tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9035474044308307142024-02-21T00:26:57.668-08:00frychikfrychikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10245763943872543668noreply@blogger.comBlogger456125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-903547404430830714.post-17667317125964474832014-01-03T09:18:00.001-08:002014-01-03T09:18:53.017-08:00Broccoli and Peanuts...<div style="text-align: center;">
If your were left on a deserted island...</div>
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You knew ahead of time and were told you could bring two types of food...</div>
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But not your two favorite...</div>
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What would you choose?</div>
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I asked our son Tyler this question the other night...</div>
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We were playing cards and I suddenly wanted to ask him this question...</div>
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I asked because I swear he could live on pizza and nutella...</div>
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So naturally when I asked him the question I told him the two foods he could not take were pizza and nutella...</div>
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He thought for about 20 seconds and said...</div>
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Broccoli and peanuts...</div>
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To which I about fell of the floor laughing!</div>
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If you know Tyler he has a very dry sense of humor and he cracks us up...</div>
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The delivery with a straight face is the icing on the cake!</div>
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He looked at me hurt...."what? I'm serious!" he declared...</div>
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To which I said "you DESPISE broccoli and never, ever eat any nuts!"</div>
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To which he replied "I read an article that stated: if you were ever stranded the two best foods for you to have would be broccoli and peanuts for their nutritional values"</div>
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So now you know how best to survive!</div>
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Happy New Year to you all!</div>
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I hope you are all optimistic about 2014 in-spite of ObamaCare and anything else looming that may be causing you some anxious thoughts...</div>
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I read the book 1,000 gifts last year and I've been challenging myself to write down things I'm grateful for...To be honest some days are easier than others but there is Always something!</div>
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I'm not as faithful about it as I would like...I began last spring and I have currently written down 573</div>
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But I know I have a much bigger number than that to be thankful for. One thing I have been very thankful for is our home...</div>
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Its not grand...there are no granite counter tops or fancy fixtures...</div>
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But it is ours and I continue to be thankful...</div>
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I am a restless sort and this past Christmas was our 11 year anniversary in this house!</div>
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As a kid I moved a lot and that continued after I was married.</div>
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The first 14 years of our marriage we moved 10 times!</div>
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I believe the longest I had ever in my entire life lived in one place before now was 4 years...</div>
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My point being...I love our home but I am restless!</div>
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What does this mean?</div>
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No we are not moving...</div>
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But I am nesting...</div>
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I have pulled almost all the pictures off my walls, bookcases etc and reorganized and rehung them...</div>
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I didn't take any before pictures so you will just have to take my word for it...</div>
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The empty spot to the left is for Tyler's senior picture...</div>
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I love it! It's amazing what a difference something like that can make...</div>
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I am left wondering what I do with the large family portrait that was hanging there...</div>
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Obviously you can't throw it out...</div>
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But I only have so much wall space and I'm trying to de-clutter...</div>
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It's too big for a photo album...</div>
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Oh and on another note...look at how cute my boys are!</div>
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I miss those little guys!</div>
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I also tackled our teeny tiny master bathroom...</div>
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I had painted it some awful color and then used a rag on it about 10 years ago and as I was painting it I kept thinking...</div>
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This is so UGLY! Why on earth has this been on my walls for so long???</div>
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This map came into my possession about 10 years ago...</div>
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I'm not saying how I got it...but I have had it tucked in my closet for years with the intention of hanging it up somewhere in my home...</div>
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While I realize many people would not appreciate this vintage WWI map of Europe...</div>
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I LOVE it!</div>
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So it is now hanging in our bedroom.</div>
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I also decided my desk needed some shelving about it...</div>
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So four areas of our home have had mini makeovers and it feels good...</div>
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I have also been purging...</div>
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Going through cupboards, shelves, closets etc...</div>
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I'm even going to move the washer and dryer and refrigerator and vacuum under them...</div>
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Its a very exciting life I lead!</div>
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Happy 2014 may it have many new beginnings and blessings for you!</div>
