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Christmas morning before the opening begins..

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Christmas Eve….me and some of my girlfriends!(L-R: Nancy, Me, Lorri, Deb)

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The tradition of homemade apple and cherry turnovers on Christmas morning continued. Cara helped make them this year again. She is no longer a “novice” and could easily make them without me.

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Danae and her friends going to Santa’s Ball .Ryan and Nate claim they didn’t plan their matching “outfits”!

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Twas the week before Christmas…

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Looks like Monday is my “blog day”…so here we go.Last Wednesday Cara, Nate, Danae, Kirk and I volunteered with at Salvation Army with the Toys & Joy shop. We met at the old thrift store downtown, got hooked up with an 8 or 9 year old child, got our envelope with $$ from Salvation Army … Read More

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Tonight Kirk and I did a “first” for us….we rang the Salvation Army bell at Sam’s Club for two hours tonight. We really enjoyed it and we both agree we would do it again. Lots of people gave $$ which is cool. Salvation Army says that a bucket with volunteers makes $50 more per hour … Read More

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The tree is up, the decorations are out, the cards are a work in progress, I’ve got quite a bit of shopping done, and some baking done….hopefully the baking will be done by next weekend….and the cards out.As you will see below…I had a “blast from the past” memory the other day….all the sudden I … Read More

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Baby boomers…do you remember these??? 

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Thanksgiving was a blast….good to be with family…fun to go downtown to our old “stomp’n ground” (from our teen years). Enjoy the pictures….I think they will tell the story of the weekend better than I can in words!