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Look what I found! I'm so excited but it will have to wait until after CHRISTmas for me to get it 😍 aff. link

20 years, 1 week, & 1 day married to the love of my life!   These are pictures of pictures 😃  Having fun at a company picnic.  The picture below is the only pic that I'm not pregnant in. It was before we were married.  Lupe, me, Josh and I'm prego with Annette. We are at another company picnic. When FedEx was Kinkos back in the day 😊 Not sure who I'm prego with in this picture.

The kids made this funny video. An after Thanksgiving video 😊 Actor: Lance Music: music chosen by ~Musicl.ly app Director: Brent Camera Man: Caleb

This year I kept Thanksgiving super simple. Last year we ate at Cracker Barrel things were a bit daunting and I really just wanted to sit and enjoy my Thanksgiving dinner with the kids. Normally I don't get to. By the time I sit down most everyone is done and I'm so hot from the eat of the stove (we have a small kitchen). Plus, I always cook for an army when I don't need to. Our plates from Hobby Lobby Soooo, this year I decided only bake 3 pies: 2 sweet potato and 1 pumpkin. Only a few sides instead of gazillions: mashed potatoes, green bean casserole, yams, and cranberry sauce. That was it. I also didn't spend days cooking in the kitchen because there wasn't so much to cook! I loved it AND I sat down with the kiddos and hubby of course. I wasn't over heated (haha) and I enjoyed my Thanksgiving dinner with my family (this is not to say I didn't enjoy other Thanksgiving dinners). It was just a really nice day. Annette helped in the kitchen which I absolutel

Quiet time at the cabin. Just hubby and me. It gave me time to ponder what I'm thankful for. It was a nice weekend getaway celebrating our 20th Anniversary. Hard to believe we've been married for 20 amazing and wonderful years. Of course I brought more of my Thinking Tree journals. 

My hubby and I are not good at taking selfies together but we try. I think this is one of the first ones. I'm sure we must have taken one before.  We took a 20th Anniversary weekend getaway and thought we'd try out hand at selfies. I think we need a selfie stick, bwahahaha  We discovered that our phone will snap a picture if we say, "cheese", so I'm saying cheese while keeping my smile. My hubby on the other hand is saying it in Spanish and the picture snapped as he was saying the 'o' sound in queso.  We tried again. This time with just me saying cheese. We stayed in a one room cabin with a gorgeous view from every window. This picture was funny. I said, "Hey, Dear, let's take one here." His reply, "It's just wood, you want us to take a picture in front of wood?" and as I'm typing this I'm laughing to myself because it was funny but you had to be there. And yes my love of my life is saying, "Queso" :) I said, &

Ethan my 8th grade son has been using The Thinking Tree full time for a while. I need to gather all his journals and write about it in more detail. This post may contain affiliate links. Please see my disclosure. Ethan my 8th grade son has been using The Thinking Tree full time for a while. I need to gather all his journals and write about it in more detail. He's currently using: The Library Based Journal for Boys How to Make Money Timeline of World History Are You a Math Genius Word Hunt And he'll probably start United States Geography soon as well. Here is a page from his Library Based Journal. The lines on the copywork pages are too far apart for Ethan so we added some more. My 8th grade plans that I wrote back in June and it has changed a bit from in October too. Mostly the writing. I really need to buckle down and stick with a writing program with him. Yikes, crazy me. My two oldest were more natural writers than my younger ones. For the month of November Ethan has used