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So Christmas has come and gone already and today is the last day of 2013...</div>
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In some ways 2013 sucked...</div>
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Christmas seems to take its time getting here...</div>
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But then it speeds by like a bullet train!</div>
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Already it has been a week since Christmas Eve...</div>
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Please notice the child yawning as he looks through his stocking...</div>
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Just the four of us opening gifts...and yawning :)</div>
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He is always appreciative...but I notice that whatever I purchased him usually stays on his dresser untouched...</div>
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I married a nerd... :)</div>
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My adorable nieces showed up :)</div>
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I remember wedding dress shopping...</div>
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I remember I had a pile of gowns in the room but I already knew that the one at the bottom would be my dress...</div>
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It was gorgeous! I loved the material!</div>
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I loved that it wasn't overly poofy!</div>
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I loved it!</div>
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I remember Jeff struggling with the one million buttons... :)</div>
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I never paid to have my dress "properly" stored...</div>
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Until yesterday...</div>
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I have never wanted to try the dress on because on the day I was married that baby fit me like a glove..</div>
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The arms were even tight!</div>
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I think my "girth" is at least double what it was 25 years ago...</div>
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25 years ago today we said "I do"...<br />
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I have done 99.9% of my Christmas shopping online this year!</div>
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Snow = a break</div>
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I was very surprised when a family approached me to do their Christmas family shoot. My focus with photography has been landscape/travel which has sold exactly 2 pictures in the last year and a half...and especially since I'm currently without a source of income I was happy to accept the job...<br />
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Two paying jobs out of the blue! I was so thankful and the families seemed very happy with their pics...</div>
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Inspired and thankful I decided it was time to take my friend Jill's advice and on Friday I created a new FB page Shelly Fry Photography. By Sunday night I had 100 likes :) Which means at least 100 people now know and are supportive of my new venture...Of course I haven't given up on my landscape/travel photography, there is a link to my website on the FB page.</div>
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The best part of last week was having both of my boys home where they belong!</div>
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We haven't had Josh for an entire week since the first part of June!</div>
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He had to have surgery on Tuesday to have a cyst removed from his neck...I had deep dark fears that what was supposed to be a cyst was really something much more sinister and was tremendously relieved when the surgery was over and the Dr. said all went well and it wasn't wrapped around or attached to anything vital...</div>
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Josh is safely back at WWU...</div>
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Ella was VERY helpful!</div>
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I had chosen the book Waiting to Be Heard - by Amanda Knox...</div>
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My favorite meal this fall!</div>
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Teddy is loving Fall - she has such a happy face! We had a huge scare with her last night...our neighbors have 3 huge dogs and they all came at her while Jeff and I were out walking her...It was so scary as we tried to fight those stupid dogs off as they were lunging at her...makes me so mad! She doesn't have a mean bone in her body!</div>
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It is getting cold! Love it! I love the clear blue skies that have come along with the cold! I am starting to hope for snow... </div>
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My boy is home for a WEEK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!</div>
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He arrived safely late Friday night for Thanksgiving break!</div>
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He has not been home for more than 3 nights since mid June!</div>
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And I loved every minuet of it! Those who know me know that normally that would be something I would grouch about. I was so inspired by the two women who led out in the seminar, both NG photographers, their pictures and stories were unbelievable...</div>
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In other very exciting news I had the opportunity to shoot a families pictures for their Christmas cards. A real honest to goodness paying job! And they turned out great and the family LOVED them! I wish I could show you but they don't want them posted...</div>
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I have another job today - a Senior portrait session with a very handsome young man I have known his entire life...should be fun!</div>
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Since we arrived after dark I was anxious to wake up and see the crystal blue Caribbean sea and sky...Instead I saw pouring down rain. If you look closely you can see the drops falling off our thatched roof...</div>
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I love the pattern of the thatched roofs! I'm thinking of redoing our roof this way...</div>
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There were coconuts everywhere! The trees were loaded with them and they are heavy! If one of these babies fell on you it would hurt!</div>
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Many of the homes we say were up on stilts like this one and their clothes lines were under the homes - which works well during the rainy season...however with the high humidity I wonder how long it takes for their clothes to dry...</div>
