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Home remedies
After a long hard kickboxing class yesterday, my body went “ouch” and asked me why I did mean, cruel things to it. I replied with a relaxing movie on the couch (with lots of cuddles in between), an interlude of James reading aloud “What’s your poo telling you?” (with lots of giggles in between) and…
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The Great Pumpkin
Saturday was our day full with pumpkin-patch scouring, lunchtime beach explorations and a good ol fashioned pumpkin carving contest. James and I love the youth that we get to work with and days like this just reminds us of the little family we’ve become. These are just a few shots of our day. We were…
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Friday Night Lights
We just love it…
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You’re really here!
Hello Friday, I’ve waited for you forever it seems… Here’s our list of get-to-do’s this weekend, we can’t wait!!! And what are your plans?? Happy weekend, xoxo CM
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Family day
Yesterday we caught up with some of our family that lives over the hill (since you have to travel through forests and valleys and mini mountain ranges just to leave Santa Cruz county- heh, but seriously..) and they came to our little neck of the woods. By catch up it means that we ate Tacos…
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Point Lobos, Carmel
We spent the day with our amazing/fabulous faraway friends (they’re from Switzerland) and had some much-needed time together hiking along the cliffs at Point Lobos in Carmel, scurrying up and down the rocks and through the tide pools…it was gorgeous! Then made it back up the coast for dinner and shopping! Aren’t they wonderful? Homemade baby…
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The Dinner Guest
Dinner parties. We’re still hitting our stride… The evidence: A meal that consists of very disconnected side-dishes and tons of protein. IE: a delicious lemon-pepper chicken, accompanied by black beans, roasted potatoes, mushroom risotto, sausage, and a broccoli/carrot dish that came out 25 minutes late that I shamelessly gobbled up as everybody else was already…
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Dress
Just came back home for a monthly meeting at church, where we got to hear from a very dear-to-our-heart pastor from a sister church.. It’s so good to remember how generous God is. Matthias shared a picture of a girl with a torn (broken) dress, who was looking at with such desperation because she knew…
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Happy Autumn!
Status today: “extremely excited for fall”…here is our fall love list! Have a Harvest par-tay…finding inspiration from this one in Sweet Paul Magazine Run through the sunflowers and eat jam at Swanton Berry Farm Actually decorate with a little fall in our home Find some perfectly chestnutty-colored boots Brew some apple cider Bake a pie…
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And so we begin
A time-line to catch you up on the story of US… See there’s this boy named James, and yes, he’s really handsome. So much in fact, that his sisters call him “handsome man”…that’s pretty stinkin handsome. He loves Jesus, baseball, people, and he’s Italian (amongst many other qualities not able to be listed at the…
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