Amber’s Blog
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World Breastfeeding Week After La Leche League
📍 ColoradoToday is August 1st, which marks the first day of World Breastfeeding Week. For the first time in 5 years, I did not plan a big celebration or orchestrate a walk. I didn’t attend a single breastfeeding event, and I haven’t been to a La Leche League meeting in months. Last summer, as my business…
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A Weekend With Friends in Medicine Bow National Forest
Lately, all I’ve been posting have been giant photo bomb posts of the mountains, but I’m finding our forays into the wilderness around us so breathtaking that it’s hard not to share. We planned four camping trips this summer, one per month June through September; two of the trips were for our family alone and…
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Camping in Colorado State Forest State Park
On a Friday afternoon in June, we drove up the Poudre Canyon, through Roosevelt National Forest, to State Forest State Park. Chris and I had learned a little late this year that people start reserving camping spots in Colorado as early as January, so there were slimmer pickings when he went to reserve spots for us…
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July Celebrations
July brings one of our favorite holidays. I’m a real sucker for red, white, and blue, summer sun and simple celebrations of unity and promise, so I get super excited when the 4th of July roles around. Just like last year, we joined Nora’s school in the Fourth of July parade, only this year she…
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Backyard Camping
After our trial run last fall in the freezing cold with borrowed gear and a sick baby, we crazily decided that camping regularly was something we wanted to do…because it really could only be uphill from there, right? The only problem we had was that we did not own a single piece of camping gear.…
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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…