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Bananas taste so much better when you can eat one that was ripe when picked. On our flight from Placencia to Belize City I sat next to Gary a banana buyer for England. He spends 6 months a year traveling to Central and South America to inspect the bananas they are buying. He said it takes about 2 weeks from the time a banana is picked (green) until it is in the stores for sale...</div>
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One day when the waves were bigger Jeff and I sat on the lower dock...the waves would slap us in the butt and get us wet. So we called that part of the dock the "butt slapper" We know how to have fun!</div>
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25 years (Dec 18) and going strong :)</div>
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While we were in Belize we spent a morning exploring Monkey River - Which I keep wanting to call Monkey Town which makes the song Funky Town play over and over again in my head...</div>
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To get to Monkey River you have to go by boat.</div>
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There are no roads, or cars in Monkey River which is kinda cool I think...</div>
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So four of us plus our guide set off by boat to explore Monkey River and see the Howler Monkeys that live there...</div>
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It took about 40 min by boat some of it wandering through mangroves, how our driver knew where to turn when is a mystery to me! He said it took him months to learn his way through the maze!</div>
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Monkey River is not a fancy place by any stretch of the imagination...</div>
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After ordering our lunch to be eaten after our visit to the jungle to see the monkeys just up river, we hopped back in to the boat and began seeing some pretty cool things</div>
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Crocodile! We saw several. This one was so close to the boat I could have reached over and given it a pat...I'm sure he would have loved that!</div>
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These are birds nests, which I thought were super cool and I've decided our birds here in North America are just lazy! They need to step up in their building abilities!</div>
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Sadly after walking around for 25 min and then standing around waiting for our guide who disappeared into the jungle for about 25 min we didn't see a single monkey :( I was very sad and frustrated that I was going to leave Monkey River without a single monkey sighting :(</div>
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We then headed back to "town" to eat our lunch. After we finished our guide told us he had found one monkey in a tree behind some houses near by...I was thrilled! </div>
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We went trooping through peoples yards and there he was...one lone Howler Monkey...</div>
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And he looked right at me!</div>
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He even howled for us... </div>
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While I was disappointed to not see a family of them I was relieved to see one and to be able to get some good shots of him...</div>
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I spoke with someone about their trip to Monkey River the day after we went and she told us how they saw lots and lots of monkeys and even a baby!</div>
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I saw one and that was better than none!</div>
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For a short time we were escorted by dolphins!</div>
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I love, love, loved this moment! The dolphins were playing all around the bow of the boat...</div>
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It was perfect! We were all excited by the dolphin escort. Other people on the boat had been going out all week and they said it was the first time they had seen dolphins.</div>
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The water and sky were amazing shades of blue and the water was so warm I could have swam in it all day without a single goose bump!</div>
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After practicing in the pool the day before we were ready to snorkel!</div>
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Barracuda! We saw a large school of these guys - but they were just babies...</div>
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Manta Ray....</div>
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We absolutely loved it!</div>
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I am so thankful for that amazing day and the entire trip!</div>
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It seems like a dream now...</div>
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A week ago today was gloriously sunny and we played in the sea and pool all day...</div>
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Hard to imagine as I look out my window this morning...</div>
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A place like that is coexisting with us at this very moment...</div>
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The world is such a large, incomprehensible place!</div>
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Here are 10 things I have learned since traveling to Belize...</div>
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1. It can happen! After talking and planning and wishing for 6 years, we made it! Every time I travel internationally I am in shock! When something turns from dream to reality it is a powerful thing!</div>
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2. That traveling without students, children, is incredibly relaxing! I established a no friend rule while we were gone. Jeff and I were not to make any friends on this trip it was just he and I. It was wonderful! </div>
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4. The Belizian people are the warmest, friendliest people I have ever met!</div>
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5. There are very few flying bugs (aka flies, etc) so most places in Belize are wide open and most homes don't even has glass windows, just a wooden shutter.</div>
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6. Bring mosquito spray when you go to the Jungle!</div>
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7. They have ginormous fern like bushes that grow in the Jungle. What we would call a "forest" is a jungle there and instead of "normal" trees that we are used to there are palm trees and palm fronds and vines and things that will poison you if you touch it and SNAKES! However, I did not see a single snake!</div>
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8. It is so incredibly easy to sneak into Guatemala that you can do it while looking for passport control!</div>
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9. Belize is the only country I have ever visited that charges you to leave! We had to pay at tax of almost $40. US!</div>
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10. You can travel to a place and forget all of your worries and responsibilities and focus on the man who has helped make your life everything you ever dreamed it could be!</div>
