Memorial Day Shenanigans

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Originally uploaded by Phisch
Boy, are we all tired! More photos here.
I got up really late. Please don’t ask me what time it was, the only sign was that the sun was glaring right at me. “Get up, lazy bones!” it seemed to be saying. It didn’t know that I was up really late finishing up [...]

Balcones Canyonlands National Wildlife Refuge

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Originally uploaded by Phisch
More photos on Flickr here.
Field trip today! I still can’t get over how much cool stuff is in and around Austin.
The boys and I packed up bright and all-too-early and headed north by north west to Balcones Canyonlands National Wildlife Refuge. We made it there! Amazing because I got lost [...]

Bastrop State Park Hike/Letterboxing

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Originally uploaded by Phisch
In celebration of our birthdays this week (our = hubby and mine), we thought it would be fun to get outside and go find more letterboxes. Rather than stay in our own neighborhood, so to speak, we wanted to get a little further out.
After checking letterboxing.org, we found out [...]

Our Weekend

Last Friday, after realizing what the date was, I took the boys to the Wildflower Center. Each January, the Center offers free admission. Now granted, it’s winter so most of the trees are bare and there aren’t a whole lot of wildflowers actually in bloom. But that doesn’t stop the boys from enjoying hikes on [...]

Work + Walk = [good kind] Tired

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Originally uploaded by Phisch

If interested, more photos here.
Busy Saturdays are the best because they make the weekends seem so much longer than they really are. Don’t you think?
This morning, the boys left me at church at the bright and early hour of 8 a.m. I volunteered to help make curtains to put up so that [...]