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Handy Man

Twenty-ten.

January 3, 2010
sleepy boy

I’ve absolutely loved the holiday time out. I don’t know about you, but this year we really tried to take life slow and Just Be. I’m in an age and stage of life that I adore. My husband is young, healthy, funny and a joy to have home on his days off. [...]

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Two-four-six-oh-one!

September 29, 2009
mean ol' Handy Man

What do you like to do on your wedding anniversary?
If you and your husband are total dorks, like me and Handy Man, you spend it experimenting with f-stops, soft boxes and Photoshop, photographing each other – not to look cozy and romantic – but like you should be holding up a plate with your number [...]

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In 60 more payments, she’ll be all mine.

August 25, 2009
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*sigh*
In case you were ever wondering what happens after your beloved van goes down, down, down as the flames get higher… and it burns, burns, burns like a ring of fire (name the song!), turns out your sentence reward is 60 months and this sweet baby:

Don’t get me wrong, she is shhhhhhhmmaaaaancy. GPS [...]

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No one can say I’m not a green driver.

August 16, 2009
car

I drove my car until it died. It’s not a pretty ending. And people can make fun of minivans all they want; I loved mine (may she rest in peace). But, instead of be-boping out of state like savvy little travelers, the boybarians and I barely made it half-away across the [...]

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Pssst… I have a secret.

July 31, 2009
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Come closer and I’ll tell you.
Not only is it Friday Fix-it day over at I ♥ Faces… but…

*sqquuueeee* Doesn’t he look like such a baby-face? Oh my goodness. This was HandyMan and me taken waayyyy back in 1999 – I can hardly believe it’s been that long. But… 10 [...]

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Picasso’s Smile

June 1, 2009

These weeks of this toothless smile are going so fast. I can hardly stand to think we won’t see this smile again. He just looks so adorable, I wanna box him up and keep him forever. Just. Like. This.

What stage do you miss the most?
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So, whadja do this weekend?

April 27, 2009

Friday was an oh my stinkin’ heck kind of day. Weatherman said it’d be 80 degrees. He was wrong.
It was ninety.
Degrees. 90 degrees. In Iowa. I almost fainted. I called school on account of the first warm day in 6 months and the boybarians and I played outside. [...]

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Every Picture Has a Story

April 21, 2009

Marsha, Amy & Darcy
When these were delivered to our room:

With this letter:

We decided to forgive the hotel guy who clearly had never heard of a possessive or rules of capitalization and go with it. I’m not sure if we were them:

or them:

But even though we are actually big ol’ geeks who were doing [...]

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Easter

April 14, 2009

Family. 5 hours of driving. Lots of food. Trouble’s first time participating in the egg hunt. Enough candy to get us through Halloween. Good times.

How was your Easter? What’s your favorite Easter tradition?

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7 Weeks of Meatless Fridays: Week 4

March 16, 2009

I’m late posting this one since we were out of town. Handy Man blogged a beautiful photo tribute to his grandfather, and we had a celebration of Grandpa’s nearly 92 years of life. Please stop by Handy Man’s blog to see it. Funerals aren’t ever the best circumstances, but for families as [...]

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Sqqquuuueeeeeeee!

February 14, 2009

I usually try not to start my posts with school-girl-like screaming. But this time, it cannot be avoided. Handy Man has done it again.
So, remember back in December when I paired up with The Midwest Homeschool Convention for a give-away?

Since then, I’ve been trying to figure out how to get there. [...]

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Talkin’ ‘Bout My Man

January 15, 2009

Don’t miss my give away! You can win a Picnik Premium membership.
So, I’ve been keeping a secret, too. Well, I’ve let the cat out of the bag with a few people. But now I’m going to tell you the secret.
Handy Man started a blog.
Shhhh! There. I told you. I’m [...]

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The School Room Reveal & Surprise!

January 3, 2009

Well, you got a sneak preview of the school room when I posted this photo of Handy Man opening his my-wife-rocks Christmas gift.

But the room wasn’t really put together there. So let’s back it up a little bit.
We moved into this house 2 years and 2 days ago. Exactly.
And the moment the painters [...]

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LWM3B Year In Review

December 31, 2008

As 2008 draws to a close, and I look on to 2009 with great anticipation. I offer you, the dear, sweet readers who still visit me… a year in review of lwm3b. Since this is a recap, my pics are sized to fit the old blog.
January: I publicly humiliated myself by coming forward [...]

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Hello… hello… hello?

December 30, 2008

Can anybody hear me? (hear me? hear me?) Um, hi mom.
After a week of a fantastic disappearing act, I have returned to my poor, neglected excuse for a blog.
So, Christmas. Christmas was… good. Busy, loud, fun, a little hard on my house, fun, noisy, not a lot of sleep [...]

