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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In January, we had a casual first week together before the kids went back to school. We went and visited with Alicia’s grandparents for a day. Then it was back to the weekly routine. We had a great time celebrating Anthony’s 8th birthday with some of his closest friends from school. It was nice to

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We say farewell to 2023! We finished the last month of the year with some fun activities. Unfortunately, we also all came down with a bad round of colds that put a big damper on our middle of the month activities. It was a cascade of two-day fevers through the family followed by ear infections

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November brought cooler weather and a feeling of winter in the air. Especially with the time change and darkness coming earlier in the evenings, it’s certainly been feeling more cold and wintery. We had a few days of rain. The month rounded out to be a pretty good month. The kids did their piano recital

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October has found us settling into a nice groove with work and school balance. We’ve been continuing to enjoy our church life group and growing in our relationships. We had a fun trip in the middle of the month to Mammoth Lakes to visit with Ken and Abbe. We’re still trying to balance our schedules

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