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I'm very, very excited...</div>
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I'm so excited I was wide awake at 5 am this morning...</div>
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Which is unfortunate since I will have to get up at 3:45 am tomorrow...</div>
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I'm so excited that I won't be able to sleep tonight...</div>
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Which means I I just might be able to catch a nap on the plane...</div>
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After 6 years of talking about going to Belize for our 20th wedding anniversary...</div>
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And having to cancel the first time...</div>
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We are finally going to celebrate our 25th! (officially on Dec. 18 but I'm betting we will make it!)</div>
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Some have asked why Belize?</div>
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As Jeff and I discussed where we should go we decided on the following criteria...</div>
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1. Required a passport</div>
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2. We would only have a week so stay in the Western Hemisphere</div>
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4. Warm, tropical, sands, water</div>
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5. Somewhere we had never been before</div>
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It also helped that a friend had gone and highly recommended it...</div>
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So Belize it is!</div>
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PDX to Huston to Belize City where we have to get on a TINY plane :( and finally land on a tiny airstrip in Placencia...</div>
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The huge variety of colors...</div>
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So once again I have dropped the ball on blogging...</div>
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Day after day of blue skies, amazing fall colors...</div>
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Tyler keeps growing and is getting very close to his dad's height...</div>
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Because of his super busy schedule we have been slow in getting him through the process of getting licensed...And maybe just maybe I have been dragging my feet on this...</div>
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And I LOVE being with my family! We had milkshakes, went and saw Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 and it was worth the many hours on the road!</div>
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We even got a quick visit with my sweet niece! She's so tiny...hard to believe they are related!</div>
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The first run we went 4 miles! She was so encouraging and supportive, I have continued to run with them. And in the week and a half I have run 17 miles! Unbelievable to me...I'm still struggling with shin splints...but it does make it easier to run with others...especially Denise she is in such great shape that while I'm sucking air she is just jabbering away...I love it!</div>
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We went trick or treating with my adorable nieces...who were worried I would steal their candy...</div>
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I thought I would just share some of the pictures I took while in San Diego...</div>
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I found it challenging to get a really great picture of "The Kiss" the challenge being that they are like 50 feet tall and what I really wanted was an angle that showed their faces...</div>
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Very nice place to stay in...</div>
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This ship was active in the Persian Gulf War....</div>
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A floating city!</div>
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Not a perspective you often see... :)</div>
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On it are the names and aircraft as well as destination for each mission...</div>
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What I found really interesting about that was the soldier who wrote the information had to write it backwards and quickly since he stood on the opposite side of the glass from the Captain...</div>
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The view of "The Kiss" from the water...</div>
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San Diego is a really pretty city...</div>
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And not a hill in sight :)</div>
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This was one of the most beautiful sunsets I have EVER seen!</div>
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It's very different celebrating a child's 19th birthday than celebrating a child's 1st birthday...<br />
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This is his first sugar or at least was supposed to be...we believed it was best to not feed him any sweets his first year of life. However, his rotten uncle Cary did give him an illegal ice cream cone that summer....Did it have an affect on him? I have no idea...he does have a Massive sweet tooth!<br />
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Which I'm struggling with mightily...and I'm not sure if I'm going to beg my husband to drive to WW for one night, so we can see him. Normally that wouldn't be a big deal but next week we are flying to San Diego on Sunday morning (which means we would have to drive home late Sat. night after Josh's soccer game which is another reason to go). We then fly home on Wed and drive to WW Thur. morning for a soccer tournament...<br />
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But the facts are that on the day of his birthday Sat Oct 5 we will be here all day with no plans and that just feels wrong!!!! <br />
But what if he ends up with plans all day with his college friends and doesn't really want his mommy and daddy showing up...<br />
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I do realize that there is a point in life when you don't see your kiddos on their birthdays...I'm just not sure I'm ready for it...Now I just mail a bday card order a gift to be delivered to his dorm room and call it good?<br />
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Ugh things are definitely changing around here...<br />
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Happy 19th to my first born...you are loved!<br />
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Its surprising how quickly something like a kitchen fire can happen...<br />
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I have this awesome electric teapot that my mom bought for me. It looks like a teapot you would set on the eye of the stove and turn on but you don't...or at least you really, really shouldn't. This teapot has a base which plugs into the wall and you just flip a switch and it heats up...and the best part...it turns itself off when it is hot! So no annoying whistle blasting through the house when you've become distracted doing something else....<br />
