Thanksgiving, Winter Fun, and Mitch's 25th!

I didn't realize how long it has been since I have written on here! Oops. Well, we haven't had too much exciting going on, but enough to post about. Get ready for picture overload! For Thanksgiving we went to our friends' house and celebrated with friends from Mitch's class at Columbus AFB. We had a really good time and got to eat tons of food while we watched football all...

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Bittersweet Tradition

I have had a really hard time sleeping lately, hence me still being awake at this hour. Usually I don't have any dreams, but every now and then I will have a streak of bad ones. They are typically super stressful and in some way forcing me to lose my mom or my dad all over again. I never feel rested when I wake up the next morning and I am usually thrown off my groove for the day. The past few days have been physically, mentally, and emotionally...

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Coffee and Pastels

This week Mitch was working during the evenings/nights, so we had some extra free time during the day. I have been going regularly to a local coffee shop with some friends here and it was finally time to introduce Mitch! The owners of the shop are a wonderful couple, Donald and Doris, that retired from the Air Force in Altus after Donald's last assignment. He was a flight...

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Winner Dinners!

If you want a healthy and tasty dinner, here are a couple solid choices :) The first is Zucchini Lasagna. I got the recipe from Skinnytaste.com, but modified it just a little. I don't eat red meat, so I use ground turkey. And I found a can of crushed tomatoes with basil since Walmart was out of fresh basil. Also, it was too cold to face the grill, so I oven roasted the zucchini...

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Veterans Day Weekend :)

I would like to start out by saying how grateful I am for everyone who has served and is serving this country as part of the military. I have thought a lot about how you can honestly appreciate many things in life you have no experience with (i.e. military service overseas, medical professionals in emergency situations, the miraculous process of creating ice cream ;), etc...),...

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