Why We Ride – Three Rivers Race

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Last year, after the girls and I rode in the Three Rivers Race, I said that I would explain why the race is so important to us.  I posted a slideshow about The Riders, and I wrote another post explai... Read More

Dancing Queen

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When Harley was younger, she took tap and ballet lessons, but unfortunately, we moved from Hermiston to Irrigon and it was too hard to get her back and forth to lessons, so she had to quit.  She had ... Read More

Critical Mass

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The most recent assignment in my Design II class is called Critical Mass.  We were tasked with building a sculpture using no more than two types of items, and we had to use at least nine of each item... Read More

Broken

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Me + Snowboarding = Bad JuJu! AmyNature Girl. Mom. Wife. Friend. Photographer. Sewer. Crafter. Artist. To borrow a phrase – “Yeet Ye Riche” seaofestrogen.com... Read More

They Are Underwear!

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After Harley’s dance class last weekend, I wrote a post about the “foot underwear” I had to order for her.  I was astonished that a piece of dance foot-wear was called foot-undiez. ... Read More

Snow Bunnies!

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Most people who live around here know about Anthony Lakes Ski Area.  It is the local ski area, and it is about 20 miles outside of North Powder, Oregon.  When I was in high school, I started skiing,... Read More

For the Birds!

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Today.  It is a day that I would be perfectly happy just deleting from my memory.  It was a day that had a rough start, and with the exception of a small bright spot during ceramics class, just kept... Read More

Seriously? Foot Underwear?

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Harley used to take dance lessons (tap &  ballet) when we lived in Hermiston.  She has really wanted to get back into them, but her dad and I haven’t been able to work out the logistics of... Read More

Time For Some Hoops

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Emma’s basketball team had games in Pilot Rock yesterday, and today they played at home against Weston-McEwen.  I was pretty excited to be able to watch her play because I haven’t had muc... Read More

My Year – 2011 In Review

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I’ve been working on writing this post in my head for a while now, and I decided the only way to actually get it done was to sit down and start typing.  If a stranger looked at my life during t... Read More

All-Star

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I spent the weekend in Forest Grove at the 1A/2A State Championship Volleyball Tournament watching my oldest daughter and her team compete. The girls all did great, and the team placed 5th overall whi... Read More