Archive for June 2009

House projects are never ending

There has been a few projects around the inside house that I have been meaning to get to so I can say the whole inside is done (with the exception of furniture and rugs of course). One of these projects was cleaning the brick wall. This is one of the things that first attracted us [...]

June 28th, 2009
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Water Rockets!!

Friday night was our monthly volunteer night for the Angel Kiss Foundation Kid’s Club. For the activity we had someone from Sierra Nevada Journeys come and teach us to make water rockets. Each volunteer had 5 kids and we had to figure out how to make the rockets with the supplies given to us. We [...]

June 28th, 2009
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…and it came out of the closet

This morning I woke up around 6am to this strange noise. At first I thought maybe the one of the cats was trapped in a room, but usually they will meow and scratch. This was more of scratching noise like the sound of branches getting blown across your window in a storm. I was still [...]

June 21st, 2009
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NW Eating Club

Yeah, you read right. We started a NW eating club. This is a very exclusive club and only people who live in the 89503 and 89523 zip codes are welcome to join. We had our first meeting last night at Bully’s (in the NW of course) with a pretty good turn out of 10 people. [...]

June 21st, 2009
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The Bachelorette

My friend Nate is getting married on August 1st so the weekend of June 6-7 Afton, Jessi and I surprised her with a bachelorette party. We just told her to that is was going to be between 78-82 degrees and to bring her driver’s license. The first day was pretty mellow. We drove to Sacramento, [...]

June 21st, 2009
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Conquering the Reno-Tahoe Odyssey

Bridget and I finished the Reno-Tahoe Odyssey over the weekend, which may conclude our runs for the year. (Or at least we need a running break.)  And I think both of us felt that this run was a lot harder than the half marathons we’ve ran in the past. And while I wouldn’t sum up [...]

June 2nd, 2009
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