Crazy Bama Fan

· Brian

I must be one. Almost. What other kind of person would go out to buy a t-shirt or hat at the nearest Academy Sports store at midnight after a football game? That was me last night. I figured there would be 50-100 people there, but I never guessed that the parking lot would be full, Hoover police would be manning the …

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Another Snow Day

· Janie

Today it’s 18° with a windchill of 3°.

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Snow Day

· Janie

It’s snowing! A lot! With really big flakes! I’m going to attempt Chicken and Dumplings tonight. Wish me luck!

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It's a ...

· Janie

healthy baby!! 🙂 We have neglected to let our website-only readers in on a little surprise. Brian and I are expecting again! I am about 19 weeks, so I’m due on June 1. We had our big ultrasound today. It seems like a recent trend to be surpised with the gender, but I didn’t want to know with Samantha either. Brian …

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Curtains

· Janie

I’ve decided to tackle curtains for the living room. I’ll let you know how it goes.

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Last Hoorah

· Janie

We had a big day yesterday. We decided to head up to Dogtown to look at their furniture. Samantha needs a big girl bed. We looked around town a little bit on Thursday and Friday, but we usually find something at Dogtown, so why not make the trip? (If you’ve never heard of it, ask me about it – it’s a great place.) We …

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New year, new website!

· Brian

Hi! Welcome to the new mauter.com. Brian finally caved and switched to WordPress instead of his custom-written Java code. The old code served us well, but it’s time to move on. We hope to load all of our old pictures and news items into this site. Stay tuned!

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I need vanilla.

· Janie

Is anyone going to Mexico some time soon? I’m almost out of vanilla. I’ve been using Mexican vanilla for 7 years now and I’m not interested in going back to store variety.

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Jackson

· Janie

I’m not sure what magic spell that Jackson has put on Samantha. She has a fascination with him. Seriously. Samantha talks about Jackson all day, every day. I guess it could just be his charm and wit.

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More pee!

· Brian

Officially Sam’s gone pee-pee in the potty three times in about four days. Nothing Monday or Tuesday though….

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