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On Sat. we bribed my mom and step-dad to come over for lunch so he could fix our heat pump...it was stormy so of course hot drinks were needed...As we made our first batch of hot drinks, I clearly remember taking the teapot off of the handy dandy base and setting it on the stove top so my mom could use it...then we all settled in the living room...after awhile one of us ( I will not say who) returned to the kitchen to make another cup of coffee. Naturally seeing the teapot on the eye of the stove he/she just turned the heat on and went back into the living room to wait for the water to heat...<br />
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In the mean time I get up to use the bathroom...as I'm finishing up I hear the smoke detector going off...odd I think. As I head towards the kitchen I notice as I pass the living room that it is empty and there is a significant amount of smoke billowing from the kitchen into the family room...As I enter the kitchen I see three of my family members frantically performing various tasks...opening windows...water was running a smoking melted teapot in one hand...<br />
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Apparently when the individual returned to the kitchen to check on the teapot it was engulfed in FLAMES...but thankfully (I'd like to pause here and say I was mildly disappointed that the fire didn't catch on just enough to destroy the cabinets around the stove...I have been wanting to redo that area not to mention there would have been an obvious need to call firemen...) he/she was able to get the fire out as soon as the teapot was removed from the stove...<br />
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We have wanted to redo our stove, oven situation for awhile and last fall had some people come by and give us a quote on the job. During lunch on Sat. (before the fire) we were discussing all the problems with the kitchen, one of them being that our wooden cabinets are nowhere near code for how high they should be over the stove top...we also discussed the bare wires under the cabinet and the fact that we no longer had a working fire extinguisher in the house...</div>
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So last weekend Jeff and I were once again home alone. Ty was off on Bible Conference which meant we could do the things that Ty does not enjoy...<br />
So we decided it would be fun to grab a couple of friends who are also biking enthusiasts and head over to Sauvie's Island and bike the island with stops at the pumpkin farms. That was when the weathermen were forecasting a lovely 70 degrees on Saturday...<br />
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By the next day my friend was texting me with the updated forecast...apparently the remnants of a Typhoon were headed our way....maybe not such ideal biking weather...<br />
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And indeed the weatherman was correct it rained and rained and the wind even blew, so we hunkered down on Saturday...<br />
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There were other things distracting us that day...first off we noticed our heat pump was having trouble...<br />
Then our gutters were having trouble keeping up with the rain so my handyman headed out in the storm to try and fix things...<br />
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By Sunday things were plenty soggy but I was restless and needed to get out...<br />
Plus being born and raised in the NW a little rain and wind doesn't scare me none!<br />
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We decided to head to Sauvie's Island with our rubber boots and rain jackets...Not because we needed pumpkins...I was thrilled when my garden produced 20 gorgeous pumpkins this year!<br />
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The heater is purring away and pumpkins I did not have to pay for line my walkway...</div>
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Which involved squeezing in a wedding...</div>
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Driving to the Dalles and arriving at 11 pm...</div>
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Waking up at 6am...</div>
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For one thing I have found the perfect location for either of my boys weddings...</div>
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One of my former students was married in a beautiful outdoor ceremony...</div>
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The weather was perfect!</div>
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And there was true love with a happily ever after ending...</div>
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I love the look on her face!</div>
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She looks like she just got away with something major!</div>
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Once there were 6 sisters and now there are 3...</div>
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All born and raised in West Tennessee...</div>
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I got excited there because I had the beginnings of a poem...</div>
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Jix lives in New Mexico and she is 95 (her real name is Edith)</div>
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Grammy, as I know her is 92 - she is called Preacher by her family a nickname her dad gave her when she went to a campmeeting at age 5 and came home and rolled around on the floor saying she was a "Holy Roly Preacher" :) Her real name is Jose Lucille Fry - but no one calls her Jose she has always gone by Lucille....(I really like the name Jose)</div>
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and finally the baby of the family and her daddy's last hope for a boy...Johnnie is 88...</div>
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That's her real name Johnnie...she hated having a boys name growing up...</div>
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Jix still complains about the time she got a spanking because she stepped on preacher's toes...</div>
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Accusing preacher of playing it up "it didn't hurt you none!" she said :)</div>
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Johnnie and her husband Ray live in West Tenn.</div>
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Johnnie and Ray drove out with a nephew of theirs and swung by New Mexico and picked up Jix on their way to Washington...</div>
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So at 4 O'clock we plunked ourselves down on the sidelines to watch him play...</div>
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He didn't :(</div>
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No longer the superstar he was in highschool he has to pay his dues...</div>
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I wanted to march over to the coach and demand he put Josh in...</div>
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