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1867 Baseball at Greenfield Village

July 4, 2010 By Shawn Ann 4 Comments
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Yesterday we took another trip to Greenfield Village and decided to check out the old time baseball game that takes place during the summer weekends.  They played by the rules of 1867.  It’s great to watch, although we didn’t stay for the entire event. Today was the La-De-Dahs vs the Royal Oak Wahoos!  You can… [Continue Reading]

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Your Family Constitution Book Review & Giveaway CLOSED

March 14, 2010 By Shawn Ann
Your Family Constitution

I would like to introduce you to a new book, Your Family Constitution by Scott Gale. About your Family Constitution What do you get when you cross two working professionals, two active kids and a dog? Chaos! For more than a decade, Scott Gale and his wife, Karen, juggled three bowling bowls- kids, personal needs,… [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Book Review, Giveaways Tagged With: Family, Family Values, Giveaway, Household Structure, Review, Scott Gale, Your Family cConstitution

They’re Your Parents, Too Book Review

March 13, 2010 By Shawn Ann Leave a Comment
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I would like to introduce you to a new book, They’re Your Parents, Too!: How Siblings Can Survive Their Parents’ Aging Without Driving Each Other Crazy by Francine Russo. About They’re Your Parents, Too! Your parents are growing older and are getting forgetful, starting to slow down, or worse. Suddenly you find yourself at the… [Continue Reading]

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Christmas 2009 Part 2

January 7, 2010 By Shawn Ann Leave a Comment
1st present from Nanna & PawPaw

We got to have technically three Christmas’ this year, Christmas Eve with my mom, brother, and his kids, and then Christmas day just the three of us, and then Christmas / New Years with the In-Laws.  It’s taken me a little while to get this post done, mainly because I’m back to work since the… [Continue Reading]

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Happy New Year

January 2, 2010 By Shawn Ann 2 Comments
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So, I’m a day late, but we’ve had company.  The New Year is upon us and we can start fresh with our goals.  I technically started my goal almost 2 months ago, and unfortunately I haven’t been doing much about it.  So, I’m going to start it over, but not today.  I’m going to wait… [Continue Reading]

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Going Camping

July 2, 2009 By Shawn Ann Leave a Comment

Because of the 4th of July holdiay, we will be having a 3 day weekend and we are taking advantage of it!  We will be going camping this weekend, leaving home sometime tomorrow and not coming back until sometime Sunday! It’ll be an interesting camping trip as this is our first camping trip with Thaddeus… [Continue Reading]

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House Hunting

January 31, 2009 By Shawn Ann Leave a Comment

That’s right!  We are house hunting!  It’s the perfect time to buy a house here in Michigan, so we are looking to do just that. We are looking to stay pretty much in the same area, but we’ll see what we can find and if we can find something we really like and want here. … [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: House Tagged With: buying a home, Family, House, moving

Ok, here’s the pictures

December 31, 2008 By Shawn Ann 1 Comment

Well some of them, you’ll have to go to my gallery and view the rest Thaddeus having his first swim (picture didn’t come out too good but got a video, not uploaded yet) Christmas Eve in the hotel room. Gave Thaddeus some presents to open.

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Merry Christmas

December 24, 2008 By Shawn Ann Leave a Comment

So we are spending the Christmas holiday down in Kentucky this year, writing this from the hotel room as we speak!  Horrible drive down here, but we made it safe.  I’ll probably rant about the drive later.  Just wanted to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and I’ll be sure to post pictures and maybe even… [Continue Reading]

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Family Pictures

December 13, 2008 By Shawn Ann 1 Comment

We got our family pictures done last night  I think for the most part they came out great, but that’s just me Here are the pictures! And don’t forget, you can always view all of our pictures by going to our Gallary!

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