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Christmas at the Merricks
December 27, 2010 - Christmas at the Merricks was ALL about the nieces and nephews! Rochelle gave birth to two healthy, beautiful and VERY s...
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Kalemba Christmas
December 26, 2010 - My family celebrated Christmas on December 19 so we could all be together. Lee and I left California a little earlier th...
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Lunar Eclipse
December 21, 2010 - We were so fortunate to be in La Grande last night for the lunar eclipse. One perk of being in the middle of nowhere is...
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Friends Holiday Party 2010
December 13, 2010 - Each Christmas we gather at Rob & Amanda's for a night of catching up with old friends, great food and the best ornament...
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It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas!
December 09, 2010 - Ever since we bought our house I've been looking forward to decorating it for Christmas. The day after we got home from...
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Jason Larsen gets MARRIED!
December 07, 2010 - Our fabulous friend Jason Larsen got married this last weekend in Austin, Texas. We had been looking forward to this wee...
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Thanksgiving 2010
November 28, 2010 - Thanksgiving with my family is something I look forward to all year long! This year it was in Logan, Utah at my Aunt's h...
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Dressers! Finally!
November 22, 2010 - The gorgeous bedroom furniture we bought a year after we were married has been under the protective covering of blankets...
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Cuyahoga National Park
November 14, 2010 - Way back in July, Lee and I marked off another National Park from the list. When planning our trip to Ohio for Lani and...
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Bathrooms, Bathrooms, Bathrooms
November 08, 2010 - We have had MUCH too much talk about bathrooms at our house lately. Little did we know quite what redoing a bathroom cou...
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Pictures from Lani & Kyle's Wedding
November 02, 2010 - Lani and Kyle didn't hire a professional photographer on their wedding day - so Lee offered to fill in. I think he did a...
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Channel Islands Pictures are Posted
November 02, 2010 - We picked our favorite photos from our weekend in Channel Islands National Park and posted them to our gallery. Feel fre...
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Channel Islands National Park
October 26, 2010 - We spent a gorgeous weekend in Channel Islands National Park with Lani & Kyle and Joy & Collin. I'm SO glad we finally m...
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Boxes and More Boxes!
October 19, 2010 - We moved into the office! The walls are a little bare, but the computer is up and running and we're all situated! And it...
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Tomato Pie
October 12, 2010 - A couple of years ago I had my first taste of tomato pie. I fell in love with it instantly. So this summer, when we had...
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A Fantastic Weekend with My Parents
October 12, 2010 - My parents came to visit this weekend and we had such a great time. We loved every minute with them and wish they lived...
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What Happens When....
October 05, 2010 - you have a two inch gap under your front door. You get some of the biggest spiders you've EVER seen INSIDE your house. T...
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Settling In
October 04, 2010 - Our house is finally starting to feel like a home! We had guests in the guest room for a week, we fully moved into the s...
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Another One Bites the Dust
September 28, 2010 - After completing just two rooms in six months, we've now knocked out three more rooms in the last month! Having finished...
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Two More Rooms!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
September 24, 2010 - I can hardly believe that we have two more functioning rooms and a third just around the corner. I can't begin to tell y...
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2nd Annual Stanford Football Game
September 21, 2010 - This Saturday we were lucky enough to be invited to join our friends Jon and Cami Felt at the Stanford vs Wake Forest fo...
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Lots of Helping Hands
September 15, 2010 - My sisters coordinated a weekend when they could both come to visit, see our house and HELP. This last weekend (Septembe...
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Garrick & Kim Get Hitched
September 07, 2010 - My cousin Garrick and his beautiful girlfriend Kim got married in Wisconsin over Labor Day weekend. This event has been...
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Just Because
August 29, 2010 - Just because we are loving the gorgeous sunflowers that are lining our back fence
I also loved that we made articho...
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The Dining Room is FINALLY Finished!
August 29, 2010 - After a LONG month of prepping for and laying the hardwood -- we FINALLY finished the dining room!!! We can't begin to t...
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Annual Cousins Weekend at Bear Lake
August 19, 2010 - Before Spring even hits, my family has "Cousins Weekend" on the calendar! This year it was the weekend of August 12 - 15...
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Slow, Slow Progress
August 08, 2010 - Over the last month we've made what has felt like very little progress on the house. Granted, we traveled to Ohio for a...
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We ♥ Having a Garden
August 08, 2010 - We absolutely LOVE having a garden! We loved our herb garden instantaneously, and for the last month we've been able to...
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Lani & Kyle Tie the Knot - FINALLY!!!
July 25, 2010 - After over 8 years of dating and 3 years of being "engaged", Lani and Kyle finally got hitched. The wedding day was 7-17...
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House Update #? (I lost count)
July 11, 2010 - Nearly a month has passed since we've posted a progress report of our remodeling efforts. We've been awfully hard at wor...
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The Living Room - Finished Product
July 07, 2010 - Transforming the living room from it's original state to the state it's in today took several weeks. And although it has...
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Celebrating July 2 and July 4
July 06, 2010 - This year my birthday fell on the Friday before the long weekend, which meant I only had to work a half day! That was a...
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The Alameda County Fair
July 01, 2010 - Three things transpired over the course of the last 9 months that resulted in a trip to the Alameda County Fair. First,...
