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Month: May 2012

Working on Growing Old Together

Posted in Family

It’s hard to believe 15 years have passed since D and I said “I do”. Time has passed. We’ve gotten older. We were young back then. Yes, we were young, but we had already faced hardship and loss together before we exchanged our rings. We didn’t look at marriage or life with rose colored glasses, but we did have hope, faith, and love. We would build our marriage on those building blocks. We would make mistakes along the way, but we would make them together and learn as we went along. We decided that we would love each other forever…

Silk Fruit & Protein

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If you’ve ever had protein shakes, you know that most of them taste – well – horrible. Yes, there are a few out there on the market that taste okay, but they’re usually just something that you drink because you want the extra protein. Silk understood this dilemma and came up with an alternative way to drink your protein – Silk Fruit & Protein. It’s a blend of fruit juices and soy milk which tastes like a light smoothie with no powdery aftertaste. It comes in 3 different flavor combinations: Strawberry Banana Mango Peach Mixed Berry Each 1-cup serving has 150 calories,…

An Early Anniversary Surprise

Posted in Family, and Photography

On Sunday, Daddy and Munchkin headed out to the grocery store to get much needed groceries. Our pantry, fridge, and freezer were looking rather bare. Not having the staples is no fun. I made up a list of all the things we needed (at least as many as I could remember) because my head was hurting too much to venture out with them. Normally, sending them out for groceries is a tad dangerous as I never know what might make it into the cart, but this time very few extras found their way home. One of the extras was a…

Book Review: Titanic Warning

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Titanic Warning by Casey Sabella Book Description: Near midnight, the heralded and huge White Star liner Titanic, her invincibility never before in question, is a tiny speck on a vast ocean. Four days out on a much-anticipated maiden voyage, the luxury vessel has been fatally grazed by an iceberg. Labeled unsinkable by an adoring public, Titanic will plunge beneath the cold waters of the North Atlantic in under three hours. In Titanic Warning, author Casey Sabella blends a vivid re-telling of the disaster with commentary on the state of the modern-day Church and the lack of commitment to discipling the…