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Joshua on December 10th, 2009

This year we got our Christmas tree at Home Depot. Which makes me a little sad because I really enjoy the hours of agonizing over which of a thousand identical trees is the just the right one. Unfortunately the trees in Texas are terrible and Costco wasn’t selling, so we went to the hardware store. […]

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Joshua on November 23rd, 2009

This Sunday after being cooped up inside for a few days because of rain we had to get Redmond outside to burn off some energy. The best place to do that near our house is Walnut Creek Park.  Redmond ran and played with a few other dogs and we hiked around.  And well, let’s just […]

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Joshua on November 7th, 2009

This Summer the City of Austin had a program to give each household up to three free low-flow toilets assuming you met certain conditions: age of toilet, water usage, City water customer, etc. Well we qualified and picked up our three free toilets. Now normally, swapping out a toilet should take maybe an hour or […]

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Amber on November 4th, 2009

This afternoon Wesley wanted us to explore  the backyard to rescue animals.  He was pretending he was Diego, with rescue pack and all.  Then Jillian said she was Dora.  So Wesley decided I would be Diego’s Mom.  We were able to rescue: a T-Rex, a snake family, a baby squirrel, a skunk, & green baby […]

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