Hoping you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving. November seemed to speed right by as we head into the last month of the year. We had lots of school related activities. We went and toured three private schools for next school year, two of which we applied to). For one of the schools, Cordelia got to…

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We’re in the full swing of the school year now. We have been having busy days and full weeks keeping us very active. We met with two contractors for our home renovations. We’ve signed with one of them and have started the process of reviewing our plans with the architect so we can get drawings…

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We are now entering the autumn season. Summer made one last push at the beginning of the month with temperatures reaching over 100 deg for around 4 days. Fortunately, things have cooled down toward the end of the month and it’s even been cool enough to put a sweater on in the morning. Unfortunately, it…

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Summer vacation has come to an end! We finished up the summer in style this August with the last summer camps. We went camping with one of Anthony’s friends from school and enjoyed the hottest night’s sleep any of us have had in years. At home, the blow-up pool has sadly had its last hurrah.…

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July has been a whirlwind of activities. There have been family fun days and camp days as well as challenging days and crazy busy days. We stared off the month with a Powers clan meet up for 4th of July week. We celebrated Lydia’s birthday and Cordelia participated in her first ice skating competition. We’ve…

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Summer is here! We started June with end of school year presentations, celebrations, and awards ceremonies. Lydia graduated from Kindergarten. We celebrated Father’s day by going to the county fair. Then summer activities began. Things also heated up the last week of the month and we have the blow-up pool out for the summer. We…

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May was a pretty standard month with school and work. We celebrated Tim’s birthday this month. Tim and Alicia got a nice weekend retreat over Memorial Day weekend to celebrate Tim’s birthday and a belated Anniversary. We took a glass blowing class, went on several hikes, and had a fancy dinner. As we approach June,…

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Happy Spring to everyone. We’ve been experiencing the spring weather of cold/rainy then warm/sunny as we transition from winter into summer. We’ve been enjoying the longer days and chances to go outside in the evenings. We spent the kids’ spring break vacationing in Hawaii and had a great time there. We spend three days at…

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March has zoomed right by with lots of activities throughout the month. We also unfortunately had hand-foot-mouth disease come through the house (which put a damper on things) in the middle of the month. The school had “Open house” for Elementary at the beginning of the month, so we got to see Cordelia and Anthony’s…

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February ended up be a tougher month than we expected and pretty eventful for us. We had some valentines’ celebrations for the kids. Then the kids had a week off for President’s day. Anthony and Lydia went together for five days to Mimi and Papa’s house. Then we did a swap and Cordelia spent three…

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