen today. He's also at work, so we took pictures yesterday...and here are seventeen faces I got when I asked Asher to let me take a picture...(I honestly was only looking to get one decent picture but the boy gave me so many faces I had to include 17 of them here, lol)...

Seriously...all of these faces actually do represent my Asher. :) Such a great guy...loved his trip to Costa Rica earlier this summer (still working on getting those pictures organized to share--but soon!), working hard at his summer internship, getting ready for his junior year at CEC (he'll be switching to full time and will have four college classes this fall), and currently training for his second degree black belt (testing week is soon!). In his limited down time right now, he enjoys computer games, YouTube videos and continuing with parkour, karate and demo team. Yup. He's a busy guy!

And here are the obligatory height comparisons. Sorry. I'm too lazy to make new groupings including this year's pictures so am just adding the current photo after last year's...

Yup, growing up. Happy sigh. ;) 

We went out to a celebratory lunch yesterday and will have a cookie cake and a few gifts later tonight. Happy birthday, Asher!

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