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Day #33 of Summer Vacation

Days 29-32 will be featured in my Nashville post later. Today, Pat spent a good share of the day digging out the dirt for our new patio.  The rock comes tomorrow and hopefully some patio bricks will be layed out this weekend!  
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Scenes From Our Week – Week 38

I’m posting this late since I was in Nashville all weekend.  I will do a Nashville post soon, but here is what happened in our world last week. My parents came down last Sunday for Father’s Day.  The kids with my dad. My dad and I Reagan in good form, ready to hit the ball.…
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Day #28 of Summer Vacation

All of us have been reading this summer.  Reagan is only one book away from her free book at Barnes and Noble already.  What we are currently reading: Pat is reading LAST OF THE SEALS by Greg Messel….this yet to be published book will be featured in August as a guest review from my husband!…
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Day #27 of Summer Vacation

I had to make cupcakes for a shower yesterday so I few out and decorated them for the kids.  Since yesterday was the first official day of summer and the longest day of the year, it was the perfect occasion to celebrate with cupcakes!
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Day #26 of Summer Vacation

Since we are getting a new pastor at our church next week, we are having a new church directory made to help her learn all the families in our parish.  So, our family got all dressed up and got our picture taken.   We will certainly miss our pastor and his wife.  We were blessed…
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Day #25 of Summer Vacation

With Patrick gone at Speech Camp again, Bennett and Reagan started to get a little restless.  Bennett asked, “Mom, don’t you have some sort of craft we can do?”  So, I dug through the craft closet and found a kaleidoscope kit and a pinwheel kit.  They got right to work and were pretty proud of…
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Scenes From Our Week – Week 37

Summer is flying by!  Each day has been busy with ball games and camps that we haven’t had much of a chance to just relax yet.  This week doesn’t offer much time for relaxing either.  *Sigh*  What happened to the “Lazy Hazy Crazy Days of Summer”?   Sunday night, Reagan got a lot of action…
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Day #22 and #23 of Summer Vacation

We had a great time celebrating our friend, Adam’s 40th birthday.  The guys had a grill session and the ladies chatted and we all ate the food!  Fun night with great friends! The boys were in charge of making the Shirley Temple’s at cousin, Ali’s graduation party yesterday.  They had a great time and the…
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Day #21 of Sumner Vacation

Happy Flag Day everyone!  Our daughter, Reagan, made up these Flag Day cards a couple weeks ago and couldn’t wait to pass them out in the neighborhood today.  She wore her favorite patriotic shirt and went door to door passing out her cards.  I imagine she brought a smile to their face and she even…
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Day #20 of Summer Vacation – Jump Rope Camp

I know this isn’t a great photo, but it is the best I could get from my phone.  Tune in on Sunday for better pictures from my camera. This week Reagan attended a Jump Rope Camp put on by the Iowa Skippers.  She LOVED it and learned all kinds of new jump rope tricks!
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Stacie's bookshelf: read-in-2023

The Lazy Genius Kitchen: Have What You Need, Use What You Have, and Enjoy It Like Never Before
Your Table Is Ready: Tales of a New York City Maître D'
The Royal Governess: A Novel of Queen Elizabeth II's Childhood
Food Fight
Spare
Foster
This Time Tomorrow
To Bless the Space Between Us: A Book of Blessings
Kiss Me in the Coral Lounge: Intimate Confessions from a Happy Marriage
Save What's Left
Remarkably Bright Creatures
The Galveston Diet: The Doctor-Developed, Patient-Proven Plan to Burn Fat and Tame Your Hormonal Symptoms
Golden Hills
The Girl with the Louding Voice
The Favor
Small Things Like These
This Is How I Lied
Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital
Audrey L and Audrey W: Best Friends-ish: Book 1
Audrey L and Audrey W: True Creative Talents: Book 2
Chasing Giants: In Search of the World's Largest Freshwater Fish
The Puzzler: One Man's Quest to Solve the Most Baffling Puzzles Ever, from Crosswords to Jigsaws to the Meaning of Life
In Conclusion, Don't Worry About It
It Is Well With My Soul: My Story
Have I Told You This Already?: Stories I Don’t Want to Forget to Remember
Book Lovers
A Girl Called Samson
Finn and the Feline Frenemy
The Levee
The Golden Spoon
Only the Beautiful
Live Wire: Long-Winded Short Stories
The Sisters Sweet
Fish in a Tree
This Tender Land
Intermittent Fasting Transformation: The 45-Day Program for Women to Lose Stubborn Weight, Improve Hormonal Health, and Slow Aging
The Mostly True Story of Tanner and Louise
Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice from Dear Sugar
Ben Y and the Ghost in the Machine
The Great Gilly Hopkins
BenBee and the Teacher Griefer
We Should Not Be Friends: The Story of a Friendship
Blue Highways: A Journey into America
Beyond the Point
The Family
Hamnet
The Bookstore Sisters
And Finally: Matters of Life and Death
The Cactus
Black Cake
Ban This Book
Passing
I'm Glad My Mom Died
These Precious Days: Essays
Evidence of the Affair
The Night Travelers
Out of the Corner
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
One Day in December

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