Amber’s Blog
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Some Random Things
I wrote a while back that I might use Thursdays as an opportunity to play catch up on all the things I never blogged, in honor of “Throwback Thursday” — and then I proceeded to not blog at all…and apparently not take pictures off of my camera, either, because when I went to get pictures…
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Debt Free
It is officially summer in Colorado. We have a mini garden started with some veggies and berries, we’ve taken our first trip to buy delicious things from the farmer’s market, and this afternoon Chris and I rode bikes (together!) to pick the girls up from their summer program. After a gray Seattle-like May, we are reveling in…
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Hello 30
One year ago, I posted of a list of 30 things I wanted to do before today: Pay off my school loans Go to Wanderlust Colorado Get Boudoir Photos Taken Go to a Movie Alone Knit a Sweater Be Capable of Passing the Army Physical Fitness Test Read Pride and Prejudice Go Camping Relearn How…
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Zara’s First Hair Cut
In honor of “Throwback Thursdays,” I’m going to use Thursdays as a day to take a break from my new goal of writing substance and post all of the things from the last few months that I never got around to posting…like Zara getting her first real hair cut. I took her right before we…
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Getting Back On The Horse
After days…weeks…a month of not blogging, the thought of starting up again feels overwhelming. In the beginning, it was easy to let days slip past in a blur of road trips, family visits, and holidays, but once settled back into our routine, time moved slower again. Though still stuffed with work and kids and new…
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Thanksgiving Part 2
We’re nearly at the end of December, so it seems like I ought to take the time to share photos from the second half of our trip to Austin, visiting with Chris’ mom, step-dad, siblings and extended family. When we first arrived, we had a little time warp forward to this month: Chris’s brother and…
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Thanksgiving Part 1
Our little family went to Texas! This Thanksgiving, Chris’ family very, very generously offered to buy us plane tickets so that we could visit his hometown for the first time in more than 4 years. After a very short discussion about the harm (or lack there of) of letting Nora miss two days of kindergarten,…
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Post November Gratitude
📍 ColoradoApparently, I needed a little blogging break and didn’t even know it. I’m not sure that I’ve every gone as long between posts as I did between now and and my previous post – a whole month – and I’m already feeling rusty from the absence of writing. Even though I did not manage a…
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Preparing for November and 30 Days of Thanks
Fall is flying by. It seems like only just recently we were choosing pumpkins at a pumpkin patch and now I realized we need to carve them tonight because tomorrow is Halloween! I cannot believe that October is ending. Actually, it’s not that I can’t believe it, it is that I am completely in denial about…
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Torn: Stay at Home Mom, Working Mom, and Everything In-Between
📍 ColoradoTuesday has become one of my favorite days of the week. We get up, I pack lunches for not one but two little girls, then I drop them both off at their respective schools and return to a quiet house where I have six blissful hours with just me and my computer. This past year, one…
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Saturday Surfing
📍 ColoradoIt seems like it has been forever since I actually managed to get one of these out and my bookmarks folder is exploding with links, so I figured I would make time for a little Saturday Surfing post. Also, I’m ahead on website work and the girls were at their first ever night-time babysitting co-op…
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A Jaunt Through Old Town
I have been quite the slacker about photographing the girls and blogging during the past few weeks. I’ve had a lot of client logos and websites eating up my time, and have also been in super preservation mode. Our rental house has a very prolific apple tree which lead me to rediscover my enthusiasm for…
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Grandpa John Visits + A Trip To The Denver Zoo
Chris’ dad came up for a visit last week much to everyone’s delight. Nora especially was excited about his visit for one reason: sausage. Every time John comes, he buys her breakfast sausage and makes it for breakfast every single day. We don’t buy it for our poor deprived children, who apparently love breakfast sausage…
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Northern Colorado Urban Homestead Tour
This weekend we went on the Northern Colorado Urban Homestead Tour. The tour was a fundraiser for The Gardens at Spring Creek in Fort Collins and featured three houses in Fort Collins and three houses in Loveland which opened up their backyards to visitors. Chris and I have been dreaming about the possibility of growing more…
