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Kaci | Austin Senior Portraits

Kaci is a softball pitcher for McNeil, but you’d never know when she’s gracefully dancing around the studio in her beautiful lavender dress. She definitely knows what colors she looks terrific in! Spring break is a busy time of year for softball players, but Kaci was looking forward to a little break with her family…

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Newness.

Over the past year we’ve been remixing, restructuring, re-enhancing, remodeling, revitalizing, and refreshing our business.  Any small business owner knows the importance of developing it to become the best that it can be.  In my opinion, a good business consistently blesses the consumers, the workers, the community, AND the owners.  Phew….what an exciting challenge! It’s…

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Happy (belated) Valentine’s Day!

Holiday/Birthday punctuality has never been my strong suit.  Ask anyone I know. I’m not proud of this.  I wish it were quite different, and I believe it’s changing.    My mom, however,  is the best at it, although she has yet to apply her sweet wish-sending skills to the blog. :(    In the real world, she can send me a package/gift/card…

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Pumpkin FOUND

I found a pumpkin!  TWO actually.  One was too big, one was too small.  So I embraced the opportunity to be resourceful.  Luckily, I have a hard time following recipes….the creative part of my brain ALWAYS wants to take over.   Here’s the Stuffed Pumpkin  I took the recipe-Christmas party my co-worker Denise hosts every year.  She…

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Anyone still have a pumpkin?

Help!!! I need a pumpkin ASAP!!! My lovely co-worker, Denise, is having her 24th (?) Annual Recipe Swaping Christmas Party Friday.  Imagine a (beautiful) household of 60 women coming together, each bringing their own recipe and dish for everyone to taste.  I love food and am SO looking forward to my 5th year here.   I…

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Happy (belated) Veteran’s Day

Sadly I don’t see holidays coming until they are upon me.  Often I find myself wishing people a “belated” this or that…something I’m working on correcting.   It happened once again with Veteran’s Day, which was last Thursday in case it slipped by you also.   Even though it’s almost a week later, I still wanted…

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Chile | Mountain air.

    Clickety-clack, clickety-clack woooshwooooshwhirrllllwshhhh, clickety-clack, clickety-clack, wooooshwooooohhhwhrrlllll Meet Rigo, local rodeo champion 5 years in a row….some years ago.  We clickety-clacked for 2 full days waaaay up into the Andes on horses.  Rigo is comfortable with silence, an attribute that’s easier said than done.  I’ve got Chile on my mind today.  I just ran across these pictures…

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More curiosities

One day I was curious what grub worms taste like.  Now I know.     And another day I was curious how one kill’s a chicken. And now I know and I hope I never need to do it again.  

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