a picture in words

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Remember when I vowed to post five of James' monthly updates in five days to get up to date?  Well I almost made it!  Turns out posting ...
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Our four weeks of no internet

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Apparently a year of monthly challenges burned us out. We haven't even thought about attempting a challenge since June. Our current theo...
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James: 10 months

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James' 10 month of life: September, our last month in the United States.  It was a FUN month full of getting ready to travel to Brunei a...
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James: 9 months

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James turned 9 months old on August 28th which was right before we moved out of our apartment in Ames.  That week our sweet friend Alex, of ...
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James: 8 months

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So remember how I promised you and myself that I would get all of James' updates done before his first birthday and so I could be all c...
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Crossfit Happenings

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Starting the beginning of November we have fully jumped into the Reebok Crossfit 673  community, and there's a lot going on! In additio...
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High Tea

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I had the privilege last week of attending a high tea at The Empire , a very fancy hotel/resort here, to celebrate a friend's birthday...
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James: 7 months

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Today is James' 11 month "birthday" which means I am 4 months behind on his monthly updates.  Yikes. BUT I am promising you ...
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Since I can't shop for these things myself, I'll just enable you to do so

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Today's post is just for funzies!!  As my Pinterest followers may have noticed, after a long absence from the site I went a little Pi...
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Playdate

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5 moms & 14 kids.  One living room.  A billion or so toys strewn all over the floor.  Yummy snacks and spilled juice.  A cup of coffee ...
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Happy Birthday Reebok Crossfit 673

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Reebok Crossfit 673 (we call it 'the box'), the Crossfit gym Mo started here, celebrated its one year anniversary today and we'r...
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Adventures in buying a car

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Mo and Justin scouring the online classifieds One of our first priorities since arriving a week and a half ago is to find a car we'...
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It's all good.

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In Chicago before boarding the first plane to LA I'm going to make what may seem like a bold statement here: traveling 36 hours ac...
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Hi from the Abode of Peace

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I have about a million and one things to blog about right now but no internet access at the house we're staying at so not much o...
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I found a new hobby...

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It all started with Pinterest two Christmases ago.  I hesitantly but hopefully pinned a few fashion photos of looks I liked onto my previ...
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New family photos!

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Photo courtesy of Everlasting Love Photography Today was moving day!   In the craziness of this last week as we sold/donated/threw ou...
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James: 6 months

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Two things to brag about during this month's update: James started sitting up (he started to be able to sit on his own for longer...
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