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The beach changes color.

December 17, 2008

Have you ever seen all the colors of the beach? Here in land-locked Iowa we wouldn’t know. But I couldn’t believe the colors we caught. Handy Man dragged my bootie out of bed at 5 am – sans coffee – to witness the sunrise over the beach. At the time, I [...]

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Que bonita, Mexico!

December 15, 2008

Ack! I don’t even know where to begin. Maybe with the biggest surprise of them all:
sorry, photo is a little blurry. happens when we have to turn it over! That would be Handy Man…
… who wasn’t supposed to be in Mexico at all. He surprised me! Can you [...]

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What is that thing?!

December 6, 2008

Okay, okay! I hear you. Been a little slow on the email responses this week. Love me anyway, please?
I got more email about this photo than about any photo I have ever posted on LWM3B.

And most them said some version of, “What is that thing?”

You people are observant. I was trying [...]

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Wanna Make a Wager?

December 5, 2008

Who do you think won?
The 30-something daddy…

Or the 8-year-old boybarian?

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My Ol’ Man

October 28, 2008

Is it just me or is referring to the love of your life as “my ol’ man” or “my ol’ lady” the most absurd thing?
Is it a regional geographical thing?
Growing up, my grandparents called each other ‘Sam’ and ‘Sal’. It was very endearing. I was at least 10 before I realized those [...]

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Christmas in October!

October 7, 2008

I mentioned a few blogs ago how I quit my “day job” to spend more time with the boys and to move faster through my design queue. But with that last official paycheck, I really wanted to do something special for Handy Man. I think he forgets sometimes how much we adore him. [...]

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Why You Should Never Believe What You See On the Internet

August 17, 2008

Sheesh, that might be my longest title to date. I never said I wasn’t wordy. Or nerdy. Maybe a wordy nerd?
Anyway, so we went to meet some fab friends on Friday for a picnic (I’d totally send you to her blog at this point, but she doesn’t have one – *ahem* [...]

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The Boybarians Overtake the Science Center

July 29, 2008

I try to post chronologically, mostly because I use this blog to help me remember things in my ever-increasing age. Do you guys use your blogs for memory keeping? If you don’t… take 10 minutes and read a few of your archives. I love it! But this is from when I [...]

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The One That I Bore You With a Million Hot Air Balloon Pics

July 27, 2008

Sorry. It can’t be helped. Handy Man took nearly 900 pictures of the gorgeous skies at Indianola’s National Hot Air Balloon Classic. If you’re anywhere in the midwest, mark your calendars for ‘09. This one is worth the drive. We go every year as part of Handy Man’s birthday celebrations. [...]

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Wedded Bliss

June 9, 2008

Did you laugh? C’mon! Anything that starts with “wedded bliss” has got to be for s&g’s because anyone who’s actually been married for any length of time knows that “Wedded Bliss” only describes the ceremony. Sometimes the honeymoon.
Handy Man and I are celebrating our wedded bliss on this day – our anniversary. [...]

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"0 Days Tornado-Free"

June 6, 2008

You know those work sites that have signs up that say “151 days Accident-Free” to celebrate safety? Iowa needs ones of those that says “___ Days Tornado-Free”. Except ours would say 0. We’ve had tornadoes every day for almost a week. And we’ve got more tornado watches tonight, too. We [...]

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Reason #574638526 That Our Neighbors Love Us…

May 7, 2008

Mr. Perfectly Manicured Lawn stood in his lawn pretending to water his lawn and pick up every twig in his yard. Under his breath I’m sure he was cursing Handy Man’s name. He just can’t see the potential. Can you see it?
Did you know that if you do all that digging – [...]

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Friends ‘n’ Rock Gardens

May 3, 2008

These are my favorite pics from this week.
We had friends over and I’m not sure who had more fun, Handy Man or the 7 kids running through the house! Our friends are just perfectly Trouble’s size. I’ll let the pictures speak for themselves.

And guess what! Guess [...]

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Date Night with a Crooner

April 26, 2008

Handy Man and I had our first date night since before Trouble was in the NICU.
Seeing as how he is turning 5 in about a week, we were loooooooooong overdue for some couple time. So a few months ago, Handy Man surprised me with tickets to see my heart-throb Canadian crooner, Michael Bublé. [...]

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Another Round of "Ask LWM3B"

March 30, 2008

It’s been awhile since I’ve answered some of the reader emails. I guess if I don’t ever answer them, people are going to stop asking. So here are some I found while cleaning out my inbox yesterday…
(1.) You travel a lot. Where ya’ goin’ all these places, girlfriend?
Well, I don’t know [...]

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