Friday Night with Bottle Shock

Apparently, people who swear make better pals...

I'm making good ones then:





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Spelling Bee Champion(s)

 

This is DB's picture of the three finalists, and the random seating R to L is also how we ended up in the rankings. As he put it: "Of the around 100 people at the spelling bee last night - it all came down to these three favorite people of mine! Congrats to Maya, Jill, and Pete on the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place finishes!"  (I'm the odd one out here, Jill and Pete are DB's much loved family, after all :)

We weren't really going at it Spellbound-style. The event was for Child Advocacy and we'd been in groups up until the final round, and I'd been lucky to have bestie K as well as my CASA director and coordinator on my team. But yes, this did help me cross one more thing of my mental list of things I meant to get to after I moved to America.

* Nu and Big A were going to come to cheer me on, but kids weren't allowed, so they stayed home.

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Blooming

My Christmas amaryllis!









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Gifts From Afar

So the flowers we sent my parents  were delivered, and they're just as lovely as they looked in the catalogue...





The cake? We're all still giggling at the writing on this:



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Golden Wedding Anniversary

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A Picture of Ice and Sun

On our hike today, L pointed out that while the river was finally thawed and flowing, you could still see how high the snow had been from the rings of ice around the tree trunks.

#RedCedar






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#BalanceForBetter2019

International Women's Day tea @ MacCurdy House

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