Tag Archives: mom

Events, Family, Inspirational, Memories

Word That Describe My Mother (Because it’s her 70th birthday today!)

  • Creative
  • Super smart
  • Funny
  • Beautiful
  • Energetic
  • Adventurous
  • Curious
  • Clever
  • Enthusiastic
  • Driven
  • Planner
  • Kind
  • Empathetic
  • Word-wise
  • Competitive
  • Loving
  • Teacher
  • Mama

Events, Family, Favorites, Memories, Nature, Travel

Places I Visited On My Road Trip of Awesomeness Earlier This Summer

  • Mount Rushmore
  • Wall Drug (Wall, South Dakota)
  • Gillette, Wyoming
  • Missoula, Montana (including dinner with 2 college roommates)
  • Spokane, Washington
  • Idaho (a gas station somewhere along I-90)
  • Columbia River Gorge
  • Horsetail & Multnomah Falls (Hood River, Oregon)
  • Portland, Oregon
  • Crescent City, California
  • Redwoods National Forest
  • A beach somewhere along the California coast
  • Trinidad Bay & Memorial Lighthouse (Trinidad, California)
  • Redding, California
  • Reno, Nevada (visit with the Lewis family)
  • Virginia City, Nevada
  • Lake Tahoe Overlook
  • Bonneville Salt Flats (Utah)
  • Salt Lake City, Utah
  • Casa Bonita (Denver, Colorado, with another college friend)
  • State Capitol Building, Lincoln, Nebraska
  • Huxley, Iowa (Aunt & Uncle’s house)
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Columbia River Gorge
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Multnomah Falls
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State Line

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Wyoming
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Salt Flats

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Casa Bonita

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Family, Memories

Mom Memories, in Honor of my Mother’s Birthday Today

  • The Green Semi-truck
  • Weird
  • Jael took a nail….
  • Put on a sweater; I’m cold.
  • Jungle Boy
  • Mimeograph
  • Big Blue Bus
  • Awana Olympics – the Balloon Relay

 

Events, Family, Food, Games, Holidays, Travel

My Labor Day Weekend in Mountain Home, Arkansas

  • Yoshi’s Japanese Steakhouse
  • Auto Zone with Dad
  • Mom’s bean & chicken tortilla wraps
  • East Side Baptist Church
  • Visit with Aunt Vivian
  • Lunch at Gaston’s to celebrate Mom’s birthday
  • Bull Shoals Lake Visitor Center
  • Bird Bingo
  • Cheesy Hallmark movie
  • Two roadrunner and a fawn running across the road
  • Scrabble club
  • Country walk
  • Gaston Wildflower Meadow
  • Zero Sprint data signal
  • One geocache located
  • Planning for Team Wendy murder mystery fundraiser
  • Editing for the Alaskan Pioneer

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Events, Social Media, Television

What I Did Besides Watch the Superbowl

  1. Took out the trash
  2. Went to the laundromat
  3. Listened to the ear-piercing shrieks of wild animals children in the laundromat
  4. Silently cursed the parents of aforementioned children
  5. Played Bingo and HotShot on Facebook
  6. Lost to my mother in Scrabble
  7. Found Jack Johnson’s music online