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When did this houligan get to be a big girl? She’s spunky and fearless, and definitely a hoot. I hope she keeps up that great sense of humor. Her party was very low key, but it did include a fun round of “Pin the Kiss on the Frog.” Her cake was supposed to be a “Frozen” cake, however, I was pretty disappointed in the …
Read more →Samantha’s teacher had a baby last week. She asked me if I could go to Facebook to find a pic. I replied “No,” without getting into why. Immediately, she said “What about Twitter or YouTube?” I was shocked that she knew about those social media outlets, and that she lumped them together as a group.
Read more →My dad titled it appropriately. This video was taken around 6:30 AM in our backyard, but it looks much the same now at 2 PM. We received at least 5″ of rain during the night last night. We always have a small creek about 24 hours after it rains, but this is the most I’ve ever seen. It’s Mauter Reservoir.
Read more →My first official 5K was for the Junior League of Birmingham 5K for Kids. A colleague is Race Day Chair, so I thought I would join in and support her cause. It was a great first race, with almost perfect weather! My official time was 32:33, and I placed 19th in my age group. Samantha was disappointed that I didn’t win, …
Read more →I found out that St. Patrick is the Patron Saint of engineers! Engineering Go Bragh!
Read more →We love gymnastics. Ok, maybe it’s just me. And Alabama gymnastics? Those girls are always talented. They make it easy to cheer for them. This year we went to the Georgia and Stanford meets. I’m considering going to the SEC Championships or National Championships, both of which are here in town. I loved the photo …
Read more →Wow, I feel late to the party, but I just have to share. The Prince of Peace choirs are all working on getting this song ready for Easter. I bought it on iTunes so I could practice with it, but out of curiosity I wanted to see if there was a video, so off to YouTube I went. Can you figure out where it was shot? Well …
Read more →I had seen a cool looking cape at gymnastics practice a while back. I talked to the mom, and she said her teacher had made the whole class a cape at school. And it looked easy. I’m talking: e.a.s.y. That’s my kind of project. It took me a long time to buy the $3 shirt, but after I did that, it took about 2 minutes to …
Read more →Sam lost her other top front tooth at school. Apparently, she bit down too hard while at lunch and her tooth started bleeding. It caused issues with the other Kindergarten teacher and the PE teacher. I couldn’t get a clear picture of the whole story, so I have no idea why the PE teacher had anything to do with it. The …
Read more →The third time it snowed this winter, we were a little done with snow. Been there, done that. I couldn’t even get Samantha to go outside and play in it for long. We had all missed tons of work (and school) by then, so it was a challenge coming up with creative things to do and more guilty feelings about staying home …
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