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My Heart Challenge Wrap up! #myheartchallenge

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Aug 012016

Hi folks! Well it has been a month now since we were last updating about the My Heart Challenge, and it has been a busy month. We have been running all over. It has been good for the kids and their screen time to be away from the screens. I sit here now writing this after the challenge has finished, and I have some interesting thoughts about it. Those will be later. First, lets talk about what we have been doing this past month!

First up, was the Twilight Walk 5k. We went to Murray park with everyone from the Heart Challenge and covered 5 kilometers! Leatha and I sped walked, while Tristan and Cameron decided to run. Cameron did great and finished first in the family, while Tristan ended up Second! We thought that Tristan would have to be carried at the end, but he ran the whole way. They had a drawing afterwards where the kids won some fun prizes and I won the $50 gift card to Harmons, which I promptly used to buy the rest of the groceries for our camping trip.

The post Thanksgiving back to normal

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Dec 022013

Hello! Well folks, it is finally December. How was your late Thanksgiving weekend? Ours was pretty good. We realized that we are late getting Christmas set up this year, and now we are scrambling!

We did manage to get some shopping in this weekend as well as a visit to the zoo for Zoolights! That was a fun time to go to the zoo in the dark and see all of the lights that they have set up around. There were not many animals out, but they did have Santa and 2 of his reindeer! The kids enjoyed themselves. We had to go this weekend, looking at the weather we decided that a 30 degree drop for the next few days wasn’t going to be very good for the kids.

But, back to Thanksgiving. We spent the day just being with our family. We didn’t have anyone else come over and we didn’t go anywhere! It was kind of nice to have a quiet day with some football, the parade and the dog show. We did try something different this year though. We decided to barbecue the turkey on the grill instead of the oven.

There was good news and bad with that, the good news is that it cooked quickly and turned out really tasty. The bad news, it was done about an hour earlier than we had planned, so we had to hurry and get all of the sides done. I was really surprised how even it cooked, it worked better than last year in the oven. I have been using the grill for more baking and cooking lately leaving the oven alone.

All in all, it was a very nice day. Now the crazy starts, this month of December is already scheduled for most of the month. We have lots of things planned so I will be trying to get posts and pictures up as we do things.

I will get some zoo lights pictures up as soon as I can get them off of Brenda’s MP3 player.

Until next time,

-Justin

Thanksgiving and Christmas Time!

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Nov 272013

hello everyone. There has been a decidedly black hole here at 6 matthews.com. We have gone most of 2013 with few updates, and several draft’s of posts from last year. Pathetic on my part. Today I start over.

English: Saying grace before carving the turkey at Thanksgiving dinner in the home of Earle Landis in Neffsville, Pennsylvania (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Happy Thanksgiving! Yes it is Thanksgiving time again. There is so much that has happened over this past year to be thankful for. Amelia didn’t go to the hospital for anything this year, that is the most important. We are all relatively healthy and happy now and looking forward to our big meal.

After a fun Halloween season and party we have been “normal” in our house for about 3 weeks now and after this weekend, we will be bedecked with Christmas….Santa, trees, red and green, lights….the whole bit. More on that later. Just suffice it to say, the end of the year is nigh, and out family is doing pretty well.

Thanks to all of you who have helped with that over the year. You know who you are. We are thankful for you. Have a great Turkey Day.

-Justin

Lithograph, Home To Thanksgiving, published by Currier and Ives. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)