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Flashback: Oxford, England & the SWF
June 28, 2010 - I finally sat down long enough this weekend to sort through the pictures I took while I was in Oxford, England for work.
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A Weekend with Friends (6/26)
June 28, 2010 - Our fabulous friends Mike and Christina Harding were sealed to their daughter Abigail this weekend at the Oakland temple...
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Our First House Guests (6/17)
June 20, 2010 - Last week I got a call from Lee's grandmother asking if we would be in town this last week. They were road tripping from...
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We ♥ Our New Grill
June 20, 2010 - We've been wanting a new grill for a long time and the desire grew even more once we became home owners. We've had our e...
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Current State of Affairs & House Update
June 14, 2010 - At the end of this month, we will have been residents of Fremont for four months. Four months would generally be ample t...
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Two Pretty Perfect Years
June 12, 2010 - This last Monday, June 7 was our two year anniversary. The last two years have seemed to just fly by, yet we feel like w...
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And Then There Was Light (and a hallway!)
June 06, 2010 - Memorial Day Weekend was dedicated to finishing the hallway - the hallway that has consumed our lives for the month of M...
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Yosemite 2010
May 31, 2010 - We decided we would head to Yosemite a little later this year in efforts to arrive after the road to Glacier Point had b...
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Two Birthdays and a Graduation!
May 18, 2010 - What a fabulous weekend! We returned home from Idaho on Monday night after 2.5 fantastic days in Bruneau with the Merric...
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Happy Birthday LEE!
May 14, 2010 - Lee celebrates his 32nd birthday on Sunday, May 16. Since we will be celebrating Connor's high school graduation in Brun...
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Our First Garden
May 09, 2010 - By the time the sun set on Saturday evening (May 8), Lee and I had planted our first garden! It was so much more fun tha...
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Fabulous Friends
May 07, 2010 - Lee and I have been blessed with fabulous friends here in the Bay Area. Unfortunately for us, jobs have taken away two s...
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An Overdue House Update (May 2)
May 03, 2010 - Once our living room was painted and the carpet installed - progress on the house slowed WAY down. Between a long weeken...
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Anger erupts for a volcanic exile
April 22, 2010 - Blog by Gideon Rachman of the Financial Times (to which I definitely related!)
There are loads of us all over the world...
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And I'm Home!!
April 22, 2010 - After passing through four countries, riding eight trains, catching a few subways, two flights and 5 LONG days of travel...
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Day 2 of the Giro d'Europa
April 19, 2010 - Today was a LONG day. My "fast" train from Marseilles to Nice was over an hour late so I ended up taking the first train...
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My Personal Amazing Race
April 18, 2010 - I started my own version of the Amazing Race today. Only my race is against the ash cloud that has enveloped all of Euro...
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Plea for good wishes, good karma, clear skies
April 16, 2010 - Hello All-
I'm blogging from Oxford, England where I am stranded due to the continually erupting Icelandic volcano. Whe...
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Mini House Update (#5)
April 12, 2010 - The last couple of weeks have been super slow on the home front. It's as if we ran out of energy gearing up for the carp...
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Easter with Grandma Katie
April 07, 2010 - This last fall after we went to visit my cutest Grandma Katie, I was determined to not let 18 months go by between my vi...
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We ALMOST Have a Living Room
March 28, 2010 - Update for Week of March 21 - 28
We are so close to having a living room that I am beyond excited. I just wish I could...
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Perks and Progress (March 14 - 20)
March 22, 2010 - This last week was a productive one! We felt like we saw visible progress and that feels so good! We've been enjoying so...
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Week #4 (March 7 - 13)
March 14, 2010 - Lee and I started out the week exhausted and as a result we didn't get quite as much accomplished as we would have liked...
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EHMO Week 3
March 02, 2010 - Week 3 - February 28 - March 6
We've been in our house a full week now and we haven't gotten any closer to feeling sett...
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Extreme Home Makeover Week 1 & 2
March 02, 2010 - Lee and I certainly have our work cut out for us with our new house! The projects seem endless. Over the next several mo...
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Our week in Kauai
March 02, 2010 - We had a fantastic week in Kauai. We spent the first three days on the North Shore in Princeville and 5 or 6 days with m...
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Hawaii Volcanoes National Park & The Big Island
February 23, 2010 - Our time on the Big Island was even shorter than our time on Maui. We wanted to give the majority of our time to Kauai,...
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Haleakala National Park & Maui
February 22, 2010 - February appears to be the month in which Lee and I take our extended vacations. This year we headed to Hawaii for a cou...
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Day 1 of Home Ownership
January 31, 2010 - The first of our laundry list of projects for the house is to scrape off the "popcorn" ceilings. Our goal is to remove t...
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And We're Home Owners!
January 30, 2010 - Just when we thought there was no way we were going to pull off everything required to close by 5pm on January 29th -- w...
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Oh The Drama
January 28, 2010 - The last couple of weeks have been two of the most stressful and anxiety filled weeks of my life. I had no idea attempti...
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San Jose Sharks
January 11, 2010 - When I was in elementary school we watched a LOT of hockey. We lived too far away from an ice rink to watch any professi...
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The Bruneau Sand Dunes
January 06, 2010 - Believe it or not, Bruneau is home to the tallest single-structured sand dune in North America -- 470 feet high. I've be...
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